Greene was born in Battle Ground, Washington. He worked for Beaver Engraving in Portland in the thirties and was a political cartoonist for one of Portland's newspapers in the same approximate period. He ghosted many comic strips, notably BRINGING UP FATHER which he took over when George McManus died. He continued the strip until his death in 1965. Perhaps fifteen years ago Greene's son and daughter went to a local comic store looking for some comics with his work in them. Their story was that when he died their mother disposed of all of his stuff and they had not seen much or any of his labors. They left their phone number with the store owner in case something did turn up. When I heard about their visit I asked for their number as I had a few original pages of a Greene romance story done in the early fifties for Standard. I thought that I would gift them one of the pages just for the opportunity to meet with them and learn more about their talented father. The big dope store owner said he lost their number...
I was once sort of almost married to a girl named Greene, who was from somewhere in Washington, so I feel it's my almost filial duty to accept those pages on behalf of the family.
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Greene was born in Battle Ground, Washington. He worked for Beaver Engraving in Portland in the thirties and was a political cartoonist for one of Portland's newspapers in the same approximate period. He ghosted many comic strips, notably BRINGING UP FATHER which he took over when George McManus died. He continued the strip until his death in 1965. Perhaps fifteen years ago Greene's son and daughter went to a local comic store looking for some comics with his work in them. Their story was that when he died their mother disposed of all of his stuff and they had not seen much or any of his labors. They left their phone number with the store owner in case something did turn up. When I heard about their visit I asked for their number as I had a few original pages of a Greene romance story done in the early fifties for Standard. I thought that I would gift them one of the pages just for the opportunity to meet with them and learn more about their talented father. The big dope store owner said he lost their number...
I was once sort of almost married to a girl named Greene, who was from somewhere in Washington, so I feel it's my almost filial duty to accept those pages on behalf of the family.
Could you link this first post to the rest of "the shadow comic strip" posts?
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