Larry_Wright_(cartoonist)

Larry Wright (cartoonist)

Larry Wright (cartoonist)

American cartoonist

Larry Wright (February 2, 1940 - May 21, 2017)[1] was an American cartoonist, known for his conservative editorial cartoons published in The Detroit News from 1976 to 2009.[2]

He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1980 and 1984.[3] He was also the author of the comic strips Wright Angles and Kit 'N' Carlyle. The latter, about a woman named Carlyle who owns a cat named Kit, was introduced in 1980.[4][5]

Wright died on May 21, 2017, at the age of 77.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Wright, Larry, 1940-2017". id.loc.gov. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
  2. [2]
    Millikin, Eric (January 13, 2010). "Talking lifestyles of the semi-retired editorial cartoonist with Larry Wright". The Comics Journal.
  3. [3]
    "Editorial Cartoons". National Cartoonists Society. Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
  4. [4]
    Giordano, Rick (1981). The Comics Journal. Comics Journal, Inc. p. 23.
  5. [5]
    "Larry Wright's Kit 'N' Carlyle Celebrates 30 Years". 30 November 2010.
  6. [6]
    Henning, Lynn; Ramirez, Charles E. (May 22, 2017). "Former Detroit News cartoonist Wright dies at 77". The Detroit News.


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