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Darrell McClure was born on 25 February, 1903, is an American cartoonist. Discover Darrell McClure's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
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Born 25 February 1903
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Date of death 27 February, 1987
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Timeline

1890

The strip took its name from an 1890 song by Michael Nolan.

McClure was born in Ukiah, California, where his mother was the painter Ethel Jamison Docker.

At age nine, McClure moved with his family to San Francisco, where he went to art school at night, doing his first professional jobs at age 14.

He was 17 when he began an apprenticeship in animated cartoons, and he studied at the California School of Fine Arts.

After work in logging camps as a lumberjack, he was a sailor on commercial freighters in the Pacific, eventually traveling to New York City on a freighter.

1903

Darrell Craig McClure (February 25, 1903 – February 27, 1987), was an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for his work on the comic strip Little Annie Rooney from 1930 to 1966.

1920

In the late 1920s, his first strips, Vanilla and the Villains and Hard Hearted Hickey, appeared, followed by Donnie.

1923

In New York, he took a job at King Features Syndicate in 1923 and studied under George Bridgman at the Art Student's League.

1924

He became a contributor to Yachting in 1924, married that same year and moved to Connecticut.

1930

In 1930, he took over Little Annie Rooney (except for Sundays) from two previous artists for the New York Journal.

1939

During the height of Little Annie Rooney's popularity, McClure built a house in Greenwich, Connecticut, home to many famous cartoonists, and he lived and worked there from 1939 to 1947.

During World War II, he served part time with the Coast Guard.

1940

After his wife died in the 1940s, he moved to Florida, where he remarried a Navy widow in 1955, gaining a daughter and three grandchildren.

1956

In May and June 1956, the couple traveled in McClures' yacht from Fort Lauderdale to Connecticut, with stopovers at Charleston, Norfolk and Annapolis.

Later, they relocated to San Francisco, where he spent time sailing and painting.

1966

As continuity adventure strips became less popular, McClure and Little Annie Rooney retired in 1966.

1987

He died in Talmage, California in 1987.

He painted many sailing scenes, especially in the Bahamas.

His paintings and drawings are in galleries, private collections and museums, including the Maritime Museum in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

McClure never lost his love of the sea, living at times on his 45 ft yacht, Small Wonder and illustrating for Yachting.