Nowadays, the Little Orphan Annie comics that Harold Gray drew ... than any child on the planet,” Jay Maeder, the last to ink ...

The final panels of the comic strip had Annie ... the artist who came up with the cartoon idea for the newspaper comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" in 1924, was from Kankakee.

Gray penned “Little Orphan Annie” while living ... 15 minutes until the last tour at 4 p.m. of the home at 215 S. Stewart Ave., where Gray created the comic strip in 1924.

Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque.

Based on the 1924 comic strip created by Harold Gray, the musical follows the adventures of little orphan Annie as she gets adopted by Billionaire Oliver Warbucks for the Christmas holiday.