Little Orphan Annie

Little Orphan Annie was about Annie an outgoing young girl who escaped from her orphanage and set out for adventures with her doll Emily Marie and a little later in the comic her dog named Sandy. Little Orphan Annie is the oldest comic I have read so far, Harold Gray created it in the 1920’s way before the play and the movie and all that stuff. Back in the 1920’s comics were a little different than they are now they were printed in a much larger format sometimes one strip would cover the whole page, and the strips were like TV shows are to us now people would follow the adventures for months. Little Orphan Annie wasn’t your everyday little girl (this may have been because Harold Gray was first intending the character to be a little boy) she was a crime fighter she was always set out to find no good people, politicians and gangsters to stop. I have to say Little Orphan Annie has a lot of history and I really enjoyed reading about it and about Harold Gray. But I didn’t find the comic very entertaining or humorous although Im not sure that it was trying too hard to be funny, the comic seems to be very political and seemed to be targeted towards an older audience and that may have been what turned me off to it.