{"id":1776,"date":"2015-12-10T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T19:40:10","slug":"mickie-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2015\/12\/10\/mickie-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickie Says …"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mickie<\/a>
Crossville Chronicle. March 30, 1921.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Mickie Says<\/em> cartoon panel was created by Charles Sughroe and syndicated through the Western Newspaper Union from 1918. Each week, the cartoon\u2019s young protagonist – a \u201cprinter\u2019s devil<\/a>” at a small town newspaper – reminded readers to support their hometown newspaper in various ways such as keeping their subscription up to date, taking out ads in the paper, or reporting local news.<\/p>\n

The character later appeared in his own comic strip – Mickie the Printer’s Devil – <\/em>which follows the daily goings-on in a small-town newspaper printing office. Our friends over at the Vermont Newspaper Digitization Project highlighted the comic strip in an article on their website – check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mickie’s creator, cartoonist Charles Sughroe, had plenty of experience to draw on having worked as a printer’s devil himself, at his father’s newspaper the Stockton Herald-News<\/em> in Illinois. Following his boyhood experience in the print office, Sughroe spent four years at the Chicago Art Institute before working as a free-lance commercial artist, and later gaining national recognition for his Mickie cartoon. An article in trade journal, American Printer<\/a><\/em>, in 1922 says, “Every Mickie cartoon is founded on some actual happening, so it is not overdrawn.” Some of Sughroe’s other comic panels and strips – People of our Town and Town Pests – can be found by searching Chronicling America<\/em>‘s newspapers (for example, this page<\/a> from the Leavenworth Echo, Wa., features both).<\/p>\n

\"People<\/a>
Crossville Chronicle. June 29, 1921.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More information on Mickie <\/em>and Sughroe is available at The Stripper’s Guide<\/a> – <\/em>a comprehensive website with tons of information about the history of the American newspaper comic.<\/p>\n

\"Charles<\/a>
American Printer. July 5, 1922.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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