His interest of the Boy Scouts would lead him to become an Eagle Scout. In 1945 he would also create “Kit Cricket”, the mascot of Cricket Hollar, a camp of the Boy Scouts under the jurisdiction of the Dayton-Miami Valley Council. (Carillon Historical Park)

In my five years [at OSU], I have run up a debt I will never liquidate. But I shall try, even though there can be no price tag on brain surgery from within. (library.osu.edu)

Caniff’s ties with this mountain community go back to 1948 when it was decided to change the name of Squirrel Gulch to Steve Canyon. Steve Canyon actually is a member of the Liberty Bell Group – officially the 327 Troop Carrier Squadron. Caniff applied for Steve’s membership when the squadron was formed in the fall of 1949. (historicidahosprings.com)

A menorah with seven branches, or seven lamps, has several symbolic meanings, most prominently representing the seven days of creation, the seven classical planets, and the original seven-branched lampstand of the Temple in Jerusalem. Unlike the nine-branched menorah used for Hanukkah, the seven-branched version is a symbol of Judaism in general, representing completeness and divine presence. (Assistant)

In 1941 Caniff precipitated a national incident by permitting one of his characters the almost unheard-of comic-strip prerogative of dying. The victim in this case was one Raven Sherman who might be around today, since Caniff had not always planned to get rid of her. But as he says now, with a faint trace of ghoulishness, 'I decided it was time to let somebody die.' Caniff not only killed Miss Sherman in cold syndicated blood, but he duped his readers while he arranged her death. Originally, Raven had not been a very pretty girl, and for months Caniff had worked to prepare her for her ultimate demise, gradually softening her sharp chin and redoing her hair. By the time she finally died, Raven was exactly as beautiful as sacrificial heroines are supposed to be, and only a handful of readers suspected what Caniff had been doing to them. (encyclopedia.com)

Slipping a bit of light erotica into the back pages of the buttoned-down newspaper medium was something of a sport among many comic strip artists throughout the last century. Milton Caniff understood the better than anyone the potential here for serving the needs of a daily adventure strip while also pushing the boundaries of the conservative editorial propriety of national syndication. (panelsandprose.com)

Al Capp may have been the best at skirting official prurience with his bevy of buxom beauties of Dogpatch. His ability to make sexiness cartoonish yet genuinely titillating helped define erotic caricature for generations of illustrators. in Esquire, But as we see here, cheesecake always had a place even in the most family oriented media if artists could find ways of making it incidental to larger narrative aims. Voyeurism, properly handled, is one fetish that Americans have always been ready to mainstream. (panelsandprose.com)

Although he never explicitly said she was lesbian (since admitting the existence of gay people in the 30's was a great way to get your strip dropped from every paper in the country), Milton Caniff made it pretty clear. The French accent, monocle and short hair were all lesbian stereotypes at the time. (IHad360K)

Steve Canyon went to Vietnam three times, and in 1967 encountered an obnoxious war protester named Felicia Lymph who distinctly resembled Jane Fonda. Caniff’s hard-core fans loved it, but for the first time, Caniff was out of step with public opinion in his continued support of the Vietnam War and his pro-military stance. Readership fell and a significant number of newspapers dropped the strip. (airandspaceforces.com)

The comic form is still considered by many to be a mass medium with little redeeming quality warranting no serious critical attention. In fact, it's often been considered destructive, especially for the adolescent readers at which many comics in the U.S. market are often aimed. As early as 1910, "vigorous campaigns were waged by women's clubs, religious organizations and magazines to eliminate the comic supplement from the newspaper"  This view, which also became a major issue in the 1950s, persists in the public arena even today. (wcgcomics.blogspot.com)

In 1984, for instance, an article in Psychology Today discussed the "defeat, cynicism and despair" that seemed to permeate adult comic books An overview of the history of the field reveals, however, that comics, like any other popular form of entertainment, has produced its share of true artists as well as hacks. (wcgcomics.blogspot.com)

Limbaugh marries for the fourth time while being serenaded by he most famously gay singer in the world, the foolish consistency is consistently foolish. (Michael Conniff, Contributor)

Former President Bill Clinton did not make the admission in 1993, but rather during his 1992 presidential campaign. While running for the Democratic nomination, he stated that he had experimented with marijuana "a time or two" while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England in the late 1960s. (Assistant)

Milton Caniff was a comic strip artist who had a significant influence on Rush Limbaugh. In his youth, Limbaugh looked up to Caniff, and the cartoonist's work was a factor in Limbaugh's own career path. Limbaugh was an avid reader of Caniff's comic strips, including Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon. Caniff's success as a cartoonist inspired Limbaugh to pursue his own career in communications. (Assistant)

His papers and artwork became one of the founding collections of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, named for Caniff’s good friend and fellow Columbus Dispatch cartoonist. (library.osu.edu)