He’s been called “The Rembrandt of the Comic Strip” and the “Greatest Generation’s Cartoonist-in-Chief.” No comics artist has so heavily influenced his medium and no cartoonist has seen more imitators than Milton Arthur Caniff, the creator of Terry and the Pirates, Male Call, and Steve Canyon. He’s been called “The Rembrandt of the Comic Strip” and the “Greatest Generation’s Cartoonist-in-Chief.” No comics artist has so heavily influenced his medium and no cartoonist has seen more imitators than Milton Arthur Caniff, the creator of Terry and the Pirates, Male Call, and Steve Canyon.
Things really begin to happen in the early ’40s. Terry Lee grows up to be a Flight Officer in the Air Force and, played against the background of a World War, takes on considerable dimension. Now Caniff was in his element. Terry was no longer a mere comic strip. It was a war novel! -- Jim Steranko