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Buz Sawyer was a popular
comic strip created by
Roy Crane that ran from
November 1,
1943 to
1989. The last strip signed by Crane was dated
21 April 1979.
John "Buz" Sawyer was initially a fighter pilot for the
U.S. Navy in the
Pacific Theatre of
World War II. A chivalrous adventurer, he became a troubleshooter for an oil company when the war ended but rejoined the Navy in the 1950s.
Roy Crane was one of the innovators of the adventure comic strip.
Wash Tubbs began in 1924 as a humorous story about the romantic adventures of Washington Tubbs, but increasingly Tubbs became involved in exciting adventures in exotic places. With the creation of the popular soldier of fortune Captain Easy in 1929, the strip became, along with
Tarzan of the Apes and
Buck Rogers, one of the first adventure strips. However, Crane was an employee of the
Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate, which owned the rights to the Tubbs and Easy characters. Crane approached
King Features Syndicate with an idea for a new strip, and when they offered him ownership, he abandoned
Wash Tubbs and
Captain Easy strips in 1943, giving full concentration to launching
Buz Sawyer.
Roscoe Sweeney, who was Sawyer's comic-relief sidekick, largely disappeared from the dailies after the war. Instead, Sweeney became the central character of the
Buz Sawyer Sunday strip, a comedy about rural and suburban life. Beginning in the late 1940s, Crane turned the writing and drawing chores for that strip over to cartoonist
Clark Haas, who was a pioneer jet pilot. Later,
Al Wenzel did the Sunday strip.
Eventually, Crane turned most of the writing and drawing of the daily strip over to assistants
Edwin Granberry and
Hank Schlensker, who began signing it after Crane’s death in
1977. When they retired a decade later,
John Celardo drew the daily until it was discontinued in 1989.
Episode guide
Chronology of the daily strip's early years
- 1943
- 1944
- 1945
- Mr. Flint
- Civilian Life
- Sultry’s Tiger
- 1946
- The Mad Baron
- Salvaduras (daily and Sunday)
- 1947
- Africa
- Vacation With Christy
- Thursty Collins
- Harry Sparrow
- 1948
- Miss Freeze
- The Search for Buz
- The Wedding Present
- 1949
- African Honeymoon
- Monkey Business
- Revolution
- 1950
- Buz Alone
- Diana
- William Shakespeare
- 1951
- Wish Jones
- Alaska
- Doldrums
- Zazarof
- 1952
- The Hawks Boys
- Locusts
- Panazuela Oil
- 1953
- Island of the Lotus Eaters
- Christy’s Baby
- Test Pilot
- 1954
- 1955
- Paint
- Mystery Plane
- All Washed Up
Family tree
John “Buz” Sawyer
Christy Jameson – his fiance, later wife
Pepper Sawyer– their son, named for Edwin Granberry's great nephew, William R. "Pepper" Chalker
Lucky Sawyer – Buz’s brother, musician
Awards
Roy Crane won the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1950 and their Story Comic Book Award in 1965 for the strip.
Reprints
The daily Buz Sawyer has been reprinted by Comics Art Showcase, Dragon Lady Press and Comics Revue. Manuscript Press has published two books collecting the daily strip from the beginning. Only a few scattered Sundays have ever been reprinted. In June 2006, King Features' website, Daily Ink
began running Buz Sawyer dailies from the beginning.
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