Notable people · Cartoonist · Artist
Paul Robinson
Born in Kenton, Robinson drew the comic strip Etta Kett, which began in December 1925 and ran in more than fifty newspapers for almost fifty years.
At a glance
- Born
- 1898-06-19
- Died
- 1974-09-21
- Known as
- Cartoonist, Artist
- Organizations
- Bray Productions
Life story
Paul Robinson was born June 19, 1898, in Kenton, Ohio. He started out as a railway clerk, then around 1919 joined the Bray animation studio in New York.
His comic strip Etta Kett debuted in December 1925 and ran in more than fifty American newspapers for nearly five decades, until November 1974. He also drew a companion strip, The Love-Byrds, above it.
He lived in Essex Fells, New Jersey, and died at Mountainside Hospital on September 21, 1974, at age 76, two months before the strip ended.
Timeline
What Paul is known for
- Created Etta Kett (1925-1974)
- Also drew the companion strip The Love-Byrds
- Etta Kett (1925-1974)
- The Love-Byrds
Ohio places
Where Paul Robinson was born, lived, worked and is remembered, with the ZIP code, town and county pages for each.
- Born: Kenton, Hardin County ZIP 43326 · Kenton · Hardin County
Further reading
Sources
Confidence. Medium: the main facts were confirmed, but some details (often an address or ZIP code) were not.
- Wikipedia: Paul Robinson (cartoonist) birth in Kenton 1898, Etta Kett 1925, death 1974