Doc Winner

Charles H. Winner (December 18, 1885 – August 12, 1956), better known as Doc Winner, was an American cartoonist, notable for his comic strips Tubby and Elmer, plus his contributions to Thimble Theatre, Barney Google and other King Features strips.

His drawing skills soon led him to nearby Pittsburgh, as he recalled: He drew sports cartoons for two years at the Pittsburgh Post, succeeding Billy DeBeck, and became that newspaper's political cartoonist in 1910, relocating to the Harrisburg Patriot in 1914 and the Newark Star-Eagle in 1917.

Winner's strip Elmer, which ran from 1926 to 1956, was based on the friends of his youth, as he recalled, "A great many of the stunts they do are ones we either did or tried to do when we were kids.

At the time of E. C. Segar's illness and death, he was a ghost artist on Thimble Theatre during 1938 and 1939, continuing on some of the strip's Sunday pages in 1940.

Winner lived with his wife, the former Agnes Reid, and two daughters in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.