Darrell McClure

McClure was born in Ukiah, California, where his mother was the painter Ethel Jamison Docker.

[2] In New York, he took a job at King Features Syndicate in 1923 and studied under George Bridgman at the Art Student's League.

During the height of Little Annie Rooney's popularity, McClure built a house in Greenwich, Connecticut, home to many famous cartoonists, and he lived and worked there from 1939 to 1947.

After his wife died in the 1940s, he moved to Florida, where he remarried a Navy widow in 1955, gaining a daughter and three grandchildren.

In May and June 1956, the couple traveled in McClures' yacht from Fort Lauderdale to Connecticut, with stopovers at Charleston, Norfolk and Annapolis.

Darrell McClure at the San Francisco Press Club in 1964.
Darrell McClure's Little Annie Rooney (October 21, 1964)