Pete the Tramp is an American comic strip by Clarence D. Russell (1895–1963) which was distributed by King Features Syndicate for more than three decades, from January 10, 1932 to December 22, 1963.

[1] Howard Eugene Wilson, in the Harvard Educational Review, described the strip's title character as "a hobo with a gentleman's instincts.

Russell's work for Judge included cartoons of a homeless man who was given the name Pete the Tramp when he was syndicated to newspapers beginning January 10, 1932.

Pete's strip was popular during the Depression and still maintained reasonable circulation after that period's end made his situation less excusable.

[6] During World War II, Russell and Otto Soglow drew their characters at kids' bond rallies in Albany, New York and elsewhere.