Here's a longer obit on Bud Blake, creator of the newspaper strip, Tiger. It's in the New Jersey Star-Ledger and you may have to answer a few questions to get to it.
I wonder if King Features — or any of the older syndicates — would consider setting up a subscription website with full runs of their older, out-of-print strips. There are sites where you can log in and read current strips and occasionally a classic or three…but those only give you a day at a time. There's something like 38 years worth of Tiger and even more of some other strips. No one will ever put out books of all that material so why not a website? Or CD-Roms? I prefer reading such material on paper but since no one's going to issue The Complete Tiger, why not give us the chance to buy it in digital format?