In or around 1931, the Chicago Tribune produced a promotional film called From Trees to Tribunes about how their newspaper was produced each day. We have here an excerpt from said promotional film. It's the segment about various comic strip artists who were then producing strips that ran in the Tribune and were syndicated by the company. Some of them — like Harold Gray of Little Orphan Annie and Gus Edson of The Gumps — you may have heard of. Many of them are so obscure, even I never knew of them.
Thanks to Anthony Tollin for telling me about this. I wonder how many of these guys actually drew their strips each day wearing a suit and tie. If they worked in an office at the Tribune offices, they probably did…