John Nesbitt's Passing Parade was a popular series of mini-documentaries that ran in movie theaters back when movie theaters ran shorts. This one — entitled "People on Paper" — features newspaper cartoonists who were famous when the film came out in 1945: H.H. Knerr, Bud Fisher, Fred Lasswell, Frank King, Chester Gould, Dick Calkins, Milton Caniff, Chic Young, Raeburn Van Buren, Ham Fisher, Hal Foster, Harold Gray and Al Capp. There's an impressive list of men who were either really, really good at drawing their comic strips or really, really good at hiring someone good to draw their comic strips…
