RARE SEALED Miami Valley Council Ohio MILTON CANIFF Neckerchief Boy Scouts BSA for Sale

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RARE SEALED Miami Valley Council Ohio MILTON CANIFF Neckerchief Boy Scouts BSA For Sale

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RARE SEALED Miami Valley Council Ohio MILTON CANIFF Neckerchief Boy Scouts BSA:
$26.75

RARE SEALEDMiami Valley Council OhioMILTON CANIFFNeckerchiefBoy Scouts BSA
Rare Miami Valley Council neckerchiefwith art by renowned comic artist Milton Caniff.This neckerchief is in MINT SEALED condition!
ABOUT MILTON CANIFF:Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (/kəˈnɪf/; February 28, 1907 – April 3, 1988)was an American cartoonist famous for theTerry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.
BiographyCaniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. He was an Eagle Scout and arecipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.Caniff did cartoons for local newspapers while studying atStivers High School (now Stivers School for the Arts) in Dayton Ohio.At Ohio State University, Caniff joined the Sigma Chi fraternityand later illustrated for The Magazine of Sigma Chi andThe Norman Shield (the fraternity\'s pledgeship/reference manual).Graduating in 1930, Caniff began at the Columbus Dispatch wherehe worked with the noted cartoonists Billy Ireland and Dudley Fisher,but Caniff\'s position was eliminated during the Great Depression.Caniff related later that he had been uncertain of whether to pursueacting or cartooning as a career and that Ireland said,\"Stick to your inkpots, kid, actors don\'t eat regularly.\"
He died on April 3, 1988, and was buried in the Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York.
Caniff was one of the founders of the National Cartoonists Societyand served two terms as its president, 1948 and 1949. He alsoreceived the Society\'s first Cartoonist of the Year Award in 1947for work published during 1946, which included both Steve Canyonand Terry and the Pirates as well. Caniff would be namedCartoonist of the Year again, receiving the accompanying trophy,the Reuben, in 1972 for 1971, again for Steve Canyon.He was awarded an Inkpot Award in 1974.
He was inducted into the comic book industry\'s Will EisnerComic Book Hall of Fame in 1988. He received the NationalCartoonists Society Elzie Segar Award in 1971, the Award forStory Comic Strip in 1979 for Steve Canyon, the Gold Key Award(the Society\'s Hall of Fame) in 1981, and the NCS has since namedthe Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in his honor.
In 1977, the Milton Caniff Collection of papers and original artbecame the foundation for what is known presently as theBilly Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Covering 696 cubic feet (19.7 m3),the collection fills 526 boxes, plus 12,153 art originals and59 oversized items. In addition to the original artwork,the collection includes Caniff\'s personal and business papers,correspondence, research files, photographs, memorabilia,merchandise, realia, awards, audio/visual material and scrapbooks.
In 1987, he was made the first honorary member of theEighth Air Force Historical Society in recognition for the\"Male Call\" strip that he did for Stars and Stripes during World War II.
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