J. R. Williams

James Robert Williams was a Canadian cartoonist who signed his work J. R. Williams. He was best known for his long-run daily syndicated panel Out Our Way. As noted by Coulton Waugh in his 1947 book The Comics, anecdotal evidence indicated that more Williams' cartoons were clipped and saved than were other newspaper comics. A newspaper promotion of 1930 compared him to poets Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley.

30 March 1888

Born on the same birth day (30 March): Archie Birkin • Christopher Bowman • Chunseong • Coen de Koning • Erhard Milch • Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann • István Rózsavölgyi • Julie Richardson • Katrine Lunde • Kwok Kin Pong • Mikio Oda • Naomi Sims • Nicolae Rădescu • Ricardo Osorio • Tom Sharpe • Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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