Today in Comics History, July 14: Happy birthday, Donald Meek!

Born on this day in 1878: Hollywood actor Donald Meek (You Can't Take It with You, Stagecoach, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, My Little Chickadee, State Fair, The Thin Man Goes Home and lots more)! And he was a cartoonist, apparently! Sadly, I can't find any of his artwork, but here's him by someone else — fantastic caricaturist Bud Thompson!


from "Star Flashes" in Heroic Comics #17 (Eastern Color, March 1943); text, pencils, inks, and letters by Bud Thompson
Say, was Donald meek?


from the trailer of A Woman's Face (MGM, 1941), screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and Elliot Paul, directed by George Cukor
He most certainly was not!


from "Star Flashes" in Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics #1 (Eastern Color, August 1940); text, pencils, inks, and letters by Bud Thompson
Happy birthday, Mister Meek! Why, I'd like to shake your hand...OW NOT SO HARD