Cliff Sterrett
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Cliff Sterrett (born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota) was a comic strip cartoonist who created Polly and Her Pals.
The strip was published in the New York Journal, with Sterrett handing over the daily strip to others, amongst them Paul Fung and Vernon Greene, in order to concentrate on the colored Sunday strip from which Sterrett retired in 1958. Sterrett's work was influenced by the abstract art of the times, in the early 1920's incorporating "striking patterns of abstraction much in the style of cubism and surrealism." (Comics as Culture by M. Thomas Inge) Coulton Waugh noted this as being somewhat innovative, stating that such absorption in Sterrett's style "appeared in Polly long before modern art was accepted by American art critics."
