John H. Striebel was an American illustrator and comic strip

Comic strip

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 artist who was best known for the newspaper strip Dixie Dugan, which was scripted by J. P. McEvoy. The two met when they were college freshmen at the University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

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Born in Bertrand, Michigan

Bertrand Township, Michigan

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, Striebel began working at the age of 14 as a political cartoonist for the South Bend Daily News, receiving recognition as the youngest front-page cartoonist in the country. After graduating from Notre Dame, he moved to Chicago where he became an advertising and fashion illustrator for the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

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. In addition to magazine covers, he also illustrated Robert Quillen's syndicated feature, "Aunt Het".

Magazines and comic strips

He illustrated for magazines, including Liberty

Liberty (1924-1950)

Liberty was a weekly, general-interest magazine, originally priced at five cents and subtitled, "A Weekly for Everybody." It was launched in 1924 by McCormick-Patterson, the publisher until 1931, when it was taken over by Bernarr Macfadden until 1942. At one time it was said to be "the second...

, and a comic strip, Pantomime, which ran for eight years. While doing "Pantomime" he also illustrated McEvoy's magazine serial, Show Girl.

After work on The Potters, a feature by McEvoy, he moved to Woodstock, New York

Woodstock, New York

Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 5,884 at the 2010 census, down from 6,241 at the 2000 census.The Town of Woodstock is in the northern part of the county...

 in 1923 to study painting with Henry Lee McFee

Henry Lee McFee

Henry Lee McFee was a pioneer American cubist painter and a prominent member of the Woodstock artists colony.-Biography:...

 and Andrew Dasburg

Andrew Dasburg

Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".-Biography:...

. He sometimes drew Woodstock into his strips as a town named Stoodwock.

In October 1929, he began illustrating Dixie Dugan, created and written by McEvoy. It was distributed by the McNaught Syndicate

McNaught Syndicate

The McNaught Syndicate was an American newspaper syndicate founded in 1922. It was established by Virgil Venice McNitt and Charles V. McAdam. Its best known contents were the columns by Will Rogers and O. O. McIntyre, the Dear Abby letters section and comic strips, including Joe Palooka and...

from 1929 to 1966. Striebel continued to work on the strip until the early 1960s, when he became ill. Streibel's assistants were Al Bare, Dave Huffine and Frank McNitt, the son of McNaught Syndicate co-founder Virgil McNitt. Striebel's daughter, Margery Ann Huffine, did the strip's lettering from the age of 14.

Striebel died on May 22, 1962.