Template:Short description Wilbert L. Holloway (1899 - 1969) was a cartoonist in the United States.[1][2][3] He drew the Sunny Boy Sam cartoon for 41 years. It was the second longest running comic strip in the African American press.[4] The cartoon ran in the Pittsburgh Courier and was continued after Holloway's death by another cartoonist. Holloway also did political cartoons.[4] A file on him is held by Ohio State University.[5]
Holloway attended Herron Art School and shared an artist studio with Hale Woodruff before moving to Pittsburgh.[6]
The Sunny Boy Sam trip was comedic. It featured gags and a lead character who played the numbers and appeared with minstrel features and heavy dialect.[7]
In April 1927, Holloway illustrated Langston Hughes' story "Bodies in the Moonlight" in The Messenger.[8][9]