Carey Orr

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File:Carey Orr cartoon 1918 sailor injecting "Germany" with democracy.jpg

Carey Cassius Orr (January 17, 1890 – May 16, 1967) was an American editorial cartoonist.

In his youth, Orr was a semi-professional baseball pitcher, and he used the money he made from baseball to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After a $15 a week job at the Chicago Examiner, he was 24 when he began at the Nashville Tennessean as a full-time editorial cartoonist. In 1917, he signed on with the Chicago Tribune, where he stayed for 46 years.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,770336,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215075550/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,770336,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 15, 2008 |title=The Press: Cartoonists In Chicago |magazine=Time |date=1936-08-03 |accessdate=2010-09-17}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753459,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027071516/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753459,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 27, 2010 |title=Also In This Issue, Oct. 24, 1932 |magazine=Time |date=1932-10-24 |accessdate=2010-09-17}}

He drew the Kernel Cootie comic strip.{{cite web|url=http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=264413&gsub=45026 |title=Kernel Cootie (the) - Orr Carey Cassius - 1921, in Giuseppe Scapigliati 's - USA Dailys Comic Art Gallery Room |publisher=Comicartfans.com |date= |accessdate=2010-09-17}}

On March 25, 1914, he married Cherry Maud Kindel, and they had two daughters. Cartooning ran in the family, as Orr was the uncle of Apple Mary creator Martha Orr, and his grandson is the cartoonist-stockbroker Carey Orr Cook.{{cite web |author=Marina Krakovsky |url=http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/mayjun/dept/bright.html |title=Stanford Magazine: May/June 2004 > Departments > Bright Ideas |publisher=Stanfordalumni.org |date=2003-07-02 |accessdate=2010-09-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620230412/http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/mayjun/dept/bright.html |archive-date=2010-06-20 |url-status=dead }}

Carey Orr met and served as an early role model to Walt Disney when Disney moved back to Chicago. According to Neal Gabler's Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, Disney was very impressed by Orr's strip The Tiny Tribune.