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Mar 23, 1908 Died on 30 Apr 1970 (aged 62)
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About Sam Milai
- Ahmed Samuel Milai (March 23, 1908 – April 30, 1970), better known as Sam Milai, was an African American editorial and comic strip cartoonist who drew for the Pittsburgh Courier. From 1940–c.
- 1971, Milai illustrated Your History (later known as Facts About The Negro), written by Joel Augustus Rogers.
- Patterned after the look of Robert Ripley's popular Believe It or Not cartoons, multiple vignettes in each cartoon episode recounted short items about African Americans from Rogers' research.
- The feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934, with art by George L.
- Lee.
- In 1940, the art chores were handed over to Milai, who stayed with the feature through the rest of its run.
- Two collections were published, Your History (1940) and Facts About The Negro (c.
- 1960).Milai created Don Powers, an adventure strip distributed by the Smith-Mann Syndicate about a superlative athlete, from August 19, 1950, to November 1, 1958.Milai was the Courier's editorial cartoonist for 33 years.
