Caniff As Comic Character
From 1995, Dargaud has published a series of Franco-Belgian comics, Pin-Up, aimed mainly at adults, written by Yann Le Pennetier and drawn by Philippe Berthet. The series describes the adventures of artist's model Dottie Partington during and after World War II. The strip features a number of real-life characters and situations, albeit in a fictional setting, including Gary Powers and the U-2 Crisis and Hugh Hefner. During WWII, Dottie is the model for Milton, an artist who has been commissioned to draw a strip to raise the morale of the troops. He creates Poison Ivy, a strip-within-a-strip, in which the titular character is a combination of Lace of Male Call and Mata Hari (though she fights with the Yanks against the Japs). Milton is later shown working on Steve Canyon.
This version of Caniff is not a particularly sympathetic one, with him caught in a loveless marriage while obsessed with Dottie who has rejected his advances.
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