"Listen, General Lee!..." (Wee Pals comic strip)

Morris "Morrie" Turner

A Wee Pals comic strip for a 1986 publication of the News America Syndicate service (now North America Syndicate, a part of the Hearst corporation). Celebrated cartoonist Morrie Turner first published Wee Pals in 1965. The first of its kind in the United States, it was both penned by a Black American and featured what would later be dubbed the "Rainbow Gang", a racially diverse and otherwise inclusive cast of characters not seen before the publication of Wee Pals. He continued to draw and publish the strip until his death in 2014.

Morrie Turner learned cartooning techniques through a correspondence course he took as a teen in Oakland and, while enlisted as a mechanic for the Tuskeegee Airmen during World War II, he published his comics in the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. After becoming disheartened at the lack of front-and-center minority representation in popular comics, he decided to create one. He would go on to become syndicated in 1965.

This strip features one of the best-recognized characters, Nipper, and his dog General Lee. It includes the pale blue penciled guide lines that allowed him to plot out each cell prior to inking; the blue lines would then disappear in the printing process.