Percy Crosby's daughter, and defender, Joan Tibbetts has died

Today's Washington Post has a very minor obituary for Joan Tibbetts, a local woman who fiercely defended the reputation of her father Percy Crosby, and his strip Skippy.

Joan Tibbetts,  estate administrator

Washington Post December 28 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2019/12/27/b09d0a7a-2904-11ea-9c21-2c2a4d2c2166_story.html

I think everyone who wrote about comics in the DC area was probably contacted at one time or another by Mrs. Tibbetts. I certainly was. Her father's creation is probably best recalled now as an inspiration for Peanuts, but it was very popular in the 1920s and he was a millionaire from it. The Post obituary links to a 1979 article on the trip and her father.

Cartoonist's Daughter Hopes Dad's 'Skippy' Will Be Born Again

By Bob Levey

Washington Post March 15, 1979

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/03/15/cartoonists-daughter-hopes-dads-skippy-will-be-born-again/c2272360-075f-4058-9436-07dd71ddf9ec/

In spite of, or because of Mrs. Tibbetts (it's hard to say which), Skippy never returned to public view except in a series of 4 books that were only part of a projected larger reprint project.