From KTVU
OAKLAND, Calif. —
Morris “Morrie” Turner, the creator of the Wee Pals comic strip and the first African American artist to have a column syndicated nationally, has died. He was 90.
A spokesman for Turner said the Oakland-born artist died peacefully at a hospital in Sacramento on Saturday.
Turner developed the ethnically diverse comic strip in 1965 at the urging of his mentor Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.