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Archie creator Tom Moore passes away

| | Jul 22, 2015, at 08:57 pm
El Paso, USA, Jul 22 (IBNS) Tom Moore, creator of the famous comic strip character'Archie' has died in Texas. He was 86, reports said.

He died early Monday morning in a hospital in his hometown of El Paso.

He was diagnosed with throat cancer.

Moore started drawing cartoons while in the US Navy in the early 1950s and went on with his creations. Archie Andrews, his main character became immensely popular worldwide.

He retired in the late 1980s. 

Annual sales of the comic regularly surpassed half a million during the 1960s. 

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