Brother Juniper at Work and Play

127 pp. McCarthy began drawing a cartoon friar while a student there, at first for his own amusement, and then for posters and flyers.[3] He named the short, freckled, and ever-cheerful (if sometimes naive) character "Brother Juniper" in 1942,[4] after the historical Brother Juniper, a companion of St. Francis of Assisi. McCarthy later served as art director of Friar, a national Franciscan magazine, and this led to the Brother Juniper character coming to the attention of the Publishers Syndicate, a distributor of comic strips. The Brother Juniper strip was published from 1958 until 1989.[4] Running in over 100 American newspapers as well as overseas,[4] Brother Juniper was the only religious-themed comic ever syndicated in daily newspapers internationally.[5] McCarthy also created two less-successful religious-themed strips, Sister Suzie about a teaching nun, and Brother Rufus. He published these under the pen name "Fred Francis".[6]--Wikipedia