Morrie Turner(1923-2014)

He took a correspondence course in drawing, but had no formal training as an artist. He drew comic strips for military newspapers while serving in the Army Air Corps during WWII.

White, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, black - it was a rainbow. I didn't know that wasn't the way it was other places. Oakland was that way before the war. We were all equal. Nobody had any money. [on the neighborhood he grew up in, from an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle]