Howard Post

Howard Post (November 2, 1926 – May 21, 2010) was an American animator, cartoonist, and writer-artist best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip *The Dropouts*, which ran for thirteen years, and for creating the DC Comics character Anthro. Born in New York City, Post began his career in comics in the late 1940s, working as an artist, inker, letterer, and writer across dozens of issues. His credits span a wide range of licensed and humor titles, including *Care Bears*, *Police Academy*, *Heathcliff*, *Festival Fantastico*, *Camp Candy*, and *Casper's Ghostland*. Post’s style was clean, expressive, and well-suited to both gag-a-day strips and children’s adventure comics. He collaborated with various writers and editors over his decades-long career, though his most enduring solo creation remains Anthro, a prehistoric boy introduced in 1968 as DC’s first original caveman character. Later in life, Post continued to work in animation and comics, contributing to projects well into the 2000s. He received no major industry awards during his lifetime, but his work on *The Dropouts* and Anthro has been recognized by historians as a modest but distinctive part of mid-century American comics.