Renny was an American actor and cartoonist. He took the name McEvoy from his famous step-father J. P. McEvoy (see Wikipedia), his mother's second husband. J.P. was an American writer whose stories were published during the 1920s and 1930s in popular magazines such as Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan. J.P. was also the creator and writer of the popular newspaper comic strip Dixie Dugan, based on Show Girl, which had been serialized in a national magazine with illustrations by John H. Striebel, who continued on as the illustrator of the comic strip. See IMDB for Renny's acting filmography. At his step-father's death, Renny came on as collaborator with the artist John Striebel for the comic strip "Dixie Dugan". See the attached article about Renny from the late 1940's.
Renny was an American actor and cartoonist. He took the name McEvoy from his famous step-father J. P. McEvoy (see Wikipedia), his mother's second husband. J.P. was an American writer whose stories were published during the 1920s and 1930s in popular magazines such as Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan. J.P. was also the creator and writer of the popular newspaper comic strip Dixie Dugan, based on Show Girl, which had been serialized in a national magazine with illustrations by John H. Striebel, who continued on as the illustrator of the comic strip. See IMDB for Renny's acting filmography. At his step-father's death, Renny came on as collaborator with the artist John Striebel for the comic strip "Dixie Dugan". See the attached article about Renny from the late 1940's.
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