births
September 17, 1947
Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (died 2000)
Jeff MacNelly
Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was an American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe. After Shoe had been established in papers, MacNelly created the single-panel strip Pluggers. The Wall Street Journal wrote: "MacNelly's superb draftsmanship as well as his heightened sense of the ridiculous is in the vanguard of a new generation of American cartoonists."
September 17
September 17 is the 260th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 105 days remain until the end of the year.