in North Carolina, Graue wrote and drew the strip through the 1970s and 1980s until Jack Bender took over as illustrator in 1991. Graue continued to write the strip until his August 2001 retirement. On December 10, 2001, the 75-year-old Graue died in Flat Rock, North Carolina in a traffic collision. The current Alley Oop Sunday and daily strips are created by writer Joey Alison Sayers and artist Jonathan Lemon Later life and death The Hamlins moved to Sarasota, Florida, after his retirement. He wrote his autobiography, The Man Who Walked with Dinosaurs and a novel The Devil's Daughter. Four Rivers'' is his fishing memoir. Dorothy Hamlin died in 1985, and V. T. Hamlin died in Brooksville, Florida, in 1993 at the age of 93. Archives Theodora Hamlin Dewalt donated the V. T. Hamlin Collection to the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries on December 22, 1990. It includes 126 original cartoons and 436 personal and career photographs, along with newspaper and journal articles about Hamlin's work, contracts and correspondence with Newspaper Enterprise Association, personal and family papers, correspondence and memorabilia. References External links Des Moines Register, "Famous Iowans: V. T. Hamlin" Caveman: V. T. Hamlin and Alley Oop, a documentary film about Hamlin 1900 births 1993 deaths American comic strip cartoonists United States Army personnel of World War I People from Perry, Iowa