The young Raeburn Van Buren showed an early talent for drawing. He joined the art staff of the Kansas City Star immediately after graduation. After four years as a sketch artist, Van Buren moved to New York to study and to do freelance illustrations. He became a frequent contributor to Life, Puck, Judge and Street and Smith publications. Van Buren soon became one of the country's leading illustrators. In the mid-1930s, cartoonist Al Capp offered Van Buren the drawing duties on 'Abbie an' Slats'. He drew this strip for over forty years. Raeburn Van Buren spent his last years in retirement.
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