Alfred Andriola (May 24, 1912 - March 29, 1983) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Kerry Drake, for which he won a Reuben Award in 1970. Andriola was born in New York City and grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He studied at Cooper Union and Columbia University, intending to becoming a writer. Instead, following a fan letter he wrote to Milton Caniff, he became his assistant, working with him on Terry and the Pirates and Scorchy Smith. His first strip was Charlie Chan (1938-1942), an adaptation of the popular detective novels for the McNaught Syndicate. In 1943 he drew a minor superhero, Captain Triumph, for Quality Comics' Crack Comics and then moved on to draw the strip Dan Dunn with writer Allen Saunders. Dunn ended on October 3, 1943, and the next day their Kerry Drake debuted.
