Awards and Public Career
Branner wrote and drew Winnie Winkle from 1920 to 1962, receiving the National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award in 1958. In 1957, Branner was a guest challenger on the television panel show To Tell the Truth. He was a noted wit and drew on his vaudeville background for some gags appearing in his cartoons.
Martin and Edith Branner lived at 27 Riverside Drive in Waterford, Connecticut, and they were the designers of Waterford's Town Seal. During their many visits to New York, the Branners enjoyed living in hotels; they were frequent guests at the Iroquois Hotel, which Branner called "the poor man's Algonquin."
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