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unusual facts about The Strip



Alexandra DiNovi

DiNovi has appeared in three full-length major motion pictures: including "The Break-Up" "The Express" (she played a Cheerleader and "The Strip" She has appeared in over a dozen full-length independent films, having her directorial, production and writing debut in "Purity"

Caesars Palace Grand Prix

In fact, the 1995 Indianapolis 500 program advertised a possible street circuit along The Strip, but it never materialized.


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Aston Hippodrome

The opening chapter of Ron Dawson's novel, The Last Viking, vividly describes one of the 'strip tease shows' which dominated the Hipp's offerings during the mid to late 1950s.

Bob Kuwahara

In 1945 Kuwahara and his family moved to Larchmont, New York where he wrote and drew a comic strip called Miki for five years before low circulation forced him to drop the strip.

Coulton Waugh

In 1944, when Waugh left the strip to work on Hank (1945), his wife and assistant, Odin Burvik, took over Dickie Dare in 1944-47, followed by Fran Matera (1948–49).

Crudgington

In Bill Tidy's long-running cartoon published in the monthly Campaign for Real Ale newsletter, a fictional Crudgington Brewery is a regular feature, as the beer of choice ("Crudgington's") of the strip's main character.

Dogpatch

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's (and Lower Slobbovia's) distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

Doomlord

A replacement Doomlord ruled in favour of Earth and eventually became its protector, fathering a son; the strip evolved into superheroics drawn by Eric Bradbury.

Initially pencilled by Gary Compton and inked by Heinzl, and later for a more extensive period pencilled and inked by Eric Bradbury, the strip was now unrestricted by budget or special effects constraints – the first page shows Vek warping into a bird and observing a road crash from aloft.

Ed Wheelan

For William Randolph Hearst, he created the strip Midget Movies in 1918, but he left in 1920 after a dispute with Hearst.

Enrique Badía Romero

Romero's 1970s work on the Modesty Blaise strip is continually reprinted in an ongoing series of compilation volumes published by the UK company Titan Books since 2005, while Comics Revue has reprinted all of his post-1986 work on the strip.

Fatty Finn

In 1980 the strip was adapted into a feature film, Fatty Finn directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Ben Oxenbould with Rebecca Rigg.

Fingerpori

As well as the Fingerporians, the strip has included characters such as the Pope, The Phantom, Spider-Man, Adolf Hitler, Kimi Räikkönen and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.

FoxTrot

On occasion, there have been a few celebrity guest appearances in the strip, such as The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Frode Øverli

He created a strip first titled A-laget, about three soccer supporters, but the concept evolved into what became the strip Pondus, one of Scandinavia's most successful comic strips of all time.

Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio

Geneva-on-the-Lake's central attraction is "the Strip", a section of State Route 531 which is lined with parks, restaurants, and arcades, and has been a tourist attraction for decades.

George McArthur

He has also had small roles on television shows such as According to Jim, Highway to Heaven, The Strip, and Carnivàle.

Gil Thorp

The strip was created by Jack Berrill, who modeled and named Thorp after baseball player Gil Hodges and Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe.

God's Stuff

The strip offers a light-hearted yet poignant look at the Bible through the eyes of an imaginative and plucky little girl.

James Hewetson

The original 1826 application requested a grant between the Nueces and Sabine Rivers, but in 1828, the Mexican government instead offered the strip of land between the Guadalupe and Lavaca Rivers.

Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green

The strip's artist is Laura Howell, who also pens and has subsequently taken over outright Hunt Emerson's "Ratz", and has also drawn one Minnie the Minx and one Les Pretend strip.

Justin Tanner

Mr. Tanner's many other projects have included doing a weekly late night live comedy serial called "The Strip" starring, among others, John Waters luminary Mink Stole, and being a staff writer on television's Gilmore Girls and the short lived cult favorite Love Monkey, and directing the yearly Christmas satire "Bob's Office Party".

Lamar Thomas

He was the victim of "The Strip", George Teague's strip of the football at the 10 yard line in the 1993 Sugar Bowl that continued an Alabama rout of Miami.

Live: A Night on the Strip

Live: A Night on the Strip is a live recording by L.A. Guns which occurred October 7, 1999, at the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

Lyman Young

Tony DiPreta began his career doing lettering on the strip while Young played golf.

Mallard Fillmore

The strip follows the exploits of its title character, an anthropomorphic green-plumaged duck who works as a politically conservative reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington, D.C. Mallard's name is a pun on the name of the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore.

Miss Peach

From 1982, several television movies were based on the strip: Miss Peach of the Kelly School featured a live actor as Miss Peach and puppets as the children (some voiced by Martin Short).

Morrie Brickman

When he retired in 1984, the strip continued with art and script by Bill Yates.

Nonoy Marcelo

Marcelo often used the strip to caricature political figures from Ferdinand Marcos and Cory Aquino to Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, re-imagining them as mice.

Overnight Delivery

The film included landmarks such as Ground Zero nightclub, used as the “strip club”, Minneapolis convention center as the “airport”, the Stillwater Lift Bridge, and University of St. Thomas as The University of Memphis.

Power Rangers S.P.D.

The strip was the first Power Rangers strip to be written by Transformers writer Simon Furman, collaborating for the first time on the PR strip with equally popular TF artist Andrew Wildman, who had previously done artwork for other Power Rangers strips under Jetix Magazines' previous banner of Fox Kids' Wicked.

Prickly City

Early in the strip's run, Winslow had a crush on Condoleezza Rice, even writing a poem about her (which Carmen initially misunderstood as being a poem about herself).

Queen of Wands

She frequently appears to pester the main characters (and everyone else in the strip) with questions about Wicca and witches.

Quimby the Mouse

The strip follows that of a seemingly depressed cartoon mouse, modeled after Felix The Cat and Mickey Mouse.

Roger the Dodger

When Nixon left in 1973, Tom Lavery began drawing the strip, who was then followed by Frank McDiarmid in 1976.

Rose Is Rose

The strip has also won the Religious Public Relations Council's Wilbur Award for Editorial Cartoon/Comic Strips.

Sandra and Woo

The strip was mentioned in MTV Geek and discussed in the Cipher Mysteries blog of cryptology expert Nick Pelling as well as Klausis Krypto Kolumne of cryptology expert Klaus Schmeh.

Secret Agent X-9

Nicholas Afonsky drew the strip for most of 1938, followed by Austin Briggs until 1940.

Skookum Skool

The strip was drawn by Ken H. Harrison featured a class of six (later five) mischievous pupils similar in theme to The Beano comic strip The Bash Street Kids.

Stan Drake

In 1984, Drake replaced Mike Gersher as the artist on Blondie (written by Dean Young), and he continued drawing the strip until his death.

Steel plate shear wall

The pioneering work of Kulak and co-investigators at the University of Alberta in Canada led to a simplified method for analyzing a thin unstiffened SPSW - the strip model.

Strip mill

The strip mill was a major innovation, with the first being erected at Ashland, Kentucky in 1923.

Swee'Pea

In the strip for August 17, 1933, Popeye christens Swee'Pea as 'Scooner Seawell Georgia Washenting Christiffer Columbia Daniel Boom'.

Sweeny Toddler

Tom Paterson took over from Baxendale quite early on, Paterson becoming easily the most famous and longest running artist to draw the strip.

Tank McNamara

Sometimes these issues are portrayed fictionally, as when Tank's Little Brother battles an online gambling problem, but sometimes the strip treats specific controversies by naming names.

The Chosen Family

The strip appeared in many LGBT publications throughout North America, including Xtra! and the Washington Blade, and also in mainstream general interest publications such as Geist.

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

Appearing in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender publications, the strip's title character is Ethan Green, a young gay man trying to balance his professional career as a personal assistant with his search for love.

This Modern World

Invisible Hand of the Free Market Man (abbreviated I.H.O.T.F.M.-Man in dialog in the strip) is a superhero character, wearing what is basically a Superman costume, with an I.H.O.T.F.M.-Man logo (a hand with the IHOTF in each finger, and M in the palm) where the Superman logo would be.

Thunderbolt and Smokey!

The uncredited actors in the leading roles were Richard Cray (Thunderbolt) and Ian Green (Smokey), and the strip was largely shot at the Magna Carta School in Egham Hythe, Surrey.