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unusual facts about comic strips



Decalcomania

In the 1950s and early 1960s, King Features Syndicate marketed a set of decalcomanias bearing full-color pictures of characters from King Features comic strips, including Flash Gordon, the Katzenjammer Kids, and Dagwood Bumstead.

Feature Funnies

Publisher Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, deducing that Depression-era audiences wanted established quality and familiar comic strips for their hard-earned dimes, formed the suitably titled Comic Favorites, Inc.


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Abraham J. Twerski

He has written over sixty books on Judaism and self-help topics, including several books with Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strips used to illustrate human interaction and behavior.

Al Posen

Alvah Posen (1895 - June 10, 1960) was an American cartoonist on several comic strips, but he is best known for his strip Sweeney & Son and as co-producer of the now-lost Marx Brothers film, Humor Risk (1921).

Bill Blackbeard

As a freelance writer, Blackbeard wrote, edited or contributed to more than 200 books on cartoons and comic strips, including 100 Years of Comic Strips, the Krazy & Ignatz series (Eclipse/Fantagraphics) and NBM's 18-volume Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy.

Charles Fincher

And he is the creator of "Legal Isms," 10 comic strips about lawyers, contracted by LexisNexis.

Chester Gould

He was hired by William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Evening American, where he produced his first comic strips, Fillum Fables (1924) and The Radio Catts.

Comics

American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s.

David Reddick

He is the creator of various popular comic strips such as "Legend of Bill," The Trek Life at CBS/ STARTREK.COM, Gene's Journal and Rod & Barry at Roddenberry.com, and he is a full-time cartoonist at Paws, Inc., where he works on the Garfield worldwide property.

Drumroll, Please

The book that Lily is reading is when Robin comes over is Pure Ducky Goodness, a collection of comic-strips created by this episode's writer's husband, Dave Kellett.

Earl Duvall

– January 7, 1969) was an American artist and animator best known for his work on Walt Disney comic strips in the early 1930s and for a handful of animated cartoon short subjects he directed at Warner Bros. Cartoons.

Enzo Baldoni

He was also noted for the Italian translation of Doonesbury comic strips.

Foobar

The word foo became very popular in the 1930s, and also appeared in other cartoons including the Looney Tunes cartoons of Bob Clampett such as The Daffy Doc and Porky in Wackyland (both 1938, with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig), and in other comic strips such as Pogo.

Formicarium

The fact that the term "ant farm" is covered by a trademark received notoriety when Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, used the phrase in one of his comic strips.

Frances Horwich

Miss Frances was mentioned by name four different times in Peanuts comic strips by creator Charles Schulz (8 June 1954, 30 August 1955, 19 March 1956, 27 August 1956).

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.

Gus Edson

During the discussion "What's Wrong with Comics?", Edson questioned panelist John Mason Brown, challenging Brown's negative notions about comic strips.

Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet

He published his first continuing comic strips in The Chicago Maroon while an undergraduate at the University of Chicago.

Henri Gillain

Although committed to his career as a math teacher, Henri Gillain followed with interest the early developments of comic strips in Belgium, and the artistic evolution of his brother, Jijé, eventually considered by many the second pioneer of Belgian comics after Hergé.

Jerry Dumas

Apart from his work with Walker, Dumas also worked on other comic strips like Benchley with Mort Drucker and Rabbits Rafferty and McCall of the Wild with Mel Crawford.

In 1954, after acquiring a degree in English from Arizona State University, where he contributed drawings to the State Press, he worked as a text editor on Mort Walker's comic strips (Hi and Lois and Beetle Bailey).

Johnny Dexter

Johnny Dexter was a fictional footballer who appeared in three different comic strips in the British boys' comic Roy of the Rovers during the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Laerte

Laerte Coutinho (São Paulo, June 10, 1951), known simply by his first name, Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist, who draws comic strips for newspapers.

Lil' Ainjil

Unlike the Krazy Kat films of the Winkler and Columbia periond, animator Isidore Klein attempt to create Lil' Ainjil in the milieu of George Herriman's comic strips.

Manta Force

The purpose of the comic-strips was to provide a back-story to Manta Force universe and help to promote the Bluebird toy range.

Mark Lasky

He had previously worked on other comic strips, including Mell Lazarus's Miss Peach and Momma.

Mondas

The monthly series of comic strips written by Alan Barnes and drawn by Adrian Salmon, The Cybermen (DWM no. 215–238) ignored this and took place on an unspoiled version of Mondas.

Northwest African Training Command

The comic strips Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff were partly inspired by Philip Cochran who was a friend of Caniff.

Phantom Blot

The Phantom Blot later appeared in a short featured on Mickey Mouse Works, based on the comic strips in which he first appeared in, titled "Mickey Foils the Phantom Blot" and originally broadcast on November 7, 1999.

Philippine comics

Originally inspired by American comic strips and comic books left behind by American GIs, the medium steadily diverged, and by the 1950s, drew more inspiration from other forms of Filipino literature such as komedya, as well as Philippine mythology.

Pink ribbon

On Sunday, October 10, 2010, all King Features Syndicate comic strips were printed in shades of red and pink, with the ribbon appearing prominently in one panel.

Raymond Edward Johnson

A prolific performer, Johnson was also heard as Mr. District Attorney in 1939, Roger Kilgore, Public Defender, Calling All Cars, and starred in radio adaptations of the comic strips Don Winslow of the Navy and Mandrake the Magician.

Rose Is Rose

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

Signor Bonaventura

In 1941 the same Tofano directed a film adaptation of the comic strips, Cenerentola e il signor Bonaventura, in which the main character was played by Paolo Stoppa.

Sumio Shiratori

He is best known for composing the soundtrack to the 1990-1992 Moomin anime TV series, based on the Moomin books and comic strips by illustrator and author Tove Jansson.

Sunday comics

Most notably, on July 8, 1945, during a New York newspaper deliverers' strike, New York mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia read comic strips over the radio.

In America, the popularity of comic strips sprang from the newspaper war between Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

Sunday strip

Many comic strips appear both daily and Sunday, in some cases, as with Little Orphan Annie, telling the same story daily and Sunday, in other cases, as with The Phantom, telling one story in the daily and a different story in the Sunday.

Tharks

The Tharks and Tars Tarkas are featured in many of the ten Martian novels written by Burroughs, in toys (as recently as the 1990s), in John Carter, Warlord of Mars comics published by both DC Comics and Marvel Comics in the 1970s, and in comic strips by John Coleman Burroughs (son of Edgar Rice Burroughs).

The Dandy

The contents received a major overhaul, and all the comic strips from the Xtreme era except for Desperate Dan, Bananaman and The Bogies were dropped.

The Portland Mercury

Adult, abstract and surrealist comic strips are also featured, such as Maakies by Tony Millionaire, Kaz's Underworld by Kaz, Idiot Box by Matt Bors, etc.

The Tab Hunter Show

The Bachelor at Large comic strips seen on camera were drawn by veteran cartoonist Zeke Zekley, who had worked closely with George McManus on the classic strip Bringing Up Father from 1935 to 1954.

Vic Lockman

Among the many comic strips and cartoons he created, Vic might be most known for his characters created for The Walt Disney Company in 1960; Newton Gearloose and Moby Duck.