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Calvin Hobbes Comic Strip
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This article is about the sequential art form. For other uses, see Comic strip (disambiguation).
A comic strip is 88.9 metres long and on display at Trafalgar Square as part of the London Comedy Festival. The record was previously 81 metres and held in Florida. The London Cartoon Strip was created by fifteen of Britain's best known cartoonists and depicts the history of London.
The Reuben, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is the most prestigious award for U.S. comic strip artists. Reuben awards are presented annually by the National Cartoonists' Society (NCS).
Today's comic-strip artists, with the help of the NCS, enthusiastically promote the medium, which is considered to be in decline due to fewer markets and ever-shrinking newspaper space. One particularly humorous example of such promotional efforts is the Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie, held on April Fool's Day, 1997. For that day, dozens of prominent comic-strip artists took over each other's strips. Garfield’s Jim Davis, for example, switched with Blondie’s Stan Drake, while Scott Adams (Dilbert) traded strips with Bil Keane (The Family Circus). Even the United States Postal Service got into the act, issuing a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter ("Shockheaded Peter"); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill, and consumed by a flock of geese. Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter ("Shockheaded Peter"); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill, and consumed by a flock of geese. Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897. Familiar comic-strip iconography such as stars for pain, speech and thought balloons, and sawing logs for snoring originated in Dirks' strip.
Hugely popular, Katzenjammer Kids was responsible for one of the earliest and best known Sunday strips, by Winsor McCay
Sunday strips appear in Sunday newspapers, usually in a special color section. Early Sunday strips, such as Thimble Theatre and Little Orphan Annie, filled an entire newspaper page, a format known to collectors as full page. Later strips, such as sex and drugs. Many underground artists, notably Vaughn Bode, Dan O'Neill, and Gilbert Shelton went on to draw comic strips for magazines such as Boys' Life.[citation needed].
Storytelling using pictures has existed at least since the ancient Egyptians, and examples
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4 Dec 2008 at 4:13am
![]() Snow-lined streets offer beauty
Moncton ThisWeek, Canada - 10 hours ago
It made me think of a line I once heard uttered by Bill Watterson, the creator of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes. He said: "I like these cold, ... |
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1 Dec 2008 at 1:31am
![]() Dilbert shouldn't be victim of change
Orangeburg Times Democrat, SC - Nov 30, 2008
The new strips seem pretty lame to me, and unlikely to be the next Far Side or Calvin and Hobbes -- and I suppose I should simply rejoice that you kept ... |
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29 Nov 2008 at 8:09am
![]() Comics page has changed over the years
Lexington Dispatch, NC - Nov 29, 2008
We're wrapping up a two-week survey on readers' opinions of the 12 comic strips and two comic panels we publish. The goal of the survey is to use the ... |
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26 Nov 2008 at 6:15am 
findingDulcinea |
![]() Happy Birthday, Charles Schulz, Creator of Peanuts Comic Strip
findingDulcinea, New York - Nov 26, 2008
Bill Watterson, creator of the comic strip ?Calvin and Hobbes,? reviews one such biography by David Michaelis, ?Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. ... |
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24 Nov 2008 at 9:59pm 
MLive.com |
![]() Rest in peace Michael Crichton
MLive.com, MI - Nov 24, 2008
... me harder than when I was in sixth grade and learned that Bill Watterson announced he would no longer be writing the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. ... |
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21 Nov 2008 at 4:04pm
![]() Your Webcomic Is Not As Good As You Think It Is
Comixtalk, AZ - Nov 21, 2008
I was inspired by the departure of Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts. I wanted to make people feel like I felt when I read those comics. ... |
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11 Nov 2008 at 7:56pm 
Canada.com |
![]() Luge brothers mimic comic strip heroes
Canada.com, Canada - Nov 11, 2008
Just call Chris and Mike Moffat the Calvin and Hobbes of the Canadian Olympic team. On a daily basis, the Calgary brothers climb aboard a sled, ...
Luge brothers mimic comic strip heroes Canada.com
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