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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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2 Dec 2008 at 9:55pm Hard times have you down this holiday season? Take a trip to the library for some inspiration from treasured stories of Christmas past. The mortgage meltdown, job squeeze and clash between rich and poor evoke long-popular holiday tales with ghostly ... Read more...
2 Dec 2008 at 9:34pm ROUYN-NORANDA, Quebec (AP) -- Police divers recovered the body of Hubert "Pit" Martin, a four-time NHL All-Star in the 1960s and '70s, who drowned after the snowmobile he was driving plunged into an icy lake near his home. Divers found Martin's body ... Read more...
2 Dec 2008 at 6:42pm RALEIGH, North Carolina : Journalists are known for their gallows humor, but the editorial cartoon in The Seattle Times a few days before Thanksgiving was downright disturbing. Titled "Everything gravy? Not so much," the panel showed a fallen ax and ... Read more...
1 Dec 2008 at 5:53pm The artwork of 9-year-old Dustin Kasser of Gilson will be revealed to a national audience today, when his drawing of a dinosaur is featured in the long-running comic strip "Alley Oop." Kasser, a fourth-grade student at Mable Woolsey Elementary School ... Read more...
1 Dec 2008 at 8:13am Maybe if you understood literary terms such as irony, you would find " Enginerds " more enjoyable. I'll define one type for you. Situational Irony: the disparity of intention and result ? when the result of an action is contrary to the desired or ... Read more...
29 Nov 2008 at 11:03pm ?Pickles? is a serious matter. That sentence makes sense only if the word ?pickles? refers to a singular thing not numerous brined cucumbers. I have not lost my grammatical bearings as I refer to ?Pickles? the comic strip, a subject ... Read more...
26 Nov 2008 at 6:31am The sad eyes and the long ears endear a Basset puppy to people everywhere. Used primarily to hunt rabbits his low to the ground body along with the hound nose and ears make for a good dog for those wi... Read more...
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