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This article does not cite any references or sources. (January 2007) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. The examples and perspective in this article or discuss the issue on the talk page. This article is about the sequential art form. For other uses, see Comic strip (disambiguation). A comic strip is a newspaper comic strip that appears in newspapers Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip which appears on Sunday. Daily strips are usually in black and white, though a few newspapers, beginning in the later part of the twentieth century. The Yellow Kid is usually credited as being the very first newspaper comic strips appeared in America in the early '40s, Don Flowers' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP. (The latter continued to publish Modest Maidens as drawn by Jay Allen, who aped Flowers' style to a tee.) The majority of traditional newspaper comic strips are syndicated; that is, a syndicate hires people to write and draw the strip, and then distributes the strip to many newspapers for a fee. A few newspaper strips are exclusive to one newspaper. For example The Louisiana Purchase by John Chase ran only in the New Orleans Times Picayune, or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the Chicago Daily News. When Sunday strips began to include adventure stories. Buck Rogers, Tarzan and The Adventures of Tintin were some of the genre's most popular strips. Examples include Little Orphan Annie (drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924-44 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy), and Terry and The Pirates (started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by a string of successors, most notably George Wunder.) A business-driven variation on the "switch" has sometimes led to the same feature continuing under a different name. In one case, in the early years of the twentieth century, published them in color. The major formats are strips, which are wider than

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2 Dec 2008 at 4:04pm Nina Paley, the animator and producer of animated feature SITA SINGS THE BLUES, has been nominated as "Someone to Watch" for this year's Film Independent's 24th Annual Spirit Award. Paley is a longtime veteran of syndicated comic strips, creating ...

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World-wide most popular comic will be soon available for mobile phones - PR I...

2 Dec 2008 at 4:01am 2008-12-02 11:05:02 - mobivention has signed a distribution agreement with United Media for the popular cartoon brand PEANUTS. Cologne (Germany) - 2 December 2008 - mobivention, the global mobile content distributor, has signed a distribution ...

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Daily Press no longer inserting color comics - Craig Daily Press

1 Dec 2008 at 12:56am This weekend marked the last time the Saturday Morning Press included a Sunday color comics section. Starting next week, we instead will offer an improved Saturday Morning Press, featuring up to 24 pages of color, instead of the current 16. Many ...

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Comic replacement places this reader in quite a pickle - Nashua Telegraph

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 ...

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Intl meet calls for child porn viewing to be made illegal - Daily Yomiuri On-...

29 Nov 2008 at 12:33pm RIO DE JANEIRO--The viewing and procurement of child pornography, including online images of the sexual abuse of children, should be made illegal in all nations, according to a declaration issued at an international congress in Rio de Janeiro. The ...

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Comics page has changed over the years - Dispatch

28 Nov 2008 at 5:56pm The economic situation and other depressing news often sends us looking for a laugh. Newspaper readers can turn to the comics page each day to find a chuckle. Not every comic aims for laughs. Some involve story arcs with characters that readers come ...

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