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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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12 Oct 2008 at 3:25am
![]() Funnies are caught in time warp
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - Oct 12, 2008
By Sarah Bryan Miller Most comic strips put their characters in one place and leave them there: Dagwood, still knocking over the postman after all these ... |
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10 Oct 2008 at 7:40pm Focused Film Discussion No bullshit. Just discussion of any UPCOMING or CURRENT film (we have a forum for older films). With Uncle Mitch's help, this can be special. Actually, I'd like to see...Dr. Manhattan Send his (Veidt's) ass to Mars as ... Read more...
10 Oct 2008 at 2:18pm Guts, the Black Swordsman, and his companions have finally arrived at the sea, where they discover a mysterious child who seems to share a special bond with Guts and his former lover, the now-mad Casca. The troupe's brief respite at the shore offers ... Read more...
9 Oct 2008 at 10:02am Two weeks ago we had the puppy-beater , and now we have the puppy-tosser. What is with all the puppy abuse? Anthony Blow has thrown a poor pooch down the garbage chute while fighting with his girlfriend , Robin Hines. What?s worse than sending your ... Read more...
9 Oct 2008 at 6:48am The Madison stand-up comedy scene sometimes seems more like a drama than a comedy: petty disputes, politicking, and an ideological divide over censorship. It also has rumbles of a thriving scene on the brink. Out of a core group of about 20 Madison ... Read more...
7 Oct 2008 at 11:57pm 
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![]() It's over for Opus
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Oct 7, 2008
"Opus" will be the second venerable strip in recent weeks to end its story line. Lynn Johnston, creator of "For Better or For Worse," brought the 29-year ... |
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7 Oct 2008 at 9:00am NEW DAWG: It?s the media?s fault. We all beat up T.O. He cried because of all the negativity we brought him last week. Thank goodness we have Deion Sanders on NFL Network and Michael Irvin on ESPN/103.3 FM to give T.O.?s side of things, because ... Read more...
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