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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 11:57pm 
New York Times |
![]() THE ESSENTIAL DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR
New York Times, United States - 30 minutes ago
For more than 20 years she has been the creator of ?Dykes to Watch Out For,? a weekly comic strip, printed mostly in college-town alternative newspapers, ... |
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2 Dec 2008 at 6:51pm
![]() End of the line for a cartoonist
International Herald Tribune, France - 5 hours ago
"It's tough to try to be funny or witty when your life is a wreck," the 32-year-old artist says, managing a weak laugh. Devericks is one of about 150 ... |
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29 Nov 2008 at 11:11pm
![]() Comic replacement places this reader in quite a pickle
Nashua Telegraph, NH - Nov 29, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, "Pickles" disappeared from The Telegraph comic strips, replaced by the ever-funny "The Amazing Spider-Man. ... |
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26 Nov 2008 at 5:31am 
Comic Book Resources |
![]() A Month of Good LGBT Comics - Jane?s World
Comic Book Resources, Ca - Nov 26, 2008
Today we look at a very fun comic strip! Paige Braddock?s Jane?s World is notable in the way that it is just a normal, well-written funny comic strip. ... |
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19 Nov 2008 at 8:20am 
Promo Magazine |
![]() King Features Creates Digital Funny Pages
Promo Magazine, NY - Nov 19, 2008
King Features?s King Digital division debuted the daily digital incarnations of more than 60 of its comic strips this week with the Albany Times-Union, ... |
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11 Nov 2008 at 7:56pm 
Canada.com |
![]() Luge brothers mimic comic strip heroes
Canada.com, Canada - Nov 11, 2008
... reaching 130 km/h -- just like comic-strip heroes Calvin, the mischievous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes the plush tiger, of the newspaper funny pages. ... |
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7 Nov 2008 at 1:36pm
![]() Comic strip in UofA newspaper denounced as racist
KTAR.com, AZ - Nov 7, 2008
Another student, Brentton Walker, said there was nothing funny about the strip. "It was offensive not only to blacks, whites, all kinds of minority groups, ... |
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