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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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1 Dec 2008 at 10:29am If you?re getting ready for that holiday shopping spree, it?s a good bet that many of the friends on your list would enjoy a DVD collection as a present. There are plenty of titles out there. This year, there are more sets than ever with complete ... Read more...
1 Dec 2008 at 10:09am
![]() The Riff: Which Strip Should Be Hollywood-Bound?
Washington Post Blogs, DC - Dec 1, 2008
Such mega-strips as "Garfield" have had their screen time, of course. Stephan Pastis told Comic Riffs some months back that he's working on a Hollywood ... |
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1 Dec 2008 at 12:17am
![]() Garfield minus Garfield equals existential despair
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - Nov 30, 2008
In any case, to up the ante on the comic's disquiet, an enterprising blogger has removed Garfield the cat from Garfield the comic strip, leaving us with ... |
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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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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 ... Read more...
28 Nov 2008 at 3:30am That $15 DVD player isn't worth an emergency room visit today, shoppers. So keep the elbow-throwing to a minimum and play it safe on Black Friday by consulting the Green Bay Press-Gazette's third annual pop-culture gift guide. TV, movies, music and ... Read more...
27 Nov 2008 at 2:23pm PHILADELPHIA - TV foodie Rachel Ray was on hand along with the traditional array of floats and balloons for the 89th annual Thanksgiving parade in Philadelphia. Thousands packed the streets starting at 8:30 a.m. and running through Thursday afternoon ... Read more...
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