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The following is a list of comic strips. Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the ...
September 16: Gus Dirks' Latest News from Bugville makes its debut. It will run until 9 March 1902. [3] December: Richard F. Outcault's Poor Li'l Mose is the first comic strip to star a black character. The series will run until August 1902. [4] [5] December 30: John Campbell Cory launches Lariat Pete. The comic series will run until 1902.
Some newspaper strips begin or remain exclusive to one newspaper. For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year. [15] Newspaper comic strips come in two different types: daily strips and Sunday strips. In the United States, a ...
A tale of Arthur Burdett Frost dated 1881.. Comics in the United States originated in the early European works. In 1842, the work Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois by Rodolphe Töpffer was published under the title The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in the U.S. [3] [4] This edition (a newspaper supplement titled Brother Jonathan Extra No. IX, September 14, 1842) [17] [18] was an unlicensed copy of ...
April 4: Ramón Escaler creates an early comic strip with speech balloons for La Semana Cómica. [114] June 1: Jimmy Swinnerton publishes The Little Bears (1892-1896), the first American comic strip, notable for having recurring characters. [115] [116] June 23: The Chicago Inter Ocean launches its own full colour comics supplement. [117]
Richard F. Outcault's last Hogan's Alley cartoon for Truth magazine, Fourth Ward Brownies, was published on 9 February 1895 and reprinted in the New York World newspaper on 17 February 1895, beginning one of the first comic strips in an American newspaper. The character later known as the Yellow Kid had minor supporting roles in the strip's ...
In its first issue the comic Flup, Nénesse, Poussette et Cochonnet is published, which will run until 7 March 1929. [68] December 10: Harold C. Earnshaw creates the newspaper comic strip The Pater. It will run until 28 February 1931. [91] Bruno Angoletta's Marmittone makes its debut. Elov Persson's Agust och Lotta makes its debut. [81]
Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher was a sports cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle in the early 1900s, a time when a newspaper cartoon was single panel. His innovation was to tell a cartoon gag in a sequence, or strip, of panels, creating the first American comic strip to successfully pioneer that since-common format.