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The following is a list of comic strips.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 termination date is sometimes uncertain.
Wilkinson was born into a Quaker family in Wichita Falls, Texas on July 25, 1950. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Denver.She then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; to support herself, she worked with graphic design at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and various regional newspapers hired her as a stringer.
Nina E. Allender at desk. Nina Evans Allender (December 25, 1873 – April 2, 1957) was an American artist, cartoonist, and women's rights activist. [1] She studied art in the United States and Europe with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri.
An editorial cartoonist is an artist, a cartoonist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. The list is incomplete; it lists only those editorial cartoonists for whom a Wikipedia article already exists.
Pogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.
By 1950 the weekly circulation of both reached two million. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Explaining the enormous popularity of comics in British popular culture during this period, Anita O’Brien, director curator at London's Cartoon Museum , states: "When comics like The Beano and Dandy were invented back in the 1930s – and through really to the 1950s and ...
The dimensions of the Sunday comics continued to decrease in recent years, as did the number of pages. Sunday comics sections that were 10 or 12 pages in 1950 dropped to six or four pages by 2005. One of the last large-size Sunday comics in the United States is in the Reading Eagle, which has eight Berliner-size pages and carries 36 comics.
These characters typify the dichotomy between the good Girl-Next-Door-type versus the dangerous allure of her foil, the "Bad Girl". The duo got a comic of their own in 1950. Betty and Veronica quickly became popular, featuring the two lead characters, who continually obsessed about boys, and fought over who would get to date Archie. [2]