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William Anthony Husband (28 August 1950 – 18 October 2023) was a British cartoonist known for his black humour. He was mainly known for his work in Private Eye magazine, and his work has appeared in The Times , the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express as well as magazines including Playboy and The Spectator .
Thelma "Thel" Keane (née Carne; March 15, 1926 – May 23, 2008) was the Australian-born American wife of The Family Circus newspaper cartoonist, Bil Keane.Keane served as her husband's inspiration and model for the "Mommy" character in his long-running comic strip [1] and was instrumental in restoring the copyrights for The Family Circus to her husband.
Our Boarding House is an American single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern on October 3, 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association.Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it drew humor from the interactions of her grandiose, tall-tale-telling husband, the self-styled Major Hoople, with the rooming-house denizens and his various friends and cronies.
Leunig began his cartoon career while studying at Swinburne in 1965 [11] when his cartoons appeared in the Monash University student newspaper Lot's Wife. [12] In the early 1970s his work appeared in the radical/satirical magazines Nation Review, The Digger and London's Oz magazine, as well as mainstream publications including Newsday and Woman's Day.
Dagwood often collides with Mr. Beasley the mailman while running out the front door—late for work. Other variations of the late-for-work gag: Dagwood keeping his car pool waiting, running after their car or stuck in traffic. In earlier decades, he had been late for the bus, or even earlier in the strip's run, late for the streetcar.
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McManus knew Barry and used him as the basis for his drawings of Jiggs. McManus's wife, the former Florence Bergere, was the model for daughter Nora. Panel from Bringing Up Father (January 7, 1940) One of McManus's friends, restaurateur James Moore, claimed he was the inspiration for the character Dinty Moore, the owner of Jiggs's favorite ...
Sally Forth is a daily comic strip created by Greg Howard in 1982 and distributed by King Features Syndicate, focusing on the life of an American middle-class mother at home and work. Sally's name is a play on words: "to sally forth" means to set out on an adventure. In 1991 Craig MacIntosh began doing the drawing. [2]