#comic strip history

[siscosfavoritecomics]

The Brenda Starr reporter comic strip makes its debut in the Chicago Tribune Comic Book Magazine on June 30, 1940. The strip was drawn and written by Dalia Messick (April 11, 1906 – April 5, 2005) under the pen name of Dale Messick. The reason for the pen name? Simply put: sexism.

The newspaper publishers didn't put any stock in women artists and writers. It was easier for Messick to use a man's name in order to get her work published. Once the comic strip became a stable part of the Daily newspaper strip pages on October 22, 1945, Messick would draw the strip until 1980 and write it until 1982. The strip would continue to be drawn and written by various women artists and writers.

The last Brenda Starr reporter strip was printed on January 2, 2011.

For Further Reading:

How Women Broke Into the Male-Dominated World of Cartoons and Illustrations by Anna Diamond from Smithsonian Magazine dated January 11, 2018

#Brenda Starr #Dalia Messick #Dale Messick #Women's Studies #Women's History #HERStory #Comic Strip History #Comic Strip #Comic Strips #Comic #Comics #Comic Book #Comic Books #SiscosFavoriteComics

[peanutsoutofcontext]

Happy International Women’s Day From Peppermint Patty, one the best feminist icons of Peanuts 👸✊🩷

#not out of context #but I hadn’t seen anyone else make a post like this #today #women’s history month #peppermint patty #women’s day #peanuts #snoopy #charlie brown #comics #cartoons #comic strips #cute #charles schulz #snoopy of the day #awesome

[arconinternet]

It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown (Video, 1988)

“I wanted this to be my ‘Citizen Kane,’ but it’s not.” - Charles M. Schulz. You can watch it here.

Here's an article, a podcast episode, and a 1988 review from the New York Times.

#internet archive #video #videos #cartoon #cartoons #animation #animation history #peanuts #comic #comics #comics history #comic strip #comic strips #newspaper comics #obscure cartoons #obscure animation #tv special #1988 #1980s #80s

[byelacey]

The Pyr Review - A Royal PYRstory - subscribe for a new comic every monday! sources for this one can be found on AKC.org and the royal collection trust home page.  gabbas MVP

#the pyr review #great pyrenees #dog #pyrenees #history #comic #comic strip

[menandwomanofhistory]

Bill Watterson

#history #vintage #photography #portrait #writer #black and white photography #comic strip #illustration #illustrator #art #modern writer #modern literature #literature #american history #us history #u.s. history #u.s. #america #american #calvin and hobbes #cartoon

[titleknown]

An interesting thing I found out recently: Garfield might actually be public domain, attempts to fake him not being so aside, but only very specifically the extremely early version of him that appeared in Jim Davis' first "Jon" strips.

Though it might take some...

...extensive redesign work to make that specific version look at all appealing.

#garfield #comics #comic strips #public domain #comics history #interesting

[floridaboiler]

February 13, 2000, the final Peanuts comic strip was published. Written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, it ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". 

At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper.

Peanuts achieved considerable success with its television specials, several of which, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, won or were nominated for Emmy Awards. The holiday specials remain popular and are currently broadcast on ABC in the United States during the corresponding seasons. The Peanuts franchise met acclaim in theatre, with the stage musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown being a successful and often-performed production.

Peanuts has been described as "the most shining example of the American success story in the comic strip field"; this is ironic, given its theme is "the great American unsuccess story." The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Peanuts the fourth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time.

#On this Day #this date in history #Peanuts #Charles Schulz #February 13 #Last Comic Strip

[steakout-05]

i drew my babygirl Jon Arbuckle :)

his ass!!! it haunts me!!!! i tried to draw him taller but he just kinda ended up looking really stocky and i don't know how that happened,,, man's like 6 foot canonically. i think i was too focused on his ass and making his legs look cute lol

speaking of ass, i don't know why Jim Davis decided to give Jon such a dumptruck but i'm so glad he did. ever since the very beginning of Garfield in the 'Jon' strip, he's had a fat ass and i absolutely love that. it's just a cemented part of his character now and always has been XD

i drew 1978-1980 Garf from memory!! one of my absolute favourite things about classic Garfield is just how arch-shaped he is. he's just a fat little cat guy and i love him :) i always make sure i draw the arch shape when i draw Garfield sitting cause that's one of my favourite parts about drawing him

also here is Gnorm :) for those unaware, back in the very early 1970s, before Garfield was created in any form, Jim Davis made a little comic strip about bugs called 'Gnorm Gnat'. it was mainly about the little bug dudes getting into silly relatable little antics with snappy punchlines. it's got a few characters like Gnorm, a fruit fly named Freddy, a slug named Cecil, a smart worm called Dr. Rosenwurm and Drac Webb to name a few. for something so early, it actually has quite a few familiar aspects of what would later become Garfield. the same writing style, a similar art style to early Garfield/Jon, occasional references to Peanuts (a comic Davis grew up with), the German doctor character who later appeared in the 'Jon' strip, heck there's even a goofy bug named Lyman! additionally, the name "John Arbuckle" shows up in a strip where Dr. Rosenwurm reads a piece of poetry written by him (which was recycled into an actual early Garfield strip where Jon Arbuckle reads the same poem). in fact, it's so mildly familiar that the entirety of the September 9th, 1978 Garfield strip was recycled twice, first in Jon and then in Garfield!

unfortunately, Gnorm Gnat only ended up getting published in the local newspaper, Pendleton Times, following several rejections from various syndicates for the fact that bugs just aren't as relatable or funny to a lot of people as Jim Davis thought they were. of course, i think Gnorm Gnat is something very special to the history of Garfield and i quite like it for its significance. i think it's a cute little bug comic and i hope it gets rebooted someday :)

#jon arbuckle #garfield #gnorm gnat #jim davis #currently listening to the 'Arbuckle' soundtrack that Patricia Taxxon created :D #it's really good!!!! #i love her music it's so cool!! #y'know after learning to draw the guy i've become quite fond of gnorm #i already liked him before because he's interesting to garf history but like. #i think i'm slowly becoming an unironic gnorm gnat fan #if gnorm gnat has 5 million fans i'm one of them #if gnorm gnat has one fan that's me #if gnorm gnat has no fans i've been crushed by a giant shoe #oh yeah one of my favourite things about gnorm gnat is the urban legend that the comic ended with him getting crushed by a shoe #it didn't actually end that way (it actually ended with him thanking pendleton) but it's funny to think about #i think i actually have a sort of mandela effect memory related to that legend actually #like i felt like i had actually seen it online before but it was actually just a garfield comic i was misremembering where he squishes a bu #what's really funny about that legend though is that it has a tiny bit of truth to it. there is a gnorm gnat strip where a bug gets- #-squished by a shoe but it isn't gnorm #it was a random bug who's supposed to be one of those guys with signs who go and say ''the end is afoot!'' #and then he ends up getting squashed by a shoe #to which cecil slug says ''now that's what i call irony'' #so yeah someone does get squished but it wasn't the last strip and gnorm is fine #jim davis himself actually appears in a few strips represented simply as an omnipresent giant pencil which is really funny #i could ramble endlessly about this comic but i think i'm starting to run out of tags #there should be a gnorm gnat fandom i think

[greekmythcomix]

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - a summary comic

(Originally for ClassicsTober 2021, prompt: CAVE)

#Plato #Plato’s cave #philosophy #education #comics in education #comic #teaching comics #comic strip #ancient history #ancient history teaching #philosophical #Ancient Greek #ancient greece #ancient greek philosophy #platonic #stick figure #stick man #stickmen #tagamemnon #comix #illustration #greek myth comix #the republic #socrates

[araiz-zaria]

...and I BOOP!

#drawing #original art #manga #illustration #traditional art #pen and ink #drawing pen #fan art #comic strip #silent comic #boop #it's crack o'clock folks #american civil war #american history #sort of #joshua lawrence chamberlain #cats #maine coon #maine coon cat #GET BOOPED LAWRENCE 😂🤣😺 #i meant that to be a ginger tabby cat but that looks like an orange kool aid cat instead 😅😩😭💀

[scotianostra]

On March 8th 1936 Oor Wullie and The Broons made their first appearance in the Sunday Post.

Jings , Crivven’s, and Help ma boab!! All words synonymous with oor we dungaree wearing hero.

Wullie and his gang have been keeping boredom at bay for decades in the typical Scottish town of Auchenshoogle.

The rascal has become an icon sitting on an upturned bucket in his famous dungarees as he plans the latest pranks and japes.

Fat Bob, Soapy Soutar, Wee Eck, Primrose (and don’t forget Jeemy the mouse) all join in the fun, with Wullie’s Ma, Pa and poor old PC Murdoch also playing starring roles.

Some famous faces have appeared in the strip over the years including Nicola Sturgeon, Ewan McGregor, Andy Murray and Amy Macdonald.

A 2004 survey voted Wullie ‘Scotland’s Favourite Son’, beating William Wallace, Sean Connery and Rabbie Burns in the top four

Everyone knows the Broons. Hen is still the tallest beanpole in Scotland, Joe’s still flexing his muscles, Maggie’s still as gorgeous as ever, Daphne’s still trying to get a man, Horace is constantly swotting and the never-named Twins are always up to mischief. And that’s not forgetting the brainiest Bairn in Scotland, the ever youthful Granpaw and heads of the whole clan - matriarch Maw and put-upon Paw.

Although they’ve only ever appeared in the pages of the Dundee-based Sunday newspaper, the annuals - which alternate year about between Oor Wullie and The Broons - are still flying off the shelves faster than Granpaw’s false teeth during a toffee apple eating contest.

The annuals are always in the top ten Christmas bestsellers at booksellers Waterstone’s.

While the two strips adhere to the traditional format there have been some changes over the years, not all go down well, like when hen they tried printing the comics strips in colour the 90s, Michty me! There were shoals of complaints from readers and they had to go back to black and white In the most recent annuals, Horace gets a makeover and is mistaken for Harry Potter, while other characters are seen clutching mobile phones, checking e-mails on laptops, singing on karaoke machines and watching satellite TV.

#scotland #scottish #history #dundee #sunday post #oor wullie #the broons #fun section #comic strips

[siscosfavoritecomics]

On This Day in History June 19, 1978: Jim Davis' Garfield comic strip makes its debut. According to the Garfield Wiki:

"Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield (named after Davis' grandfather); his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie. As of 2007, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip."

#Garfield #Jim Davis #Comic Strip #Comic Strip History #Comic #Comics #Comic Book #Comic Books #SiscosFavoriteComics

[swedebeast]

Today is the 88th anniversary of the creation of Lee Falk's The Phantom! First published on February 17th, 1936. And at it's peak it was read by over 100 million readers daily worldwide, and has been published in 583 newspapers.

#the phantom #comics #lee falk #sunday strips #history #comic #phantom

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

Listen up you idiot zoomers who think people can still make meaningful queer art past the year 2000. We all need to sit around and read USamerican comic strips from the 90s because those are pretty much the only true capture of the universal gay experience now and forever, and anything past that is unimportant schlock. And like pinkwashing I think. We have to learn queer history, thats why we need to all ignore that what Im talking about is joke comic strips from the 90s and instead revere them as the most important work created, with nothing capable of surpassing it. Anyway

#Sorry this stuff is driving me insane I am literally so sick of this shit. I know Ive complained about it before. #Maybe I dont want to spend the rest of my life only watching shit from the 70s/80s/90s by people who are old enough to be my grandparents! #Maybe I want to see shit being made in the present day! Fuck! #Why should we all try to recapture the Bygone Glory of the NYC Gay Scene Of The 80s. #Knowing history is important but you know we also have the current reality of now to deal with. ok anyway. #also on what this is about I hate h/ome/st/uck so much its unreal but people getting really mad about a tumblr poll result #and like it winning over dykes to watch out for which like is comic strips. like #as someone who read h/ome/stuck all the way through. it is queer. Like it did say some resonant stuff. #It does feature a bunch of teenagers realizing theyre gay. #ANYWAY

[popeyesmith]

Jungle Jim Is A Ramblin' Man...And Quite the Charmer

No one could mistake master artist Alex Raymond for a photo-feminist. In his and scribe Don Moore’s dual successes of the 1930s, Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim, barely-clad distressed damsels abounded. To be sure, Raymond understood better than any comic strip artist the erotic potential of the formal, His male and female bodies were delicious. But it also goes almost without saying that the…

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#adventure strips #Alex Raymond #comic strips #history #women in comics

[beyondthespheres]

For Black History Month, some of my favorite dresses drawn by Jackie Ormes (1911 - 1985), the first nationally syndicated African American female cartoonist. 

#Jackie Ormes #Black History Month #Comics #Newspaper Strips