American
cartoonists and writers may not have invented the comic strip, but some
argue that the comics, as we know them today, are an American creation.
Clearly, the United States has played an outsize role in the
development of this underappreciated art form.
8.30.1903: Oskar Lebeck is born in Germany. He was the co-creator (with Al McWilliams) of Twin Earths (1952-1963), a science fiction strip in which aliens from another Earth on the opposite side of the sun visit our planet.
8.30.1942: Fearless Fosdick, a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, debuts in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner, as a strip within a strip.
8.30.2015: Brad Anderson, who brought the Great Dane Marmaduke into the comics world, dies in The Woodlands, Texas, at 91.
Most of the information listed here from one day to the next comes from two online sites -- Wikipedia, and Don Markstein's Toonopedia -- as well as 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics, edited by Maurice Horn. Note that my focus is on American newspaper comic strips (and the occasional foreign strip that gained popularity in the United States). Thus, comic books and exclusively online comics are not included here.
8.30.2015: Brad Anderson, who brought the Great Dane Marmaduke into the comics world, dies in The Woodlands, Texas, at 91.
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Most of the information listed here from one day to the next comes from two online sites -- Wikipedia, and Don Markstein's Toonopedia -- as well as 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics, edited by Maurice Horn. Note that my focus is on American newspaper comic strips (and the occasional foreign strip that gained popularity in the United States). Thus, comic books and exclusively online comics are not included here.
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