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.
2.2.1914: Abraham Kabibble, the first Jewish protagonist in an American comic strip, debuts in Harry Hershfield’s Abie the Agent.
2.2.1916: Al McWilliams, the artist who created Dateline: Danger! with writer John Saunders, and Twin Earths with writer Oskar Lebeck, is born in New York City.
2.2.1938: Donald Duck gets his own daily strip, followed by a Sunday page on December 10, 1939.
2.2.1952: Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby ends its decade-long run. Johnson is best known for his children's book, Harold and the Purple Crayon.
2.2.1957: Robert Moore Brinkerhoff retires Little Mary Mixup, which premiered in 1918 as a gag-a-day strip starring a mischievous nine-year-old girl. The daily version of the strip developed a different format over time.
2.2.1971: U.S. Army Sergeant Orville Snorkel has long had a penchant for beating up Beetle, a lazy private in Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey. Snorkel's violence takes an extreme turn today when he shoves Beetle through a knothole in the floorboard.
2.2.2008: They’ll Do It Every Time makes its last appearance as a daily strip after 79 years in print.
2.2.2008: Mexican-American artist Gustavo "Gus" Arriola dies in Carmel, California, at 90. His strip Gordo introduced American readers to Mexican culture.
2.2.2008: Mark Pett’s Lucky Cow, a comic about a fictional fast food chain, ends its five-year run.
2.2.1916: Al McWilliams, the artist who created Dateline: Danger! with writer John Saunders, and Twin Earths with writer Oskar Lebeck, is born in New York City.
2.2.1938: Donald Duck gets his own daily strip, followed by a Sunday page on December 10, 1939.
2.2.1952: Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby ends its decade-long run. Johnson is best known for his children's book, Harold and the Purple Crayon.
2.2.1957: Robert Moore Brinkerhoff retires Little Mary Mixup, which premiered in 1918 as a gag-a-day strip starring a mischievous nine-year-old girl. The daily version of the strip developed a different format over time.
2.2.1971: U.S. Army Sergeant Orville Snorkel has long had a penchant for beating up Beetle, a lazy private in Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey. Snorkel's violence takes an extreme turn today when he shoves Beetle through a knothole in the floorboard.
2.2.2008: They’ll Do It Every Time makes its last appearance as a daily strip after 79 years in print.
2.2.2008: Mexican-American artist Gustavo "Gus" Arriola dies in Carmel, California, at 90. His strip Gordo introduced American readers to Mexican culture.
2.2.2008: Mark Pett’s Lucky Cow, a comic about a fictional fast food chain, ends its five-year run.
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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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