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.
2.27.1938: Johnny Gruelle’s Brutus, which launched in 1929, ends its run. A domestic strip, Brutus starred Brutus Dudd, his wife Cleo, their dog Julius Caesar and a cat named Marc Antony.
2.27.1987: Bill Holman, creator of the screwball comedy strip Smokey Stover, dies in New York City at 83. He once described himself as "always inclined to humor and acting silly."
2.27.1987: Darrell McClure, who worked on Little Annie Rooney from 1930 to 1966, dies in Talmage, California. He was 84.
2.27.2020: The Bangor Daily News in Bangor, Maine, apologizes for running what the newspaper calls a racist Close to Home cartoon on February 21 “which showed an especially ugly version of the bigoted Lone-Ranger-and-Tonto imagery” that offended many readers and the newspaper itself. The apology comes after some newspapers in Canada stopped publishing Close to Home, for the same reasons. Cartoonist John McPherson and the syndicate that distributes the strip apologized.
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.
2.27.1987: Bill Holman, creator of the screwball comedy strip Smokey Stover, dies in New York City at 83. He once described himself as "always inclined to humor and acting silly."
2.27.1987: Darrell McClure, who worked on Little Annie Rooney from 1930 to 1966, dies in Talmage, California. He was 84.
2.27.2020: The Bangor Daily News in Bangor, Maine, apologizes for running what the newspaper calls a racist Close to Home cartoon on February 21 “which showed an especially ugly version of the bigoted Lone-Ranger-and-Tonto imagery” that offended many readers and the newspaper itself. The apology comes after some newspapers in Canada stopped publishing Close to Home, for the same reasons. Cartoonist John McPherson and the syndicate that distributes the strip apologized.
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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