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.
4.10.1927: Brumsic Brandon Jr., the creator of Luther, is born in Washington, D.C. His strip about an African-American child, which ran from 1969 to 1986, was one of the first comics to star a black person in the lead role.
4.10.1966: Little Annie Rooney, which debuted in 1927, ends its run. Written and illustrated by several people over the years, the strip focused on an orphan girl and her dog Zero.
4.10.1927: Brumsic Brandon Jr., the creator of Luther, is born in Washington, D.C. His strip about an African-American child, which ran from 1969 to 1986, was one of the first comics to star a black person in the lead role.
4.10.1966: Little Annie Rooney, which debuted in 1927, ends its run. Written and illustrated by several people over the years, the strip focused on an orphan girl and her dog Zero.
4.10.1988: Bill Amend launches FoxTrot, a strip about the Fox family: parents Andrea and Roger and children Peter, Paige and Jason.
4.10.2023: Al Jaffee dies in New York City, at 102. Jaffee is best known for creating the Mad magazine Fold-in, but from 1957 to 1963 he drew the vertical newspaper comic panel Tall Tales.
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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