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.
4.28.1887: Charles Voight, the creator of Betty (1920-1943), a glamour-girl comic, is born in Brooklyn, New York.
4.28.1911: Lee Falk is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He gave comics fans Mandrake the Magician (1934-2013) and The Phantom (1936-present).
4.28.1966: Gladys Parker, the creator of Mopsy, dies of lung cancer. She was 56. A strip about an independent, witty woman, Mopsy debuted in 1939 and remained in print until 1965.
4.28.1990: Edwina Dumm dies in Santa Rosa, California, at 96 or 97. She created Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a comic about the adventures of a boy and his dog that ran from 1918 to 1966. Dumm is a member of the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame.
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.4.28.1911: Lee Falk is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He gave comics fans Mandrake the Magician (1934-2013) and The Phantom (1936-present).
4.28.1966: Gladys Parker, the creator of Mopsy, dies of lung cancer. She was 56. A strip about an independent, witty woman, Mopsy debuted in 1939 and remained in print until 1965.
4.28.1990: Edwina Dumm dies in Santa Rosa, California, at 96 or 97. She created Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a comic about the adventures of a boy and his dog that ran from 1918 to 1966. Dumm is a member of the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame.
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