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.
4.8.1948: Bill Mauldin’s Willie and Joe, U.S. Army infantrymen, are discharged from the comics pages, although Mauldin occasionally drew them in the years that followed.
4.8.1984: Stuart Hample’s Inside Woody Allen, a strip about the filmmaker and comedian, is canceled less than eight years after it began.
4.8.1998: Lee Elias, a comic-book artist who also drew the Beyond Mars newspaper strip, dies. He was 77 years old.
4.8.2014: The Library of American Comics releases the first volume in a three-volume set reproducing the Batman strip, which ran from 1967 to 1972.
4.8.2020: Mort Drucker, best known for his work for Mad magazine over the course of more than five decades, dies in Woodbury, New York, at 91. Drucker got his start in cartooning by assisting Bert Whitman on the newspaper comic strip Debbie Dean in 1947. Between 1984 and 1987, Drucker collaborated with Jerry Dumas (and John Reiner) on the daily comic strip Benchley, which spoofed President Ronald Reagan.
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.
4.8.1948: Bill Mauldin’s Willie and Joe, U.S. Army infantrymen, are discharged from the comics pages, although Mauldin occasionally drew them in the years that followed.
4.8.1984: Stuart Hample’s Inside Woody Allen, a strip about the filmmaker and comedian, is canceled less than eight years after it began.
4.8.1998: Lee Elias, a comic-book artist who also drew the Beyond Mars newspaper strip, dies. He was 77 years old.
4.8.2014: The Library of American Comics releases the first volume in a three-volume set reproducing the Batman strip, which ran from 1967 to 1972.
4.8.2020: Mort Drucker, best known for his work for Mad magazine over the course of more than five decades, dies in Woodbury, New York, at 91. Drucker got his start in cartooning by assisting Bert Whitman on the newspaper comic strip Debbie Dean in 1947. Between 1984 and 1987, Drucker collaborated with Jerry Dumas (and John Reiner) on the daily comic strip Benchley, which spoofed President Ronald Reagan.
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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