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.
6.18.1954: Editor, publisher, and designer Dean Mullaney is born. He established The Library of American Comics at IDW Publishing, to produce hardcover collections of comic strips. The imprint debuted with the 2007 book The Complete Terry and the Pirates, Vol. 1: 1934-1936, by Milton Caniff.
6.18.1962: Belvedere, a single-panel comic staring a white dog with black spots, debuts. Created by George Webster Crenshaw, it ran until 1995.
6.18.1980: Jack Moore retires Kelly & Duke, a comic about a boy named Kelly; his anthropomorphic dog Duke; and Roscoe, a beatnik cat. It launched in 1972.
6.18.1981: Joanie Caucus and Rick Redfern marry in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury.
6.18.1954: Editor, publisher, and designer Dean Mullaney is born. He established The Library of American Comics at IDW Publishing, to produce hardcover collections of comic strips. The imprint debuted with the 2007 book The Complete Terry and the Pirates, Vol. 1: 1934-1936, by Milton Caniff.
6.18.1962: Belvedere, a single-panel comic staring a white dog with black spots, debuts. Created by George Webster Crenshaw, it ran until 1995.
6.18.1980: Jack Moore retires Kelly & Duke, a comic about a boy named Kelly; his anthropomorphic dog Duke; and Roscoe, a beatnik cat. It launched in 1972.
6.18.1981: Joanie Caucus and Rick Redfern marry in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury.
6.18.1982: The musical film Annie is released. It was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on Harold Gray’s comic strip, Little Orphan Annie.
6.18.2000: Jules Feiffer’s strip Feiffer ends its run after more than 40 years. Originally titled Sick Sick Sick, it became Feiffer's Fables and then, finally, Feiffer.
6.18.2006: Henry Beckett and Carla Ventresca launch On a Claire Day, a gag-a-day strip starring Claire Bennett, a young woman who has left her parents’ home to live on her own.
6.18.2013: The Library of American Comics releases Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Vol. 1 (1967-1969), launching a four-volume set.
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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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