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.
10.19.1893: William Donahey, creator of The Teenie Weenies (1914-1979), is born in West Chester, Ohio. The strip was about two-inch-tall people living under a rose bush.
10.19.1952: In Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, which launched in 1950, Snoopy dances on two legs for the first time.
10.19.2010: The Library of American Comics releases the first of two volumes reprinting the earliest years of Chic Young’s Blondie.
10.19.2014: Freshly Squeezed, a cartoon by Ed Stein about multi-generational families, draws to a close after four years.
10.19.1952: In Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, which launched in 1950, Snoopy dances on two legs for the first time.
10.19.2010: The Library of American Comics releases the first of two volumes reprinting the earliest years of Chic Young’s Blondie.
10.19.2014: Freshly Squeezed, a cartoon by Ed Stein about multi-generational families, draws to a close after four years.
10.19.2023: Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts honors George Herriman’s classic Krazy Kat strip when Mooch, the cat in Mutts, asks his dog pal Earl what day it is. The second panel shows Ignatz Mouse tossing a brick at Krazy Kat, as he often did in Herriman's comic, prompting Earl to tell Mooch in the third panel that it’s “Throwback Thursday.”
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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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