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.
10.30.1942: The Berrys, a family strip drawn by Carl Grubert, begins its 32-year run.
10.30.1960: For the first time in Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, Linus van Pelt mistakes something else — in this case, Snoopy — for the Great Pumpkin.
10.30.2003: Residents of Pittsburgh react angrily to a Get Fuzzy strip that implies the city smells bad. Cartoonist Darby Conley, who received hate mail, later issued an apology of sorts in the strip, claiming in part that some people say New Jersey smells even worse than Pittsburgh.
10.30.1942: The Berrys, a family strip drawn by Carl Grubert, begins its 32-year run.
10.30.1960: For the first time in Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, Linus van Pelt mistakes something else — in this case, Snoopy — for the Great Pumpkin.
10.30.2003: Residents of Pittsburgh react angrily to a Get Fuzzy strip that implies the city smells bad. Cartoonist Darby Conley, who received hate mail, later issued an apology of sorts in the strip, claiming in part that some people say New Jersey smells even worse than Pittsburgh.
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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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