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.
11.28.1947: Longtime Crankshaft artist Chuck Ayers is born. The ongoing strip about a curmudgeonly school bus driver debuted in 1987. Ayers drew it prior to April 2, 2017.
11.28.1985: Garry Trudeau, Charles Schulz, and Milton Caniff organize 175 syndicated cartoonists to focus attention on world hunger by devoting their Thanksgiving Day strips to the subject.
11.28.1985: Garry Trudeau, Charles Schulz, and Milton Caniff organize 175 syndicated cartoonists to focus attention on world hunger by devoting their Thanksgiving Day strips to the subject.
11.28.1993: Pogo, which was discontinued in 1975 but revived in 1989, draws to a close for a second and final time.
11.28.1994: Frank Robbins, the creator of Johnny Hazard (1944-1977), dies in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was 77 at the time of his death.
11.28.1994: Frank Robbins, the creator of Johnny Hazard (1944-1977), dies in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was 77 at the time of his death.
11.28.2014: Brumsic Brandon Jr., the creator of Luther, dies in Cocoa Beach, Florida. His strip about an African-American child, which ran from 1969 to 1986, was one of the first comics to star a black person in the lead role.
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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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