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.
11.29:1904: Irving Phillips, creator of The Strange World of Mr. Mum (1958-1974), is born in Wilton, Wisconsin.
11.29.1953: Cartoonist Milt Gross dies aboard an ocean liner while returning from a vacation. His work, which included Count Screwloose of Tooloose, is noted for its exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish-inflected English dialogue.
11.29.1958: Room and Board, a strip that Gene Ahern created in 1936, ends its run. The comic was a continuation of an earlier Ahern strip, Our Boarding House.
11.29.1963: Today’s Miss Peach strip is pulled from syndication because one of the students in the school-based strip fantasizes about saving the life of the president of the United States — one week after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Mel Lazarus drew the strip before the assassination.
11.29.1953: Cartoonist Milt Gross dies aboard an ocean liner while returning from a vacation. His work, which included Count Screwloose of Tooloose, is noted for its exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish-inflected English dialogue.
11.29.1958: Room and Board, a strip that Gene Ahern created in 1936, ends its run. The comic was a continuation of an earlier Ahern strip, Our Boarding House.
11.29.1963: Today’s Miss Peach strip is pulled from syndication because one of the students in the school-based strip fantasizes about saving the life of the president of the United States — one week after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Mel Lazarus drew the strip before the assassination.
11.29.2009: The Library of America releases Family Circus Library, Volume 1, which reprints the first two years of Bill Keane’s strip.
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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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