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Comic Strip#REDIRECT The Comic Strip Comic strip:''This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. There is a separate article about The Comic Strip.'' A comic strip is a short strip or sequence of drawings, telling a story. Drawn by a cartoonist, they are published on a recurring basis (usually daily or weekly) in newspapers or on the Internet. In the UK and Europe they are also published within comic magazine, with a strip's story sometimes continuing over three pages or more. They usually communicate to the reader via speech balloons. As the name implies, they can be humorous (as in "gag-a-day" strips like ''Beetle Bailey'', ''Hi & Lois'', or ''Hagar the Horrible'') but not by necessity. Serious soap-opera continuity strips (like ''Judge Parker'' or ''Little Orphan Annie'') have serious story lines in serial form. They are, however, nonetheless known as "comics" – though the term "sequential art", coined by cartoonist Will Eisner, is becoming increasingly popular. ==Origins== In America, the great popularity of comics sprang from the newspaper war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. ''The Little Bears'' (the first United States comic with recurring characters), ''The Yellow Kid'' (the first color comic, part of the first Sunday comic section in 1897, and the root of the term "yellow journalism"), and ''Mutt and Jeff'' was the first daily comic strip, first appearing in 1907. The comic strip, in a manner of speaking, began in 1865 in Germany with ''Max and Moritz'', a strip about two trouble-making boys. It was more a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories like "Struwwelpeter" ("Shockheaded Peter"): in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill, and consumed by a flock of geese. ''Max and Moritz'' did provide an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, leading to the debut of ''The Katzenjammer Kids'' in 1897, probably the first comic strip in the modern sense of the term. Familiar comic-strip iconography such as stars for pain, speech and thought balloons, and sawing logs for snoring originated in Dirks' strip. Hugely popular, ''Katzenjammer Kids'' was responsible for one of the first comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium. When Dirks left Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Pulitzer (unusual, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst) Hearst in a highly unusual court decision retained the rights to the name "Katzenjammer Kids", while creator Dirks retained the rights to the characters. Hearst promptly hired a cartoonist named Harold Knerr to draw his own version of the strip. Dirks renamed his version ''Hans and Fritz'' (later, ''The Captain and The Kids''). Thus, two versions distributed by rival syndicates graced the comics pages for decades. Dirks' version, eventually distributed by United Feature Syndicate, ran until 1979. Hundreds of comic strips followed, with many running for decades. ==Conventions and genres== Most comic strip characters stay the same age throughout the strip's life, but in strips like Lynn Johnston's award-winning ''For Better or For Worse'' characters age. The first strip to feature aging characters was ''Gasoline Alley''. The history of comic strips also includes series that are not humorous, but tell an ongoing dramatic story. Examples include ''Prince Valiant'', ''Dick Tracy'', ''Mary Worth (comic)'', ''Modesty Blaise'' and ''Tarzan''. Sometimes these are spin-offs from comic books, for example ''Superman'', ''Batman'', and ''The Amazing Spider-Man''. All the comic strips mentioned so far in this article are centered on human beings, but a number of strips have also included animals as main characters. Some are non-verbal (''Marmaduke''), some have verbal thoughts but aren't understood by humans, (''Garfield'', Snoopy in ''Peanuts''), and some can converse with humans (''Get Fuzzy''). Other strips have centered entirely on animals, as in ''Pogo'' or ''Donald Duck''. Gary Larson's Far Side was unique, as there were no central characters. Instead The Far Side used a wide variety of characters such as humans, monsters, Extraterrestrial life, chickens, cows, worm, amoeba and more. Wiley Miller not only mixes human, animal and fantasy characters, he does several different comic strip continuities under one umbrella title, Non Sequitur (comic strip). Newspaper comic strips come in two formats, daily strips and Sunday strips. Daily strips usually run Monday through Saturday, and are usually in black and white. Sunday strips are much larger and are usually in color. ==Social and political influence== The comics have long held a distorted mirror to contemporary society, and almost from the beginning have been used for political or social commentary. This ranged from the staunch conservative values of ''Little Orphan Annie'' to the unabashed liberalism of ''Doonesbury''. The aforementioned ''Pogo'' used animals to particularly devastating effect, caricaturing many prominent politicians of the day as animal denizens of Pogo's Okeefenokee Swamp. In a fearless move, Pogo's creator Walt Kelly took on Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, caricaturing him as a bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey, a megalomaniac bent on taking over the characters' birdwatching club and rooting out all undesirables. Kelly also defended the medium against possible government regulation in the McCarthy era. At a time when comic books were coming under fire for supposed sexual, violent, and subversive content, Kelly feared the same would happen to comic strips. Going before the congressional subcommittee, he proceeded to charm the members with his drawings and the force of his personality. The comic strip was safe for satire. Some comic strips, such as ''Doonesbury'' and ''Boondocks'', are often printed on the editorial or op-ed page rather than the comics page, because of their regular political commentary. The world's longest comic strip is 88.9 metres long and on display at Trafalgar Square as part of the London Comedy Festival. The record was previously 81 metres and held in Florida. The London Cartoon Strip was created by fifteen of United Kingdom best known cartoonists and depicts the history of London. The Reuben Award, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is the most prestigious award for U.S. comic strip artists. Reuben awards are presented annually by the National Cartoonists' Society (NCS). Today's comic-strip artists, with the help of the NCS, enthusiastically promote the medium, which is considered to be in decline due to fewer markets and ever-shrinking newspaper space. One particularly humorous example of such promotional efforts is the Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie, held on April Fool's Day, 1997. For that day, dozens of prominent comic-strip artists took over each other's strips. ''Garfield''’s Jim Davis, for example, switched with ''Blondie (comic strip)''’s Stan Drake, while Scott Adams (''Dilbert'') traded strips with Bil Keane (''The Family Circus''). Even the United States Postal Service got into the act, issuing a series of commemorative stamps marking the comic-strip centennial in 1996. ==Internet comics== The advent of the World Wide Web in the 1990s led to an explosion of amateur web comics, comic strips created solely for Web sites. Web comics differ from published comic strips, in that anyone can start his own comic strip and publish it on the Web; there is no longer any need to for a creator to meet the approval of a publisher or syndicate. Currently there are hundreds of web comics, most of which are low-quality and sporadically updated. However, a number of web comics have endured, and the best web comics rival their newspaper and magazine counterparts in terms of quality and quantity. ''Megatokyo'', ''Penny Arcade (comic)'', ''PvP'', ''Sluggy Freelance'', and ''User Friendly'' are considered to be among the best of the web comics. The majority of traditional newspaper comic strips now have some Internet presence. Syndicates often provide archives of recent strips on their websites. Scott Adams, creator of ''Dilbert'', started a trend by including his e-mail address in each strip. ==Related articles== *List of comic strips *Comic book *List of movies based on comic strips *Web comic *Yonkoma - Japanese comic strip ==External links== *[http://forums.delphiforums.com/bhob2 Fusebox Vintage Newspaper Comic Strips] *[http://www.HavenWorks.com/comics/links HavenWorks' list of comic strips available online] *[http://cartoons.osu.edu/ Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library] *[http://www.reuben.org/ncs/awards2.asp Reuben Awards] Comic strips Comics Pop culture Comic stripWould it be a good idea to sort these a bit? Some (like Bizarro) are single-frame comics, others (like Calvin & Hobbes) are single-strip comics, and finally others (like Prince Valiant) have long storylines. Or are there better ways? --User:Pinkunicorn :Personally, I would sort Bizarro as a "cartoon", and "Prince Valiant" as a plain "comic", in my book, only comics in strip-form (Such as "Calvin & Hobbes" and "Snoopy") should be considered "comic strips". ::Note that it isn't because of the long storyline, but because of the full-page format, comics such as "Rip Kirby" and "Modesty Blaise" are still "comic strips" in my book... ''I think the single, general alphabetic list is useful too. So if you want to add a different :scheme, please don't replace the current one.''--User:LA2 Someone knowledgeable enough about them could create alternative schemes and link to them from this page. I'm not that person though. ;-) There is also the idea of the comic book as a collection of comic strips. This would include British publications such as :Beano and :Whizzer and Chips. Watch out for those waves of childhood nostalgia... -- PJL Don't forget web comics. That's a topic that deserves it's own category. From kevin & Kell to Sluggy Freelance to Sinfest, some of the most interesting and amusing new talent is found only on the net as "traditional" avenues won't touch them. -- PAL ---- This ought to be moved to the more standard "List of comic strips". This would also serve to disambiguate it from the (more or less inevitable) article about the Comic Strip, a Channel 4 comedy series of the 80s. user:sjc OK, seems a good idea to me. No sooner said than done User:Malcolm Farmer == The Funnies == I'm trying to locate the origins if the term "the funnies." Can anyone point me in the right direction? nalilo :According to www.etymonline.com: "funnies "newspaper comic strips" is from 1852." The origins is probably that most of them were "funny", I'd guess that comic strips weren't particularly common by that time, the reference were originally to "cartoons". ----- The newly added line about the 'best' web comics is a little too POV. User:Ike9898 == Name of a comic strip frame == Could someone tell me what is the preferred term for a single frame, pane, or cell of a comic strip (i.e., that which there are typically three of in most Sunday funnies)? Thanks. — User:Jeffq 09:33, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I just looked in a half-dozen books of comic strip criticism. They all use the word "panel" to describe a single image, usually surrounded by a frame line, representing an instant of action. User:Gwil 06:41, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::Thanks a bunch! —User:Jeffq User talk:Jeffq 08:29, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) == French interwiki link == I am a Wikipedia newbie, and would like to conform to the rules. Not long ago, I added an interwiki link to the Comic strip article, leading to the French Wikipedia article "Bande dessinée". It was quickly removed, with the comment "removed interwikis to comics, not comic strips". Now, in French, "bande dessinée" is the most common phrase for either "comic book" or "comic strip". If you want to learn what French Wikipedia has to say about comic strips, the "bande dessinée" article is the place to start. That article even says, "Some specialists consider that the first ''bande dessinée'' in the world was ''Yellow Kid''...". So my question is, must interwikis link to exact synonyms, or can they link to the best matching article even if it's a broader term? User:Gwil 05:16, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Pehr Nordquist == I removed the paragraph "As early as 1801 established Swedish fine artist artist Pehr Nordquist, dead i Napels 1805, draw a two-page eight panel comic strip.", and I suppose it behooves me to explain why. There are many possible precursors to the modern comic strip. Pehr Nordquist, Willem Bilderdijk, Rodolphe Töpffer, Christophe (Georges Colomb), William Hogarth, Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poiré), A. B. Frost, Richard Doyle, Gustave Doré, Wilhelm Busch, Benjamin Rabier, and W. Fletcher Thomas have all been cited as forerunners. They all created sequential graphic narratives before the ''Yellow Kid''. Most of these narratives had captions under the pictures. As far as I know, none of them had speech balloons, and none of them was published on a regular schedule. Comics authority Thierry Groensteen, preparing an [http://www.comic.de/reporter/hildesheim/galerie2.html exhibition in Angoulême], chose Rodolphe Töpffer as the most important originator of the comic-strip form. E. Wiese titled his reprint of two Töpffer works "Enter: The Comics". Pehr Nordquist, by contrast, isn't even mentioned in the Swedish Wikipedia. According to the same account of Groensteen's choice, Nordquist's works remained confidential and unpublished (vertraulich und unveröffentlicht blieben). Why do we distinguish Wilhelm Busch from all the others, by mentioning ''Max and Moritz''? Because he had a clearly demonstrable influence on the earliest American comic strips. If Pehr Nordquist had even the slightest influence, I haven't heard about it. User:Gwil 04:29, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) See other meanings of words starting from letter: CCA | CB | CD | CE | CF | CG | CH | CI | CJ | CK | CL | CM | CN | CO | CP | CR | CS | CT | CU | CW | CX | CY | CZ |Words begining with Comic_strip: Comic-strip Comic_Strip Comic_strip Comic_strip Comic_Strips Comic_strips Comic_strips Comic_strips_of_Quebec Comic_Strip_Artist Comic_strip_cartoonists Comic_Strip_Classics Comic_Strip_Classics Comic_Strip_Classics_stamps Comic_strip_creator Comic_strip_switcheroo
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