Who created the cartoon strip “The Perishers”?
"out of print quickly. In 1979, 20 5-minute animated shorts featuring the strip's characters were made by Bill Melendez Productions (coincidentally, the same studio behind the ""Peanuts"" animated specials) for the BBC. Around 1980 an LP record album entitled ""THE PERISHERS SING! (WELL SORT OF)"" was issued by Response Records. The lyrics written by Maurice Dodd and the music by Trevor Evan Jones. An instrumental version of the final track ""It's Great to be a Kid"" was also the theme music for the animated TV version. Dodd's official website claims 12 songs were penned, but the finished album only contained"
"Matt Groening Matthew Abraham Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip ""Life in Hell"" (1977–2012) and the television series ""The Simpsons"" (1989–present), ""Futurama"" (1999–2003, 2008–2013), and ""Disenchantment"" (2018–present). ""The Simpsons"" is the longest-running U.S. primetime-television series in history and the longest-running U.S. animated series and sitcom. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of ""Life in Hell"" to the avant-garde ""Wet"" magazine in 1978. At its peak, the cartoon was carried in 250 weekly newspapers. ""Life in Hell"" caught the attention of"
"published by British newspaper ""The Daily Telegraph"". He received the 2,459th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14, 2012. Matt Groening Matthew Abraham Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip ""Life in Hell"" (1977–2012) and the television series ""The Simpsons"" (1989–present), ""Futurama"" (1999–2003, 2008–2013), and ""Disenchantment"" (2018–present). ""The Simpsons"" is the longest-running U.S. primetime-television series in history and the longest-running U.S. animated series and sitcom. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of ""Life in Hell"" to the avant-garde"
"Percy Crosby Percy Lee Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964) was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip ""Skippy"". Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's ""Peanuts"", the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a ""classic... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson."" Humorist Corey Ford, writing in ""Vanity Fair"", praised the strip as ""America's most important contribution to humor of the"
"Noel Sickles Noel Douglas Sickles (January 24, 1910 – October 3, 1982) was an American commercial illustrator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip ""Scorchy Smith"". Sickles was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Largely self-taught, his career began as a political cartoonist for the ""Ohio State Journal"" in the late 1920s. At that time he met and shared a studio with cartoonist Milton Caniff, then working for the ""Columbus Dispatch"". Sickles followed Caniff, creator of the ""Terry and the Pirates"" comic strip, to New York City in 1933, where both men initially worked as staff artists for the Associated Press."
"Punisher The Punisher (Francis ""Frank"" Castle, born Castiglione) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Gerry Conway and artists John Romita Sr. and Ross Andru, with publisher Stan Lee green-lighting the name. The Punisher made his first appearance in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" #129 (cover-dated February 1974). The character is an Italian-American vigilante who employs murder, kidnapping, extortion, coercion, threats of violence, and torture in his campaign against crime. Driven by the deaths of his wife and two children who were killed by the mob for witnessing a killing"
"Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers was an American gag-a-day celebrity comics comic strip by Stuart Carothers and later Elzie C. Segar starring Charlie Chaplin. It ran in syndication from 1915 until 1917. It was one of the earliest comic strips inspired by the popularity of a celebrity. ""Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers"" was published in the ""Chicago Herald"". The comic strip cashed in on the tremendous popularity of the comedian at the time. It was created by Stuart Carothers in March 1915, who drew and wrote the stories until his tragic early death from defenestration. Two cartoonists named"
"Ralph Steadman and Rick Brookes. The programme was repeated on 13 May 2012. Dickens died on 8 July 2016 after a long illness. Frank Dickens Frank William Huline-Dickens (9 December 1931 – 8 July 2016) was a British cartoonist, best known for his strip ""Bristow"", which ran for 51 years in the ""Evening Standard"" and was syndicated internationally. According to ""Guinness World Records"", ""Bristow"" was the longest running daily cartoon strip by a single author.When looking at the character Bristow itself the series is even one year older than that, as Bristow debuted in Dickens' older series ""Oddbod"" in ""The"
"1964, after a heart attack that had left him in a coma for months, Crosby died in the asylum on his 73rd birthday. He was buried in Pine Lawn Veterans' Cemetery on Long Island. Percy Crosby Percy Lee Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964) was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip ""Skippy"". Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's ""Peanuts"", the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a ""classic... which innovated"
"Ross County, Ohio. In 1983, Sickles was posthumously inducted into the Society of Illustrators hall of fame. Noel Sickles Noel Douglas Sickles (January 24, 1910 – October 3, 1982) was an American commercial illustrator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip ""Scorchy Smith"". Sickles was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Largely self-taught, his career began as a political cartoonist for the ""Ohio State Journal"" in the late 1920s. At that time he met and shared a studio with cartoonist Milton Caniff, then working for the ""Columbus Dispatch"". Sickles followed Caniff, creator of the ""Terry and the Pirates"" comic strip, to"
"Terry and the Pirates (comic strip) Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. Captain Joseph Patterson, editor for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, had admired Caniff's work on the children's adventure strip ""Dickie Dare"" and hired him to create the new adventure strip, providing Caniff with the title and locale. The Dragon Lady leads the evil pirates; conflict with the pirates was diminished in priority when World War II started. The strip was read by 31 million newspaper subscribers between 1934 and 1946. In 1946, Caniff won the first Cartoonist of"
"remember us with the affecshun we feel for you."" The tone of the strip is reminiscent of Charles M. Schulz's final ""Peanuts"" strip, from which the Perishers strip took its inspiration. The strip was initially replaced by the short-lived ""Ronaldinho"", during the then-ongoing World Cup. After the tournament, the American ""Pooch Cafe"" appeared as a more permanent replacement. After a gap of nearly four years, the original cartoon strip returned to the ""Daily Mirror"" as reprints, on 22 February 2010. Additionally, over the years there have been a number of cheaply printed reprint collections in paperback, all of which went"
"of readers led to the strip ending in 1970. The cartoon strip was written and drawn by John Hix from 1928 until his health began to deteriorate in the early 1940s and Dick Kirby began drawing the strip, although Hix continued to oversee and approve all content. John Hix died of myocarditis on June 6, 1944 (which was also D-Day). His brother, Ernest Hix, took over producing the feature. The cartoons were drawn by Dick Kirby from 1944 to 1946, then by Doug Heyes from 1946 to 1948. After Ernest Hix's death in the crash of a private plane on"
"George Herriman George Joseph Herriman (August 22, 1880 – April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip ""Krazy Kat"" (1913–1944). More influential than popular, ""Krazy Kat"" had an appreciative audience among those in the arts. Gilbert Seldes' article ""The Krazy Kat Who Walks by Himself"" was the earliest example of a critic from the high arts giving serious attention to a comic strip. ""The Comics Journal"" placed the strip first on its list of the greatest comics of the 20th century. Herriman's work has been a primary influence on cartoonists such as Will Eisner, Charles"
"Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York. As illustrator; children's chapter books written by John Shearer Ted Shearer Thaddeus ""Ted"" Shearer (November 1, 1919 – December 26, 1992) was an African-American advertising art director and cartoonist whose 1970–1986 ""Quincy"" was one of the earliest mainstream comic strips to star an African American in the lead role. Shearer was born in May Pen, Jamaica, to parents Samuel and Sophie (née Parnell), and raised from infancy in the Harlem area of Manhattan, New York City. From a young age, his ambition was to produce a comic strip. While attending DeWitt Clinton"
"Fred Dickenson. Some sequences were also written by Raymond. In 1956, Raymond was killed in a car crash. King Features quickly needed a replacement and found it in John Prentice. Dickenson continued to write the series until the mid-1980s when he was forced to retire for health reasons. Prentice then took over the writing along with others. Prentice kept the strip going until his own death in 1999. The strip ended with Rip's retirement on June 26, 1999. Prentice received the National Cartoonists Society Story Comic Strip Award for 1966, 1967, and 1986 for his work on the strip. Over"
"Chuck Dixon Charles Dixon (born April 14, 1954) is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on the Marvel Comics character the Punisher and on the DC Comics characters Batman, Nightwing, and Robin in the 1990s and early 2000s. Chuck Dixon's earliest comics work was writing ""Evangeline"" for in 1984 and then for First Comics. Editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics' ""Savage Sword of Conan"". Writing under the name ""Charles Dixon"", he would eventually take over the lead feature of Conan on a semi-regular basis. He contributed stories to the Larry"
"or in the hospital. Dallis died in July 1991. Woody Wilson became the writer. His name appeared in September 1991. From 1948 to 1978, the strip was drawn by Marvin Bradley, with backgrounds by John Frank Edgington. Edgington retired in 1976. Their team was succeeded from 1979 to 1981 by former ""Terry and the Pirates"" assistant Frank Springer. Fernando Da Silva briefly took over the strip in 1982, then in 1983 Tony DiPreta became the main artist. In 2000, long-time DC Comics artist Graham Nolan began a 13-year stint. On 30 December 2013, Terry Beatty made his debut as the"
"Frank Dickens Frank William Huline-Dickens (9 December 1931 – 8 July 2016) was a British cartoonist, best known for his strip ""Bristow"", which ran for 51 years in the ""Evening Standard"" and was syndicated internationally. According to ""Guinness World Records"", ""Bristow"" was the longest running daily cartoon strip by a single author.When looking at the character Bristow itself the series is even one year older than that, as Bristow debuted in Dickens' older series ""Oddbod"" in ""The Sunday Times"" in 1960. Due to his popularity he received his own spin-off series soon afterwards. Dickens broke the original record held by"
"Garth Ennis Garth Ennis (born 16 January 1970) is a Northern Irish-born naturalized American comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series ""Preacher"" with artist Steve Dillon and his nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise. He has collaborated with artists such as Dillon and Glenn Fabry on ""Preacher"", John McCrea on ""Hitman"", Marc Silvestri on ""The Darkness"", and Carlos Ezquerra on both ""Preacher"" and ""Hitman"". Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series ""Troubled Souls"". Appearing in the short-lived but critically acclaimed British anthology ""Crisis"" and illustrated by John McCrea, it told the story of a young,"
"The Born Loser The Born Loser is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965. His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist. The strip is distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association. The Sansoms won the 1987 National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award and the 1990 Newspaper Comic Strip Award. Art Sansom created ""The Born Loser"" after spending 20 years churning out the illustrations on his syndicate's serious strips. He originally titled it ""The Loser"", but under the urging of the syndicate, renamed it ""The Born Loser"". The dailies started"
"added to the syndicate. Vermeer worked on the family strip for almost 30 years, before his retirement in 1976. The strip was inspired by Vermeer's own family. Vermeer was succeeded by cartoonist Ed Sullivan, who worked on ""Priscilla's Pop"" until the end of the comic strip's run in 1983. Al Vermeer died in 1980 in Humboldt, California. Al Vermeer Albert Hermann Vermeer (1911–1980), known as Al Vermeer, was an American cartoonist. Vermeer created the comic strip ""Priscilla's Pop"". Al Vermeer was born in Alameda, California in 1911 to Dutch immigrant parents from Utrecht, Netherlands. While growing up in Oakland, Vermeer"
"to it, with Cathy and her co-workers enthusing over the film and seeing it repeatedly. Cathy Guisewite Cathy Lee Guisewite (born September 5, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip ""Cathy"", which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, ""the four basic guilt groups."" Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio to William L. and Anne Guisewite. She was raised in Midland, Michigan with older sister Mary Anne Nagy and younger sister Mickey."
"Allen Bert Christman Allen Bert Christman (May 31, 1915 – January 23, 1942), known professionally as Bert Christman, was an American cartoonist and naval aviator. He is best known as artist of the newspaper comic strip ""Scorchy Smith"", about a pilot-adventurer in the inter-war years. He was also credited with co-creating the original, Wesley Dodds version of the DC Comics character the Sandman. Artist Bert Christman and writer Gardner Fox are generally credited as co-creating the original, Wesley Dodd version of the DC Comics character the Sandman. While the character's first appearance is usually given as ""Adventure Comics"" #40 (cover-dated"
"who assumed responsibility for the strip upon his death. They received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for best humor comic strip in 1987 and 1991. He is buried in Lakewood Park Cemetery in Rocky River, Ohio. Art Sansom Arthur B. Sansom (September 16, 1920 – July 4, 1991), better known as Art Sansom, was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip ""The Born Loser"". He was born in East Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating with an art degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1942, Sansom worked as an engineer/draftsman for General Electric. Sansom created the strip"
"Cathy Guisewite Cathy Lee Guisewite (born September 5, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip ""Cathy"", which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, ""the four basic guilt groups."" Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio to William L. and Anne Guisewite. She was raised in Midland, Michigan with older sister Mary Anne Nagy and younger sister Mickey. Guisewite graduated from Midland High School in 1968. She attended the University of Michigan at"
"Art Sansom Arthur B. Sansom (September 16, 1920 – July 4, 1991), better known as Art Sansom, was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip ""The Born Loser"". He was born in East Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating with an art degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1942, Sansom worked as an engineer/draftsman for General Electric. Sansom created the strip ""Chris Welkin—Planeteer"" with Russ Winterbotham which ran from 1952 until 1964. In 1965, he created ""The Born Loser"" for the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In the mid-1980s, he was assisted on the strip by his son Chip Sansom,"
"Howard Post Howard ""Howie"" Post (November 2, 1926 – May 21, 2010) was an American animator, cartoonist, and comic strip and comic book writer-artist. Post is known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip ""The Dropouts"" which had a 13-year run and for creating DC Comics' ""Anthro"". Born in New York City, Post grew up in the Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay neighborhoods of Brooklyn and then in The Bronx. In a 1999 interview, he recalled his start in drawing and his father's influence: As a teenager, Post attended the Hastings School of Animation, in New York City. When he was"
"Phil Frank Phil Frank (March 27, 1943 – September 13, 2007) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the San Francisco-based comic strip ""Farley"" and the artist on nationally syndicated comic strip ""The Elderberries"". In addition to his Farley comic strip, Frank collaborated with writer Joe Troise on several comic strip projects: Frank started cartooning at Michigan State University first by creating illustrations on classmates jackets and then with the university newspaper for $5 a strip. After graduation and marriage he took a job as an illustrator and humorist with Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, where his"
"Life in Hell Life in Hell is a comic strip by Matt Groening, creator of ""The Simpsons,"" ""Disenchantment"" and ""Futurama"", which was published weekly from 1977 to 2012. The strip features anthropomorphic rabbits and a gay couple. The comic covers a wide range of subjects, such as love, sex, work, and death, and explores themes of angst, social alienation, self-loathing, and fear of inevitable doom. ""Life in Hell"" started in 1977 as a self-published comic book Groening used to describe life in Los Angeles to his friends. It was inspired by his move to the city that year; in an"
"portrayal of the British character. Annie Tempest Anne Valerie Tempest (born 22 August 1959), known as Annie Tempest, is a British artist and cartoonist initially known for her cartoon strip ""The Yuppies"" which ran for seven years in the ""Daily Mail"", and now for her strip ""Tottering-by-Gently"" which has appeared in ""Country Life"" magazine since 1993. Tempest was born the second of five children. Her father Henry was the second son of the Tempests of Broughton Hall, and she was born in Zambia. When she was two, her family came back to England. In 1970, her father inherited the Broughton"
"his greatest disappointment in life occurred when he was at a luncheon and sat across from cartoonist Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family. Larson was not able to think of a single thing to say to him and deeply regretted the missed opportunity. Addams died in 1988. Larson is an environmentalist. ""Protecting wildlife is 'at the top of my list,' he says."" Gary Larson Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist. He is the creator of ""The Far Side"", a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to over 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series"
"""Tillie the Toiler"" until 1959. Westover was 80 when he died in 1966 in San Rafael, California. His work is archived at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Russ Westover Russell Channing ""Russ"" Westover (March 8, 1886 – May 3, 1966) was a cartoonist best known for his long-run comic strip ""Tillie the Toiler"". Westover was born in Los Angeles, California. He recalled, ""When the time came... to make a living, father put me in one of the stores he owned. I used to wrap parcels, and I'd draw pictures on them. The customers liked it, but my father"