"""The Gambols"" with the ""Express"" running an intended final strip showing George and Gaye - along with Flivver and Miggy - evidently preparing to journey on in the family car. However the strip was picked up as of December 1999 by the ""Mail on Sunday"" for whom Mahoney has been drawing ""The Gambols"" ever since. The Gambols The Gambols is a British comic strip created by Barry Appleby which debuted 16 March 1950 in the ""Daily Express"" where it ran for almost 50 years: as of 1999 ""The Gambols"" has appeared in the ""Mail on Sunday"". From ""The Gambols""' inception"
"Irwin Caplan Irwin Caplan (May 24, 1919 – February 22, 2007), nicknamed Cap, was an American illustrator, painter, designer and cartoonist, best known as the creator of ""The Saturday Evening Post"" cartoon series, ""Famous Last Words"", which led to newspaper syndication of the feature in 1956. Caplan grew up in Seattle's Madison Park neighborhood where his parents took note of his drawings and enrolled him in art classes. As a teenager, Caplan won $10 in a citywide poster contest, and at Garfield High School, he illustrated the 1935 yearbook, ""The Arrow"". He painted murals of a circus and Paul Bunyan"
"Sidney Smith (cartoonist) Robert Sidney Smith (February 13, 1877 – October 20, 1935), known as Sidney Smith, was the creator of the influential comic strip, ""The Gumps"", based on an idea by Captain Joseph M. Patterson, editor and publisher of the ""Chicago Tribune"". He was born in Bloomington, Illinois. The son of a dentist, Smith never finished high school and began drawing cartoons for his hometown newspaper when he was 18. He also delivered chalk talks and worked in newspaper art departments in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio. In 1908, he signed on as a sports cartoonist at the ""Chicago Examiner"""
"a gently humorous reminder of something that has probably happened to his reader will suffice."" Clark received the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1961. The Neighbors (comic strip) The Neighbors was an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by George Clark which ran from 1939 to 1971. Clark launched ""The Neighbors"" in 1939 with the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate. Similar to his earlier ""Side Glances"", it explored subtle aspects of middle-class family humor. He soon added a Sunday strip, ""Our Neighbors, the Ripples"", a title eventually shortened to ""The Ripples"". The Sunday strip was dropped in"
"Tumbleweeds (comic strip) Tumbleweeds is an American comic strip that offered a skewed perspective on life in the Old West. Writer-artist Tom K. Ryan (1926 – ) (who signed the strip ""T.K. Ryan"") was very familiar with conventions of the Western genre he satirized. Launched September 1965, the strip was distributed for decades initially by the Register and Tribune Syndicate and later by the King Features Syndicate after its acquisition. Jim Davis, who created ""Garfield"", was Ryan's assistant (from 1969 to 1978) while developing another strip, ""Gnorm Gnat"". After a 42-year run, Ryan retired and brought ""Tumbleweeds"" to a conclusion"
"Teddy Tail Teddy Tail was a British newspaper comic strip about a cartoon mouse featured in ""The Daily Mail"" from 5 April 1915. It was the first ""daily"" cartoon strip in a British newspaper (being also the first to use speech balloon rather than captions), The character survived until the 1960s with several artists drawing newspaper strips and the varied annuals. Such was his popularity that other newspapers created their own cartoon characters, the Daily Express with ""Rupert Bear"" and the Daily Mirror with ""Pip, Squeak and Wilfred"". The first variant of Teddy Tail was drawn by Charles Folkard (1878–1963)"
"Drabble (comic strip) Drabble is an internationally syndicated comic strip that appears in about 200 newspapers. Kevin Fagan created the strip in 1979 and still remains the sole writer and artist. The strip centers on the Drabble family. In the mid-1990s, the strip was nearly pulled from the ""Boston Herald"". A grassroots effort, spearheaded by Robert S. Frisiello, Jr. convinced the paper to keep the strip running. Ralph: The father of the family, he worked initially as a pro-wrestler, and later as the original mall cop. Ralph has been working as a retirement village security guard and in August 2011"
"The Neighbors (comic strip) The Neighbors was an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by George Clark which ran from 1939 to 1971. Clark launched ""The Neighbors"" in 1939 with the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate. Similar to his earlier ""Side Glances"", it explored subtle aspects of middle-class family humor. He soon added a Sunday strip, ""Our Neighbors, the Ripples"", a title eventually shortened to ""The Ripples"". The Sunday strip was dropped in 1948, but his daily panel continued until 1971. Stephen Becker (""Comic Art in America"") commented, ""He has never attempted to induce the belly laugh; he feels that"
"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"
"Max Gaines Maxwell Charles Gaines (born Max Ginzberg September 21, 1894 – August 20, 1947) was a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book. In 1933, Gaines devised the first four-color, saddle-stitched newsprint pamphlet, a precursor to the color-comics format that became the standard for the American comic book industry. He was co-publisher of All-American Publications, a seminal comic-book company that introduced such enduring fictional characters as Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, and Hawkman. He went on to found Educational Comics, producing the series ""Picture Stories from the Bible"". He authored one of the earliest essays on comic"
"Johnny Gruelle Johnny Gruelle (December 24, 1880 – January 9, 1938) was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book and comics authors, illustrator, and storyteller. He is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls and as the author/illustrator of dozens of books. Gruelle also contributed cartoons and illustrations to at least ten newspapers, four major new syndicates, and more than a dozen national magazines. He was the son of Hoosier Group painter Richard Gruelle. John Barton Gruelle was born in Arcola, Illinois, on December 24, 1880, to Alice (Benton) and Richard Buckner Gruelle. In 1882,"
"the ""Andy Gump to Andy Brown"" section of her popular culture essay, ""Amos 'n' Andy—In Person,"" and her book, ""The Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, and the 1928–43 Radio Serial"". Mainly due to the research of McLeod, Sidney Smith is now regarded as a seminal figure in 20th-century popular culture. Sidney Smith (cartoonist) Robert Sidney Smith (February 13, 1877 – October 20, 1935), known as Sidney Smith, was the creator of the influential comic strip, ""The Gumps"", based on an idea by Captain Joseph M. Patterson, editor and publisher of the ""Chicago Tribune"". He was born in"
"years after the conclusion of his strip. Carl Grubert Carl Alfred Grubert, Jr. (September 11, 1911 – September 26, 1979) was an American cartoonist who drew the comic strip, ""The Berrys"" for more than three decades. A 1934 alumnus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Grubert served in the United States Navy during World War II. He worked in advertising in Chicago, Illinois prior to his cartoonist career. Grubert's ""The Berrys"" was syndicated from 1942 to 1974, and during that long run, the strip chronicled the lives of the Berry family members–father Peter, mother Pat, daughter Jill, son Jackie and baby"
"illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963. Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a"
"Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a show at the Egyptian Hall in London. His artistic"
"Geoff Campion Arthur Geoffrey Campion (19 November 1916 — 8 December 1997) was a British comics artist who drew adventure strips for Amalgamated Press/IPC. He started out as a tax inspector. As a staff officer in the East India Command in WWII he began drawing cartoons for the forces' magazine, ""Jambo"". Returning to England, he responded to an ad from the Amalgamated Press looking for artists in 1948. He was hired by editor Leonard Matthews to draw humour strips like ""Professor Bloop"" in ""Knock-Out"", and filled in on a variety of strips for AP artist Hugh McNeill, including a ""Thunderbolt"
"The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard Press in 1938. Unlike the majority of Geisel's books, it is written in prose rather than rhyming and metered verse. Geisel, who collected hats, got the idea for the story on a commuter train from New York to New England while he was sitting behind a businessman wearing a hat; the passenger was so stiff and formal that Geisel idly wondered what would happen if Geisel took his"
"Leo Baxendale Joseph Leo Baxendale (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among his best known creations are the ""Beano"" strips ""Little Plum"", ""Minnie the Minx"", ""The Bash Street Kids"", and ""The Three Bears"". Baxendale was born in Whittle-le-Woods, Lancashire, and was educated at Preston Catholic College. After serving in the RAF, he took his first job as an artist for the local ""Lancashire Evening Post"" drawing adverts and cartoons. In 1952, he began freelance work for the children's comic publishers DC Thomson, creating several highly popular new"
"1912–1913 included William James Sinnott's ""Dickey Dippy's Diary"", Leo O'Mealia's strips ""Wedlocked"" and ""Little Pal"", and the syndicate's most notable strip, Arthur R. ""Pop"" Mormand's ""Keeping Up with the Joneses"". Columns syndicated by Associated Newspapers included the columns of ""New York Globe"" publisher Jason Rogers, H. H. McClure, J. G. Lloyd, and the Rev. Dr. Frank Crane. From 1924 to c. 1926 the syndicate distributed a semi-weekly series of ""human interest"" cartoons by a rotating cast of artists, including C. D. Batchelor, Sid Greene, Frank Moser, Robert Ripley, and John Terry. Associated Newspapers syndicated ""Ripley's Believe It or Not!"" panel"
"Leone Cimpellin Leone Cimpellin (6 June 1926 – 27 March 2017) was an Italian comic artist. He was sometimes credited under the pen name Ghilbert. Born in Rovigo, Cimpellin spent his childhood in Milan and at very young age he started his career as assistant of Lina Buffolente, with whom in 1942 he created his first comic strip, ""Petto di Pollo"", published by Edizioni Alpe. After the war, Cimpellin started an autonomous career illustrating the Italo-produced comic books of ""Casey Ruggles"" (""Red Carson"" in Italy) with scripts of Mario Uggeri and then drawing Gian Luigi Bonelli's ""Plutos"". In 1953, after"
"The Boondocks (comic strip) The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. Created by McGruder in 1996 for Hitlist.com, an early online music website, it was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine ""The Source"" in 1997. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999. A popular and controversial strip, ""The Boondocks"" satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman. McGruder's"
"with his wife, Lori. Frank Bolle Frank W. Bolle (born June 23, 1924) is an American comic-strip artist, comic-book artist and illustrator, best known as the longtime artist of the newspaper strips ""Winnie Winkle"" and ""The Heart of Juliet Jones""; for stints on the comic books ""Tim Holt"" and ""Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom""; and as an illustrator for the Boy Scouts of America magazine ""Boys' Life"" for 18 years. With an unknown writer, he co-created the masked, Old West comic-book heroine the Black Phantom. Bolle sometimes used the pen name FWB and, at least once, F. L. Blake."
"La Ribambelle La Ribambelle (French for """" or """") is a Belgian comics series about a gang of kids living in the same neighbourhood. There were two versions of this strip: Joseph Loeckx (better known under the pen-name of ""Jo-El Azara"") drew a one-off story in 1958, but the longer-lasting version was that of Jean Roba (best known for ""Boule et Bill"") who created a whole new set of characters who came from various countries and ethnic backgrounds but lived in the same city. They played in a local yard and even had adventures abroad. Others who contributed to the"
"the Symphonic Band. Bill Campbell (illustrator) William W. ""Bill"" Campbell (born February 14, 1920, Bunker Hill, Massachusetts) is a former freelance illustrator and cartoonist and the creator of the """"Weird-ohs"""", """"Silly Surfers"""", and """"Frantics"""" plastic model kit series for the Hawk Model Company, which were popular in the early 1960s. Bill Campbell was born and raised at Bunker Hill, Massachusetts. Three years later his family and he moved to Chicago, Illinois. Campbell decided that he wanted to be an artist by the age of five. He always had a passion for transportation and the modern theme of it, and he"
"Jump Start (comic strip) Jump Start is a daily comic strip drawn by cartoonist Robb Armstrong. It portrays the trials and tribulations of a young African American couple as they try to balance the demands of work and raising their young children. It is syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, and is set in the Philadelphia area where Armstrong grew up. Armstrong attended Syracuse University, where in 1982 he created a popular comic strip in the student newspaper ""The Daily Orange"". That strip was called ""Hector"" and its main characters were two young men and a glasses-wearing dog. After having no"
"several books. Raeburn Van Buren Raeburn Van Buren (January 12, 1891 – December 29, 1987) was an American magazine and comic strip illustrator best known for his work on the syndicated ""Abbie an' Slats"". He was familiarly known in the professional comics community as Ray Van Buren. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, Van Buren, a distant relative of US President Martin Van Buren, grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. At the ""Kansas City Star"", he learned cartooning from comic strip artist Harry Wood. In 1913, Van Buren moved to New York, where he illustrated for ""Puck"", ""Life"" and ""The Saturday Evening"
"Gabagool! Gabagool! is an American comic book that debuted in 2002. It was created by cartoonist Mike Dawson and humorist Chris Radtke and concerns the various misadventures of a 30-something super-nerd, Christopher Vigliotti, and his friends Ritch Sutton and Vinnie DelPino. They live in the Bronx, New York, in an apartment owned by Christopher's cousin, Lenny Vigliotti. The comic started out in 2002 as a 24-page mini-comic debuting at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo in Columbus, OH, founded by Bob Corby and Dave Sim. Subsequent issues were produced at a rapid pace, and were generally timed to debut"
"1947, and joined the Gaumont British animation studio, alongside future comics artists Mike Western and Eric Bradbury. After Gaumont British's parent company, the Rank Organisation, went bust in 1949, Smith found work drawing comics for the Amalgamated Press under editor Leonard Matthews, starting on ""Knockout"" with humour strips like ""Deed-a-Day Danny"" and ""Young Joey"". His first adventure strip was an adaptation of the Burt Lancaster film ""The Flame and the Arrow"" in 1951. More adventure work, including ""Ryan of the Redcoats"" and adaptations of the western films ""Buffalo Stampede"" and ""The Last Outpost"" for ""The Comet"", followed. In 1952 he"
"appearance, especially the eyes. The strip made efforts to keep up with the times, such as housewife Lois Flagston taking a career in real estate in 1980. In previous decades the strip was acclaimed; in 1962 it earned Browne a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society. The strip faced some controversy given the changes in content restrictions since its debut in the 1950s. Once, editors insisted that belly buttons could not appear; in protest, Browne included a box of dimpled navel oranges. Now produced by the sons of the original creative team, the strip is written by Brian and"
"Wesley Morse Wesley Morse (June 17, 1897 – June 20, 1963) was an American cartoonist who is most famous for his creation of the ""Bazooka Joe"" comic strip for the bubble gum company Topps in 1953. He also created the Copa girl, which was the basis for the Copacabana logo. Born Wesley Cherry Morse in Chicago in 1897, the son of Charles and Fanny Cherry (1870–1946), Wesley Morse eventually settled in New York City. In 1918, Morse joined the Army, spending a year in France in a field artillery battery.<ref name=""Morse/Taylor""></ref> Following his experience overseas Morse returned to New York,"
"and first appeared in the ""Globe and Mail"" on 24 June 1992. The strip's central character is Tom Fisher, an advertising copywriter and follows his life and friends. Other notable main characters are Fisher's wife Alison, a former art student who currently draws her father's comic strip ""The Snugglebunnies"", Ruth, a school teacher, and Eugene, a business consultant. Tom and Alison married in June 2002, and Ruth and Eugene followed suit in August. It was not long after that Tom and Alison moved into a home of their own, and recently they've had a baby, Paul. After the move the"
"Winthrop (comic strip) Winthrop is an American syndicated newspaper comic strip that was published between 1966 and 1994, created and produced by cartoonist Dick Cavalli. The series—which derived its comedy from a group of children's nonchalantly world-wise observations—evolved from Cavalli's earlier strip, ""Morty Meekle"", which featured adult characters. Gag cartoonist Dick Cavalli—whose work appeared in magazines including ""The Saturday Evening Post"" and ""Collier's""—had achieved such popularity by 1956 that ""Writer's Digest"" observed he had ""risen to the top faster than any other cartoonist in the business."" On January 9 of that year, Cavalli launched Newspaper Enterprise Association's syndicated comic strip"
"series in the mid-1990s. The ""Bugs Bunny"" comic strip ran for more than 50 years, from 1942 to 1993, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. It started out as a Sunday page and in 1948 became a daily strip. The strip originated with Chase Craig, who did the first five weeks before leaving for military service in World War II. Roger Armstrong illustrated the strip from 1942 to 1944. The creators most associated with the strip are writers Albert Stoffel (1947–1979) & Carl Fallberg (1950–1969), and artist Ralph Heimdahl, who worked on it from 1947 to 1979. Other creators associated"