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Aggie Mack
''Aggie Mack'' was a newspaper comic strip about a teenage girl. Created by Hal Rasmusson, it was distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate beginning on September 2, 1946, and concluding on January 9, 1972. It had a 26-year run, with a title change to ''Aggie'' during the final six years. Publication history When Rasmusson was in ill health, the series was taken over by Roy L. Fox, starting with the strip dated January 8, 1962; Rasmusson died later that year. In 1966, the title was shortened to ''Aggie''. The final episode of the strip was published on January 9, 1972.Hal Rasmusson
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Hal Rasmusson
Hal Rasmusson (January 11, 1900 – 1962) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip ''Aggie Mack'', about a teenage girl. Born in Crookston, Minnesota, Rasmusson grew up in Minneapolis, where he attended the Minneapolis School of Art for two years. He started his career doing fashion illustration. Moving to Chicago, he freelanced for several years, eventually taking a job creating greeting cards for Gibson Cards in Cincinnati for five years. He received the credit line "by Hal Rasmusson" on the back of his Gibson Cards. After Rasmusson married, he moved to New York where he worked as an art director for five years. Returning to Minneapolis, he spent nine years as art director of greeting cards with the Buzza Company. Comic strips He launched ''Aggie Mack'' with the Chicago Tribune Syndicate in 1946. Comics historian Eric Agena described Rasmusson's characters: :''Aggie Mack'' was created by Hal Rasmusson in 1946, and appeared in the ''Chicago Tribune'' until th ...
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Penny (comic Strip)
''Penny'' was a comic strip about a teenage girl by Harry Haenigsen which maintained its popularity for almost three decades. It was distributed by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate from June 27, 1943, to October 25, 1970. Publication history ''Penny'' began because Helen Rogers Reid, the wife of the ''New York Herald Tribune'' publisher Ogden Mills Reid, wanted to see a girl as the central character of a new comic strip. Haenigsen had been doing a strip about a teenage boy, ''Our Bill'' (1939–1963), when he launched ''Penny'' as a Sunday strip on June 27, 1943. A daily strip debuted September 3, 1945. The prolific cartoonist Bill Hoest was Haenigsen's assistant on ''Penny''. After an injury from a 1965 traffic accident kept Haenigsen away from the drawing board, Hoest took over most of the work, although Haenigsen still supervised and signed each ''Penny'' strip. In 1968, Hoest left to start his own strip, ''The Lockhorns'', for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndic ...
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Female Characters In Comics
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Comics Characters Introduced In 1946
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Teenage Characters In Comics
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American Comic Strips
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1972 Comics Endings
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1946 Comics Debuts
1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade. Events January * January 6 – The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies of World War II recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 – Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic ...
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Zits (comics)
''Zits'' is a comic strip written by cartoonist Jerry Scott and illustrated by Jim Borgman about the life of Jeremy Duncan, a 17-year-old high school junior (he was 15 when the comic started). The comic debuted in July 7, 1997 in over 200 newspapers, and by 1998 it was included in "more than 1,700 newspapers worldwide in 45 countries and is translated into 15 different languages." ''Zits'' has received multiple awards and continues to be syndicated by King Features. Set in central Ohio suburbia, the strip centers on Jeremy as he tries to balance his family life, social life, the academic demands of high school and his plans for the future, often with a heavy dose of surrealism, making it stand out from being just a typical teenager cartoon strip. Origin In 1996, Jerry Scott was drawing ''Baby Blues'', a comic strip about raising children he co-wrote with Rick Kirkman. He realized, however, that his profession as an independent cartoonist was limited to whatever joke he coul ...
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Teena (comic Strip)
''Teena'' is a comic strip about a teenage girl, created by Hilda Terry. It ran from July 1, 1944, to 1963, distributed by King Features Syndicate. The strip evolved from Terry's earlier Sunday strip, Sunday feature, ''It's a Girl's Life'', a collection of gag cartoons which first appeared in newspapers on Sunday, December 14, 1941. The format displayed six panels about the reactions of teenage girls to World War II. In Denmark, the strip was known as ''Tina''. Significance Comics historian Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Don Markstein noted: :They also could be marketed as a daily feature, but wartime paper shortages prevented that. The main characters were named Henny and Penny... In 1943, Harry Haenigsen launched his own girl-protagonist strip, titled ''Penny (comic strip), Penny''. In response, Terry dropped hers and started a more traditionally-formatted Sunday comics, Sunday comic about a similar character with a different name. "Tina" was a good candidate for the new one's n ...
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