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Topper (comic Strip)
550px, Billy DeBeck's ''Barney Google'' (October 7, 1934), a page featuring two toppers: ''Bunky'' and the single-panel ''Knee-Hi-Knoodles''. A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allowing them to add smaller strips and single-panel cartoons to their page. Toppers usually were drawn by the same artist as the larger strip. These strips usually were positioned at the top of the page (hence their name), but they sometimes ran beneath the main strip. History Toppers were introduced by King Features Syndicate during the 1920s, enabling newspaper editors to claim more comic strips without adding more pages. The practice allowed newspapers to drop the topper and place another strip or an additional advertisement into the Sunday comics section. They also made it possible to reformat a strip from full-page size to tabloid si ...
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Wash Tubbs
''Wash Tubbs'' is an American daily comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1949, when it merged into Crane's related Sunday page, ''Captain Easy''. Crane left both strips in 1943 to begin ''Buz Sawyer'', but a series of assistants, beginning with Leslie Turner, kept the combined ''Captain Easy'' daily and Sunday strips going until October 1, 1988. History Initially titled ''Washington Tubbs II'', it originally was a gag-a-day daily strip which focused on the mundane misadventures of the title character, a bespectacled bumbler who ran a store. However, Crane soon switched from gag-a-day to continuity storylines. He reinvented the strip after its 12th week to make it the first true action/adventure comic strip, initially by having Tubbs leave the store and join a circus. To research this, Crane spent many days with a circus, even incorporating characters in the strip based directly on the circus performers he knew personally.Blackbeard, Bill. ''Wash Tubbs ...
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Editor & Publisher
''Editor & Publisher'' (''E&P'') is an American monthly trade news magazine covering the news media industry. Published since 1901, ''Editor & Publisher'' is the self-described "bible of the newspaper industry," with offices in Hendersonville, TN. Overview ''Editor & Publisher (E&P)'' covers all aspects of the news media industry. The magazine's original tagline was "The newsmagazine of the fourth estate." As of 2022, E&P's tagline is "The Authoritative Voice of #NewsMedia Since 1884". Today E&P still publishes a monthly print magazine that is mailed to over 5,000 news publishing executives and distributed at yearly news media events. E&P presents the annual EPpy Awards for excellence in digital publishing. History ''Editor & Publisher'' evolved from several publications, the oldest of which — the weekly '' The Journalist'', the first successful American trade newspaper covering journalism
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Mutt And Jeff
''Mutt and Jeff'' is a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about "two mismatched wikt:tinhorn, tinhorns". It is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip. The concept of a newspaper strip featuring recurring characters in multiple panels on a six-day-a-week schedule had previously been pioneered through the short-lived ''A. Piker Clerk'' by Clare Briggs, but it was ''Mutt and Jeff'' as the first successful daily comic strip that staked out the direction of the future trend. ''Mutt and Jeff'' remained in syndication until 1983, employing the talents of several cartoonists, chiefly Al Smith (cartoonist), Al Smith who drew the strip for nearly fifty years. The series eventually became a comic book, initially published by All-American Publications and later published by DC Comics, Dell Comics and Harvey Comics. Later it was also published as cartoons, films, pop culture merchandise and reprints. Syndicated ...
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Allan Holtz
Allan Holtz () is an American comic strip historian who researches and writes about newspaper comics for his Stripper's Guide blog, launched in 2005. His research encompasses some 7,000 American comic strips and newspaper panels. In addition to his contributions to '' Hogan's Alley'' and other publications about vintage comic strips, he is the author of ''American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide'' (2012). He is a resident of Tavares, Florida. Work Holtz's blog Stripper's Guide posts such regular series as "News of Yore" (including news items from back issues of ''Editor & Publisher''), "Obscurity of the Day" (little-known strips) and a series on George Herriman. One such obscurity discussed by Holtz is ''The Captain's Gig'', a little-known strip by Virgil Partch; it ran as a daily and Sunday from 1977 to 1979. Other obscurities rediscovered by Holtz go back to the earliest published comic strips. He also surveys the history of comic strip syndicates, along with ...
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Pete The Tramp
''Pete the Tramp'' is an American comic strip by Clarence D. Russell (1895–1963) which was distributed by King Features Syndicate for more than three decades, from January 10, 1932 to December 22, 1963. Howard Eugene Wilson, in the ''Harvard Educational Review'', described the strip's title character as "a hobo with a gentleman's instincts." Russell studied at the Chicago Art Institute and then began working as a freelance artist. During World War I, he went overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces. When he returned to America in 1920, he worked for several New York newspapers, while also contributing to ''Judge (magazine), Judge''. Characters and story Russell's work for ''Judge'' included cartoons of a homeless man who was given the name Pete the Tramp when he was syndicated to newspapers beginning January 10, 1932. Comic strip historian Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Don Markstein offered this description of Pete the Tramp: During its long run, ''Pete the Tramp'' had ...
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James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale (born James Badgett Dale, May 1, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Chase Edmunds in '' 24'', Robert Leckie in '' The Pacific'', Trooper Barrigan in ''The Departed'', Luke Lewenden in '' The Grey'', Eric Savin in ''Iron Man 3'', and Tyrone S. "Rone" Woods in '' 13 Hours''. Early life James Badgett Dale was born in New York City's Manhattan borough on May 1, 1978, the only child of actress and singer Anita Morris (1943–1994) and actor and dancer Grover Dale (born 1935). He was educated at Wonderland Avenue Elementary School in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles. At the age of 10, he was picked out of his fifth grade class to audition for the role of Simon in the 1990 film ''Lord of the Flies''. After gaining the role and spending five months filming on location in Jamaica, he returned to his schooling at Wonderland. Career Dale's most notable roles to date are Simon in the 1990 film ''Lord of the Flies'' and Chase Ed ...
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Robert Leckie (author)
Robert Hugh Leckie (December 18, 1920 – December 24, 2001) was a United States Marine and an author of books about the military history of the United States, Catholic history and culture, sports books, fiction books, autobiographies, and children's books. As a young man, he served with the 1st Marine Division during World War II; his service as a machine gunner and a scout during the war greatly influenced his work. Leckie's war memoir, '' Helmet for My Pillow'', along with Eugene B. Sledge's book '' With the Old Breed'', formed the basis for the HBO series '' The Pacific'' (2010), the follow-up series to '' Band of Brothers''. In the miniseries, Leckie is portrayed by James Badge Dale. Early life and education Leckie was born on December 18, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an Irish Catholic family of eight children. He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey, and attended St. Mary High School. Early career and military service He began his career as a writer in high ...
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The Pacific (miniseries)
''The Pacific'' is a 2010 American Drama (film and television)#War drama, war drama miniseries produced by HBO, Playtone, and DreamWorks Television, DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010. The series is a Spiritual successor, companion piece to the 2001 miniseries ''Band of Brothers (miniseries), Band of Brothers'' and focuses on the United States Marine Corps's actions in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War. Whereas ''Band of Brothers'' followed the men of E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States), Easy Company of the 506th Infantry Regiment (United States), 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment through the European Theater of Operations, United States Army, European Theater, ''The Pacific'' centers on the experiences of three Marines (Robert Leckie (author), Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge, and John Basilone) who were in different regiments (1st Marine Regiment (United States), 1st, 5th Marine Regim ...
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Bringing Up Father
''Bringing Up Father'' is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it ran for 87 years, from January 2, 1913, to May 28, 2000. The strip was later titled ''Jiggs and Maggie'' (or ''Maggie and Jiggs''), after its two main characters. According to McManus, he introduced these same characters in other strips as early as November 1911. Characters and story The strip centers on an immigrant Irishman named Jiggs, a former hod carrier who came into wealth in the United States by winning a million dollars in a sweepstakes. Now nouveau-riche, he still longs to revert to his former working class habits and lifestyle. His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat New England boiled dinner, corned beef and cabbage (known regionally as "Jiggs dinner"), and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by Maggie, his formidable, social-climbing (and rolling-pin wielding) wikt:harridan ...
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Room And Board (comic Strip)
''Room and Board'' is the title of two American comic strips. The first, created by Sals Bostwick, debuted on May 21, 1928. He drew it until his death in 1930, after which it was continued by cartoonists Brandon Walsh, Benbee, Darrell McClure, Dow Walling and Herman Thomas before coming to an end in 1932. In 1936, cartoonist Gene Ahern created the second strip, a continuation of a previous strip, '' Our Boarding House'', which he drew from 1921 to 1936 for another syndicate. This second ''Room and Board'' was discontinued on November 29, 1958. Ahern's ''Room and Board'' had no connection with Bostwick's strip other than the similar title.''Room and Board''
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