''Inside Woody Allen'' is an American
gag-a-day
A gag-a-day comic strip
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celebrity comics
Celebrity comics are comics based on the fame and popularity of a celebrity.De Weyer, Geert, "België gestript",Standaard Uitgeverij, 2014. They are a byproduct of merchandising around a certain media star or franchise and have existed since the ma ...
comic strip
A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics terminology#Captio ...
about the comedian and filmmaker
Woody Allen
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen, accolade ...
. Drawn by
Stuart Hample, the strip ran from October 4, 1976, to April 8, 1984.
The strip's first year was credited to a pseudonym, Joe Marthen. Hample's name appeared on the strip starting September 19, 1977.
Characters and story
The strip was based on Allen's comedic persona and focused on his neuroses, angst, sexual frustration and frequent psychiatric treatment.
Writers for the strip included
David Weinberger
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Collected editions
A collection of some strips was published in 1978 as '' Non-Being and Somethingness: Selections from the Comic Strip Inside Woody Allen'' () and features an introduction by Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more t ...
. Another volume, ''Dread and Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip'' was published in 2009 ().
In ''Annie Hall''
Allen's 1977 film ''Annie Hall
''Annie Hall'' is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer ...
'' contains an animated sequence based on Hample's artwork, though the actual animation was done by Chris Ishii.
See also
*List of newspaper comic strips
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References
American comic strips
Cultural depictions of Woody Allen
Gag-a-day comics
Satirical comics
Slice of life comics
1976 comics debuts
1984 comics endings
Comics based on films
Comic strips based on real people
Comics set in New York City
Psychotherapy in fiction
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