''Laugh Parade'' was a group of weekly gag cartoons written by Bunny Hoest and drawn by John Reiner. It ran in ''

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'', a Sunday newspaper magazine supplement.

Overview

''Laugh Parade'' displayed three or four single-panel cartoons, one of which was '' Howard Huge''. Reiner used an ink wash to give the strip a greyish,

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tone. Hoest and Reiner collaborate on another cartoon series called ''

The Lockhorns ''The Lockhorns'' is a United States single-panel cartoon created September 9, 1968 by Bill Hoest and originally distributed by King Features Syndicate to 500 newspapers in 23 countries. The Lockhorns joined Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) Janu ...

'', which is distributed by

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. ''The Lockhorns'' was created in 1968 by

Bill Hoest William Pierce Hoest (February 7, 1926 – November 7, 1988) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip '' The Lockhorns'', distributed by King Features Syndicate to 500 newspapers in 23 countries, and '' Laugh Parad ...

, who followed with the creation of ''Laugh Parade'' in 1980 and ''Howard Huge'' in 1981. In 1986, the publishers of ''Parade'', Advance Magazine Publishers, Inc., filed for a trademark of ''Laugh Parade'', and they renewed that trademark in 2007.Trademarkia
/ref> The Hoest and Reiner feature had no association with the humor magazine ''Laugh Parade'', published during the 1960s and 1970s by

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. That publication featured cartoons by

Don Orehek Don Orehek (August 9, 1928 – December 6, 2022) was an American freelance cartoonist who contributed gag cartoons to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines and books. On more obscure publications, he used several pseudonyms, including Sam de Sad ...

and others.

Awards

Reiner won the

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's Gag Cartoons Award in 1994.

References

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