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| x Motley's Crew |
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Marriage | Tom Forman |
Motley's Crew was an American comic strip by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman with satirical social commentary. With readership spread among 250 newspapers in the United States alone, the comic strip acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group...
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| x Peanuts |
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Humour | Charles M. Schulz |
Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one...
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| x Bloom County |
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Politics | Berkeley Breathed |
Bloom County was an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often...
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| x The Far Side |
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Satire | Gary Larson |
The Far Side is a popular one-panel syndicated comic created by Gary Larson. Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre...
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| x Urban Trash |
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Urban Trash is a satirical South African comic strip created by Jeremy Nell, originating on 14 March 2005. It focuses on the exploits of urban street life in and around South Africa, and features a regular cast of characters, and is regularly...
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| x Opus |
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Politics | Berkeley Breathed |
Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed for a period of circa five years from 2003 to 2008. It was Breathed's fourth comic strip, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland.
Set in Bloom County, the strip documented the...
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| x Sherman's Lagoon |
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Humour | Jim Toomey |
Sherman's Lagoon is a comic strip by Jim Toomey that is syndicated daily in over 150 newspapers worldwide. It first appeared in the Escondido Times-Advocate on May 13, 1991.
The strip takes place at the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of...
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| x Tom the Dancing Bug |
![The opening panel to one of Ruben Bolling’s comic strips that features Lucky Ducky[1]](http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb/wikipedia/images/en_id/2233840?pad=1&maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64)
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Politics | Ruben Bolling |
Tom the Dancing Bug is a weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling which presents critical commentary on modern life, current events, and conventional wisdom and clichés. (There are no bugs or dancing involved and there are no characters named Tom.) The...
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| x This Modern World |
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Politics | Tom Tomorrow |
This Modern World is a weekly satirical comic strip by cartoonist and political commentator Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins) that covers current events from a liberal point of view. Tomorrow also runs a weblog that informs readers about stories of...
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| x Stone Soup | Politics | Jan Eliot |
Stone Soup, named for the stone soup fable, is an internationally syndicated American comic strip written and illustrated by Jan Eliot. The comic strip, set in Eugene, Oregon, began as a weekly in 1990. The syndicated daily strip debuted in November...
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| x Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer |
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Humour | Ben Katchor |
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer is a weekly comic strip written and drawn by Ben Katchor since 1988. It is published in The Forward and various alternative weekly newspapers.
Katchor embodied his love of the fading small-business community of...
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| x Viivi & Wagner | Humour | Jussi Tuomola |
Viivi & Wagner is a somewhat absurdist Finnish newspaper comic strip drawn by Jussi "Juba" Tuomola.
The titular main characters are Viivi, a Finnish woman in her twenties, and Wagner, a mature male pig. Wagner is fully anthropomorphic and sentient,...
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| x Little Jimmy |
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Humour | James Swinnerton |
Little Jimmy, originally titled Jimmy, was a newspaper comic strip created by Jimmy Swinnerton. With a publication history from February 14, 1904 to 1958, it was one of the first continuing features and one of the longest running.
The title...
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| x Mutts |
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Humour | Patrick McDonnell |
Mutts is a daily comic strip created by Patrick McDonnell in 1994 based on the day-to-day adventures of two house pets: a dog named Earl and a cat named Mooch. Earl and Mooch interact with each other, their human owners, and a large cast of...
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| x Brevity |
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Brevity is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. Brevity originally began on Comics Sherpa (a site which helps beginning comic strips make their work public over the web). It debuted in 55 newspapers on...
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| x Calvin and Hobbes |
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Humour | Bill Watterson |
Calvin and Hobbes was a syndicated comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair are named after John...
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| x For Better or For Worse |
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Drama | Lynn Johnston |
For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that began in September 1979, and ended the main story on August 30, 2008, with a postscript epilogue the following day. Starting on September 1, 2008, the strip began re-telling its original...
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| x Baby Blues |
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Humour | Rick Kirkman |
Baby Blues is an American comic strip series produced by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott since January 7, 1990. Syndicated by King Features Syndicate since 1995, the strip centralizes on the MacPherson family. Initially, this family was composed of...
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| x Doonesbury |
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Politics | Garry Trudeau |
Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, now a...
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| x Cathy |
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Women | Cathy Guisewite |
Cathy is a comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. Featuring a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life — food, love, mom, and work — the strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. Cathy's characteristics...
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| x Mallard Fillmore |
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Politics | Bruce Tinsley |
Mallard Fillmore is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley. The strip follows the exploits of its title character, an anthropomorphic green-feathered duck who works as a politically conservative reporter at fictional television...
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| x Zits |
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Humour | Jim Borgman |
Zits is a comic strip written by Jerry Scott and illustrated by Jim Borgman about the life of Jeremy Duncan, a now 16 year old junior, previously a 15 year old for the life of the comic. The comic debuted in July 1997 in over 200 newspapers and has...
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| x U.S. Acres |
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Humour | Jim Davis |
U.S. Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States) is a comic strip that ran from 1986 to 1989 created by Jim Davis, author of the popular comic strip Garfield. The comic was launched on March 3, 1986 in a then-unprecedented 505 newspapers...
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| x Hägar the Horrible |
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Humour | Dik Browne |
Hägar the Horrible is the title and the name of the protagonist of a print syndication currently syndicated by King features Syndicate comic strip created by the late Dik Browne and currently drawn by son Chris Browne. It first appeared in February...
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| x Agnes |
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Humour | Tony Cochran |
Agnes is an American syndicated comic strip written and drawn by Tony Cochran. It was first syndicated in 1999.
Agnes chronicles the adventures of an elementary school-aged girl living in an Ohio trailer park called "The People's Court" with her...
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| x Beetle Bailey |
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Humour | Mort Walker |
Beetle Bailey (begun on September 4, 1950) is an American comic strip set in a United States Army military post, created by Mort Walker. It is among the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator.
Most of the humor revolves...
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| x Outland |
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Politics | Berkeley Breathed |
Outland was a Sunday-only comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995. It was a spin-off of Breathed's strip Bloom County, featuring many of the same characters.
On September 3, 1989, a month after retiring Bloom...
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| x Arnold |
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Humour | Kevin McCormick |
Arnold was a syndicated comic strip by Kevin McCormick that ran at its height in 56 newspapers, including the LA Times and the Detroit Free Press, from 1982 through 1988. The strip was characterized by an off-beat sense of humor and random...
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| x Dilbert |
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Humour | Scott Adams | Illustrator and Writer |
Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character....
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| x Candorville | Politics | Darrin Bell |
Candorville is a syndicated newspaper comic strip written and illustrated by Darrin Bell, a former editorial cartoonist, and the first African-American cartoonist to have two different comic strips in syndication concurrently. Candorville was...
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| x Prickly City |
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Politics | Scott Stantis |
Prickly City is a daily comic strip drawn by Scott Stantis, the editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham News, and distributed through Universal Press Syndicate. The cartoon follows the adventures of Carmen, a young Hispanic girl in pigtails, and a...
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| x Dog eat Doug |
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Humour | Brian Anderson |
Dog eat Doug (often abbreviated DeD) is a comic strip written and illustrated by Brian Anderson. It began in 2004 as a webcomic that ran on the cartoonist's homepage and Comics Sherpa, and was later picked up for newspaper syndication through...
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| x The Boondocks |
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Satire | Aaron McGruder | Illustrator and Writer |
The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder. Created by McGruder in 1996 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park, the strip moved from the college...
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| x Dick Tracy |
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Action | Chester Gould |
Dick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful...
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| x FoxTrot |
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Family | Bill Amend |
FoxTrot is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Amend. As of December 2006, FoxTrot is carried by over 1,000 newspapers worldwide. From its inception in 1988 it was published daily until December 31, 2006, when Amend switched to a...
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| x Between Friends |
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Politics | Sandra Bell-Lundy |
Between Friends is an internationally syndicated comic strip written by Canadian Sandra Bell-Lundy. The comic focuses on three middle-aged professional women and the problems that they face in their lives. Initially Maeve, Susan, and Kimberly were...
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| x Li'l Abner |
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Politics | Al Capp |
Li'l Abner was a satirical American comic strip appearing in many newspapers in the United States and Canada, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909-1979), the...
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| x Frumpy the Clown | Humour | Judd Winick |
Frumpy the Clown is a comic-strip written and illustrated by Judd Winick and appeared from 1996 to 1998.
Despite the fact that it only ran for two years and appeared only in 30 newspapers (the largest being the Chicago Sun-Times), it had a fair...
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| x Mister Boffo | Humour |
Mister Boffo is an American comic strip created by Joe Martin. The strip has been in syndication since 1986, originally distributed by Tribune Media Services and now distributed by Martin's own Neatly Chiseled Features.
The main character of ...
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| x Pearls Before Swine |
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Humour | Stephan Pastis |
Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, California. It is Pastis' fifth attempt to syndicate a comic strip, the first four including Rat, The Infirm, and Bradbury...
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| x Pogo |
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Satire | Walt Kelly |
Pogo was the title and central character of a long-running (1948-1975) daily comic strip created by Walt Kelly. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp of the southeastern United States, the strip often engaged in social and political satire through the...
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| x Broom-Hilda |
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Humour | Russell Myers |
Broom-Hilda is an American newspaper comic strip created by Russell Myers. It is distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and first ran in 1970. Myers won the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1975 for his work on the strip...
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| x One Big Happy |
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Humour | Rick Detorie |
One Big Happy is a daily comic strip written and illustrated by Rick Detorie, detailing the daily adventures of a six-year-old girl named Ruthie. The strip also features her eight-year-old brother Joe, their parents Frank and Ellen, and their...
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| x Lucky Cow | Satire |
Lucky Cow is a syndicated comic strip created by Mark Pett and distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. It focuses around the fictional fast food chain Lucky Cow and its workers. In the strip, the restaurant's advertisements advocate obesity and...
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| x Frank and Ernest | Satire | Bob Thaves |
Frank and Ernest may refer to:
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| x Maakies |
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Humour | Tony Millionaire |
Maakies is a syndicated weekly comic strip by Tony Millionaire. It began publication in February 1994 in the New York Press. It currently runs in many American alternative newsweeklies including The Stranger, LA Weekly and Only. It also appears in...
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| x Franklin Fibbs |
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Humour | Hollis Brown |
Franklin Fibbs is the main character of and the name of a comic strip written by Hollis Brown and illustrated by Wes Hargis. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it began September 6, 2004 and ran for two years.
The cartoon revolves around...
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| x The Piranha Club |
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Humour | Bud Grace |
Piranha Club is the title of a comic strip written and illustrated by Bud Grace. It was originally called Ernie, but the title was changed to the current one in 1998. The strip made its debut in February 1988. In 1989 the Swedish Academy of Comic...
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| x Get Fuzzy |
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Humour | Darby Conley |
Get Fuzzy is an American daily comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. The strip features the adventures of Boston advertising executive Rob Wilco and his two anthropomorphic pets: dog Satchel Pooch and cat Bucky Katt. Get Fuzzy has been...
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| x Blondie |
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Humour | Chic Young |
Blondie is an American comic strip created by Murat Bernard "Chic" Young and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. The success of the comic strip led to a long-run Blondie film series ...
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| x Garfield |
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Humour | Jim Davis |
Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield (named after Davis' grandfather); his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie. As of 2007, it was...
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| x The Phantom |
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The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many forms of media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating...
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| x Penny Arcade |
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Computer and video game industry | Mike Krahulik | Illustrator |
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and gaming culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site,...
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| x Fokke & Sukke |
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Fokke & Sukke is a Dutch comic strip created by writer and illustrator Jean-Marc van Tol, and writers John Reid and Bastiaan Geleijnse. The strip appears in the daily broadsheet NRC Handelsblad.
Fokke & Sukke first appeared in 1994, in the student...
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| x F Minus |
F Minus is a horizontally oriented single panel comic strip by Tony Carrillo, started when he was a sophomore at Arizona State University. It ran daily in The State Press, an independent newspaper at ASU, from 2002 until 2004, when Carrillo...
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| x Betty Boop |
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Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by animator Grim Natwick, appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. With her overt sexual appeal, Betty was a hit...
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| x Red Ryder |
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Red Ryder a popular American fictional cowboy from the 1940s, was created by Stephen Slesinger and artist Fred Harman. Beginning Sunday, November 6, 1938, Red Ryder was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, expanding over the following...
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| x Cole Black |
Cole Black is an underground comic book hard-boiled detective created by Rocky Hartberg in 1976. The detective first appeared in the self-published full-sheet newspaper-sized Cole Black Comix #1 (1976) which had a print run of only 200 copies all...
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| x The Fosdyke Saga |
The Fosdyke Saga was a British comic strip by cartoonist Bill Tidy, published in the Daily Mirror newspaper from March 1971 - February 1985. Described as "a classic tale of struggle, power, personalities and tripe", the strip was a parody of John...
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