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Shoe is an American comic strip about a motley crew of newspapermen, all of whom are birds. It was written and drawn by its creator, cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, from September 13, 1977, [2] until his death in 2000. MacNelly's last strip was dated July 9, 2000; [3] it has since been continued by Chris Cassatt, Gary Brookins, Ben Lansing, and Susie ...
Jeff MacNelly. Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly (September 17, 1947 – June 8, 2000) was an American editorial cartoonist [1] and the creator of the comic strip Shoe. After Shoe had been established in papers, MacNelly created the single-panel strip Pluggers. The Wall Street Journal wrote: "MacNelly's superb draftsmanship as well as his heightened ...
Mary Jane, Tige. Buster and Tige, cropped from a 1906 political cartoon ("Hoist" refers to William Randolph Hearst in rustic New York accent .) Buster Brown is a comic-strip character created in 1902 by Richard F. Outcault. Adopted as the mascot of the Brown Shoe Company in 1904, Buster Brown, along with Mary Jane, and with his dog Tige, became ...
Pogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.
Fearless Fosdick. Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick is featured in a Li'l Abner Sunday sequence from April 3, 1960. Fearless Fosdick is a long-running parody of Chester Gould 's Dick Tracy. It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp 's satirical hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–1977).
Genre (s) Humor, drama. Funky Winkerbean was an American comic strip by Tom Batiuk. Distributed by North America Syndicate, a division of King Features Syndicate, it appeared in more than 400 newspapers worldwide. While Batiuk was a 23-year-old middle school art teacher in Elyria, Ohio, he began drawing cartoons while supervising study hall.
Humor, Gag-a-day. Pluggers is a comic panel created by Jeff MacNelly (creator of Shoe) in 1993 that relies on reader submissions (referred to as "Pluggerisms") for the premise of each day's panel. In the context of this strip, "pluggers" are defined as rural, blue-collar workers who live a typical working-class American lifestyle, accompanied ...
Steve Canyon is an American action-adventure comic strip by cartoonist Milton Caniff. Launched shortly after Caniff retired from his previous strip, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ran from January 13, 1947, until June 4, 1988. It ended shortly after Caniff's death. [ 2] Caniff won the Reuben Award for the strip in 1971.