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The World of Comics

The World of Comics. http://snoopyworldx.blogspot.com/2013/06/snoopy-character.html. Media Center’s Brown Bag Lunch April 5, 2014. Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World . Published first comic series. 1895: “ Hogan’s Alley,” by Richard Outcault featured “The Yellow Kid”.

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The World of Comics

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  1. The World of Comics http://snoopyworldx.blogspot.com/2013/06/snoopy-character.html Media Center’s Brown Bag Lunch April 5, 2014

  2. Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World Published first comic series. 1895: “Hogan’s Alley,” by Richard Outcault featured “The Yellow Kid”

  3. Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal Dec. 12, 1897: The KatzenjammerKidsby Rudolph Dirks Still running today. The oldest strip in syndication

  4. All three primary components of modern comic strips were in place: • character continuity, • 2) sequential panels or pictures, and • 3) speech within the picture usually enclosed in a balloon.

  5. Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal Oct 15, 1905: “ Little Nemo in Slumberland,” by Winsor McCay

  6. Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal Nov. 15, 1907: “ Mutt and Jeff,” by Budd Fisher

  7. Randolph Hearst 1917: “ Krazy Kat” by George Herriman.

  8. 1924 Harold Gray begins Little Orphan Annie, 1930 Chic Young begins Blondie. • 1937 Detective Comics is released by the company that will eventually will be named DC Comics. • Bat-man and The Flash (1939) • The Green Lantern (1940) • Wonder Woman (1941) • Supergirl (1959) • The Sandman (1989) 1938 Action Comics makes its first appearance, and features the first superhero ever: Superman.

  9. Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner and several other heroes are released by Timely Comics which will be renamed Marvel Comics. • Captain America (1941) • The Fantastic Four (1961) -Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Girl, The Thing, and The Human Torch • The Hulk and Spider Man (1962) • X-Men (1963) • 1941 Archie Andrews debuts in Pep Comics . Pep eventually becomes MLJ Comics and then Archie Comics. • Sabrina the Teenage Witch is introduced (1962) • Josie McCoy is introduced (1963) • Josie and the Pussycats (1969)

  10. 1945 Casper, the Friendly Ghost is introduced. 1950 Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, the most profitable comic strip of all time, begins its 50-year run. 1954 Comics Code Authority is created in response to Public and Congressional objections to comics that feature stories of crime and horror.

  11. 1970 Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. The first comic strip to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, in 1975. (Real Time) 1978 Garfield begins his long nap in the nation's newspapers. 1979 The For Better or For Worse. Nominated for a Pulitzer, a rare distinction for any comic strip, but especially for a non-political one. (Real Time)

  12. 1980 Gary Larson’s The Far Side. First appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on New Year's Day. 1985 Calvin and Hobbes, the adventures of an imaginative boy and his stuffed tiger. Author Bill Watterson becomes known for his refusal to merchandise the wildly popular characters, in any way. 1986 The very first version of Maus, Art Spiegelman's story based on his father's Holocaust experiences. His combined work wins a special Pulitzer Prize.

  13. Webcomics Incidental Comics Unshelved Buttersafe The Creatures Inside My Head “I had a pretty good time . . . “

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