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1980s, and the "funny pages" were often arranged in a way they appeared at the front of Sunday editions. In 1931, George Gallup's first poll had the comic section as the most important part of the newspaper, with additional surveys pointing out that the comic strips were the second most popular feature after the picture page. During the 1930s, many comic sections had between 12 and 16 pages, although in some cases, these had up to 24 pages.

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many strips were collected together. During the 1930s, the original art for a daily strip could be drawn as large as 25 inches wide by six inches high. Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip. As strips have become smaller, the number of panels have been reduced.

2332:(which has caused higher printing costs) beginning during the fifties and sixties led to Sunday strips being published on smaller and more diverse formats. As newspapers have reduced the page count of Sunday comic sections since the late 1990s (by the 2010s, most sections have only four pages, with the back page not always being destined for comics) has also led to further downsizes. 2070:. At a time when comic books were coming under fire for supposed sexual, violent, and subversive content, Kelly feared the same would happen to comic strips. Going before the Congressional subcommittee, he proceeded to charm the members with his drawings and the force of his personality. The comic strip was safe for satire. 1024:. Numerous events in newspaper comic strips have reverberated throughout society at large, though few of these events occurred in recent years, owing mainly to the declining use of continuous storylines on newspaper comic strips, which since the 1970s had been waning as an entertainment form. From 1903 to 1905 1196:

While in the early 20th century comic strips were a frequent target for detractors of "yellow journalism", by the 1920s the medium became wildly popular. While radio, and later, television surpassed newspapers as a means of entertainment, most comic strip characters were widely recognizable until the

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relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long "storylines" (with six consecutive (mostly unrelated) strips following a same subject), with longer storylines being used

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The two conventional formats for newspaper comics are strips and single gag panels. The strips are usually displayed horizontally, wider than they are tall. Single panels are square, circular or taller than they are wide. Strips usually, but not always, are broken up into several smaller panels with

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daily comic strip ended in 1994 after newspapers objected to a storyline they considered to be a satire on abortion). Some of the taboo words and topics are mentioned daily on television and other forms of visual media. Webcomics and comics distributed primarily to college newspapers are much freer

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strip that features Pig talking to his sister, and says the phrase "I SIS!" repeatedly after correcting his sister's grammar. The strip then cuts to a scene of a NSA wiretap agent, following a scene of Pig being arrested by the FBI saying "Never correct your sister's grammar", implying that the CIA

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As comics are easier for children to access compared to other types of media, they have a significantly more rigid censorship code than other media. Stephan Pastis has lamented that the "unwritten" censorship code is still "stuck somewhere in the 1950s". Generally, comics are not allowed to include

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Today's strip artists, with the help of the NCS, enthusiastically promote the medium, which since the 1970s (and particularly the 1990s) has been considered to be in decline due to numerous factors such as changing tastes in humor and entertainment, the waning relevance of newspapers in general and

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Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high. Initially, a newspaper page included only a single daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page. By the 1920s, many newspapers had a comics page on which

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fame, requested that his strip not be continued by another cartoonist after his death. He also rejected the idea of hiring an inker or letterer, comparing it to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts. Schulz's family has honored his wishes and refused numerous proposals by syndicators to continue

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Daily strips have suffered as well. Before the mid-1910s, there was not a "standard" size", with strips running the entire width of a page or having more than one tier. By the 1920s, strips often covered six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper. During the 1940s, strips

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has written extensively on the issue, arguing that size reduction and dropped panels reduce both the potential and freedom of a cartoonist. After a lengthy battle with his syndicate, Watterson won the privilege of making half page-sized Sunday strips where he could arrange the panels any way he

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While the 1997 Switcheroonie was a one-time publicity stunt, an artist taking over a feature from its originator is an old tradition in newspaper cartooning (as it is in the comic book industry). In fact, the practice has made possible the longevity of the genre's more popular strips. Examples

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that allow their panels to be rearranged in several different ways while remaining readable. Such formats usually include throwaway panels at the beginning, which some newspapers will omit for space. As a result, cartoonists have less incentive to put great efforts into these panels.

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The writing style of comic strips changed as well after World War II. With an increase in the number of college-educated readers, there was a shift away from slapstick comedy and towards more cerebral humor. Slapstick and visual gags became more confined to Sunday strips, because as

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and other newspapers which featured few or no comic strips. Hearst's critics often assumed that all the strips in his papers were fronts for his own political and social views. Hearst did occasionally work with or pitch ideas to cartoonists, most notably his continued support of

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were reduced to four columns wide (with a "transition" width of five columns). As newspapers became narrower beginning in the 1970s, strips have gotten even smaller, often being just three columns wide, a similar width to the one most daily panels occupied before the 1940s.

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librarian Randy Scott describes these as "large sheets of paper on which newspaper comics have traditionally been distributed to subscribing newspapers. Typically each sheet will have either six daily strips of a given title or one Sunday strip. Thus, a week of

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in the 1950s, caricaturing him as a bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey, a megalomaniac who was bent on taking over the characters' birdwatching club and rooting out all undesirables. Kelly also defended the medium against possible government regulation in the

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developed sophisticated caricature styles using strips of expressive comic figures with captions that could be read left to right to cumulative effect, as well as business models for advertising and selling cheap comic illustration on regular subscription.

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received a full page, and daily strips were generally the width of the page. The competition between papers for having more cartoons than the rest from the mid-1920s, the growth of large-scale newspaper advertising during most of the thirties, paper

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and Charles Schulz, among others) have done their strips almost completely by themselves; often criticizing the use of assistants for the same reasons most have about their editors hiring anyone else to continue their work after their retirement.

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was the first mass-produced publication to tell stories using illustrations and is regarded as the world's first comic strip. It satirised the political and social life of Scotland in the 1820s. It was conceived and illustrated by William Heath.

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ran to 9 editions between 1812 and 1819, spun off two sequels, a prequel, numerous pirate imitations and copies including French, German, Danish and translations. His image was available on pottery, textiles wallpaper and other merchandise.

1028:, wrote his comic series "The UpsideDowns of Old Man Muffaroo and Little Lady Lovekins". These comics were made in such a way that one could read the 6 panel comic, flip the book and keep reading. He made 64 such comics in total. 927:("Shockheaded Peter"). In the story's final act, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill, and consumed by a flock of geese (without anybody mourning their demise). 1545:, because of paper shortages, the size of Sunday strips began to shrink. After the war, strips continued to get smaller and smaller because of increased paper and printing costs. The last full-page comic strip was the 2366:

openly voicing his discontent about being forced to draw his Sunday strips in such rigid formats from the beginning. Kelly's heirs opted to end the strip in 1975 as a form of protest against the practice. Since then,

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Since the consolidation of newspaper comics by the first quarter of the 20th century, most cartoonists have used a group of assistants (with usually one of them credited). However, quite a few cartoonists (e.g.:

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The comics have long held a distorted mirror to contemporary society, and almost from the beginning have been used for political or social commentary. This ranged from the conservative slant of Harold Gray's

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used animals to particularly devastating effect, caricaturing many prominent politicians of the day as animal denizens of Pogo's Okeefenokee Swamp. In a fearless move, Pogo's creator Walt Kelly took on

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Proof sheets were the means by which syndicates provided newspapers with black-and-white line art for the reproduction of strips (which they arranged to have colored in the case of Sunday strips).

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was often displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing the truth of the situation.

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Sunday strip available only in a vertical arrangement. Most strips created since 1990, however, are drawn in the unbroken "third-page" format. Few newspapers still run half-page strips, as with

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was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature

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Sunday comics sections employed offset color printing with multiple print runs imitating a wide range of colors. Printing plates were created with four or more colors—traditionally, the

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are both drawn by the sons of the creators. Some strips which are still in affiliation with the original creator are produced by small teams or entire companies, such as Jim Davis'

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hires people to write and draw a strip and then distributes it to many newspapers for a fee. Some newspaper strips begin or remain exclusive to one newspaper. For example, the

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during the 1920s, it became commonplace for strips (comedy- and adventure-laden alike) to have lengthy stories spanning weeks or months. The "Monarch of Medioka" story in

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is one of the earliest comic strip characters and he is regarded as the first recurring character in comics. The highly popular character was spun off into his own comic,

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Sunday newspapers traditionally included a special color section. Early Sunday strips (known colloquially as "the funny papers", shortened to "the funnies"), such as

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whose picaresque journeys through England were told through a series of comic etchings, accompanied by verse. Original published in parts between 1809 and 1811 in

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into trying to kick that football. (After I left for college, my father would clip out that strip each year and send it to me just to make sure I didn't miss it.)"

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The origin of the modern English language comic strip can be traced to the efflorescence of caricature in late 18th century London. English caricaturists such as

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were known during the mid-to-late 80s and 1990s respectively for their throwaways on their Sunday strips, however both strips now run "generic" title panels.

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being an early—if not the earliest—case in which the creator retained ownership of his work.) Both these practices began to change with the 1970 debut of

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began in 1972 and paved the way for some of these strips, as its human characters were manifest in diverse forms—as animals, vegetables, and minerals.

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comics from January 11, 2011, with a character named Ned using the word "crappy". Naked backsides and shooting guns cannot be shown, according to

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newspaper magazine supplement, continuing until March 30 of that year. Between 1939 and 1943, four different stories featuring Flossy appeared on

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in two sheets, printed much larger than the final version and ready to be cut apart and fitted into the local comics page." Comic strip historian

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espoused liberal opinions for most of its run, but by the late 1960s, it became a mouthpiece for Capp's repudiation of the counterculture.

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the loss of most foreign markets outside English-speaking countries. One particularly humorous example of such promotional efforts is the

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not only mixes human, animal, and fantasy characters, but also does several different comic strip continuities under one umbrella title,

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Starting in the late 1940s, the national syndicates which distributed newspaper comic strips subjected them to very strict censorship.

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A business-driven variation has sometimes led to the same feature continuing under a different name. In one case, in the early 1940s,

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continuity from panel to panel. A horizontal strip can also be used for a single panel with a single gag, as seen occasionally in

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was a continuing strip series seen on Sunday magazine covers. Beginning January 26, 1941, it ran on the front covers of Hearst's

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s first color Sunday comic pages in 1897. On January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation's first full daily comic page in his

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Many older strips are no longer drawn by the original cartoonist, who has either died or retired. Such strips are known as "

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is sometimes found in the business section of a newspaper instead of the comics page because of the strip's commentary about

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such words as "damn", "sucks", "screwed", and "hell", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010

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covered subjects that are usually taboo in newspaper strips, such as sex and drugs. Many underground artists, notably

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written on scrolls coming out of their mouths—which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.

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occasioned one of the first comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium. When Dirks left

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using a sequence of pictures has existed through history. One medieval European example in textile form is the

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liked. Many newspaper publishers and a few cartoonists objected to this, and some papers continued to print

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rather than the comics page because of their regular political commentary. For example, the August 12, 1974

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During the 1930s, the original art for a Sunday strip was usually drawn quite large. For example, in 1930,

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also uses this theme, though the characters are mostly restricted to humans and real-life situations.

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began as strips in college newspapers under different titles, and later moved to national syndication.

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The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often clipped and saved; authors including

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cannot or can very rarely be openly discussed in strips, although there are exceptions, usually for

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mainly on adventure-based and dramatic strips. Strips begun during the mid-1980s or after (such as

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created an uproar when Lawrence, one of the strip's supporting characters, came out of the closet.

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comic strip with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the

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From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels. Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative

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was a series of seven severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as

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had begun granting ownership rights to creators (limited to new and/or hugely popular strips).

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and other syndicates often provide archives of recent strips on their websites. Some, such as

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Most comic strip characters do not age throughout the strip's life, but in some strips, like

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The history of comic strips also includes series that are not humorous, but tell an ongoing

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allows halftone dots of different colors to create an optical effect of full-color imagery.

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began appearing in a format of two strips to a page in full-size newspapers, such as the

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Single panels usually, but not always, are not broken up and lack continuity. The daily

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ran from September 8, 1937, to May 2, 1938. Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as

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as part of the London Comedy Festival. The London Cartoon Strip was created by 15 of

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initially appeared in underground publications in the 1970s before being syndicated.

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The first newspaper comic strips appeared in North America in the late 19th century.

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The world's longest comic strip is 88.9-metre (292 ft) long and on display at

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Full-page strips were eventually replaced by strips half that size. Strips such as

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During the early 20th century, comic strips were widely associated with publisher

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A number of strips have featured animals as main characters. Some are non-verbal (

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have written about their childhood collections of clipped strips. Often posted on

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In an issue related to size limitations, Sunday comics are often bound to rigid

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gained a considerable following among intellectuals during the 1920s and 1930s.

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This act is commonly criticized by modern cartoonists including Watterson and

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Here We Are Ggain: 1895-1919: the First 25 Years of American Newspaper Comics

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that appears to the eye in different gradations. The semi-opaque property of

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in which an elderly man says, "This nursing home food sucks," and a pair of

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gained popularity. Because "comic" strips are not always funny, cartoonist

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and of the incorporation of text with image, experiments with what became

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Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice

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Some cartoonists have complained about this, with Walt Kelly, creator of

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Other leading British caricaturists produced strips as well; for example

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strip which is better remembered than the strip it accompanied, Ahern's

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in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.

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put it, "Children are more likely to read Sunday strips than dailies."

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continued as a daily panel even after it expanded into a Sunday strip,

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in 1897—a strip starring two German-American boys visually modelled on

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Comic strips have also been published in Sunday newspaper magazines.

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was often drawn in the two-panel format as seen in this 1943 example.

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to avoid legal action by the AP. The latter continued to publish

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often appears on the sports page because of its subject matter.

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to draw his own version of the strip. Dirks renamed his version

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used a wide variety of characters including humans, monsters,

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included some satirical stories in comic strip format such as

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Sunday page at a size of 17" × 37". In 1937, the cartoonist

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and the rest of Europe, comic strips are also serialized in

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best known cartoonists and depicts the history of London.

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was unusual, as there were no central characters. Instead

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