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369		<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2026/10/toppers-draw-it-yself.html" rel="bookmark">Toppers: Draw It Y&#8217;Self</a></h2>			<div class="entry-meta">
370				Posted on: October 2, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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376<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Reglar-Fellers-Draw-It-YSelf-05-14-1933.jpg" data-lightbox="14860" data-title="Toppers: Draw It Y'Self"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1024" height="857" src="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Reglar-Fellers-Draw-It-YSelf-05-14-1933-1024x857.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-14861" srcset="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Reglar-Fellers-Draw-It-YSelf-05-14-1933-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Reglar-Fellers-Draw-It-YSelf-05-14-1933-300x251.jpg 300w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Reglar-Fellers-Draw-It-YSelf-05-14-1933-500x418.jpg 500w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Reglar-Fellers-Draw-It-YSelf-05-14-1933-1536x1285.jpg 1536w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Reglar-Fellers-Draw-It-YSelf-05-14-1933-1320x1104.jpg 1320w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Reglar-Fellers-Draw-It-YSelf-05-14-1933.jpg 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure>
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380<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Until late in the game Gene Byrnes popular <strong>Reg&#8217;lar Fellers</strong> Sunday page never had a topper. The New York Tribune syndicate, where free agent Byrnes had signed a five-year contract in 1927, was an outlier that never showed any interest in adding toppers to their Sundays, even at the height of their popularity.  But Byrnes&#8217; contract was up at the end of April 1932, and he decided to jump ship, signing a new deal with Famous Features Syndicate. </p>
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384<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Choosing Famous Features seemed like a questionable move, because comics were really n
384ot part of their portfolio. Their bread-and-butter was fiction and celebrity material. But despite seeming like a dark horse in the sweepstakes to attract Byrnes, they not only were first to the finish line but turned out to do a fine job selling his Sunday strip, which prospered in the 1930s. </p>
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388<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Reg&#8217;lar Fellers</strong> gained a topper on the very first week that Famous Features distributed the strip (May 1 1932)<sup data-fn="0ba7bc92-faf1-4734-8d1c-35f2d9f52e42" class="fn"><a href="#0ba7bc92-faf1-4734-8d1c-35f2d9f52e42" id="0ba7bc92-faf1-4734-8d1c-35f2d9f52e42-link">1</a></sup>, so evidently they saw that as an important marketing plus. They chose to use a one-tier strip, which was used in the full, tab and even by some papers in the half-page format. The strip, called <strong>Draw It Y&#8217;Self</strong>, offered one-off gags with no continuing characters, with the novelty that the punchline would only be revealed once the reader filled in a connect-the-dots puzzle. </p>
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392<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever encountered a <strong>Reg&#8217;lar Fellers</strong> Sunday tearsheet where the connect-the-dots has been filled in, so even in the 1930s when kids seemed to have a real yen for these simple activities, I guess Byrnes wasn&#8217;t really reaching them. So I went through a short stack and tried them myself<sup data-fn="d12456b8-c54e-413d-9e8c-b6e40d1e5204" class="fn"><a href="#d12456b8-c54e-413d-9e8c-b6e40d1e5204" id="d12456b8-c54e-413d-9e8c-b6e40d1e5204-link">2</a></sup>, so that I could offer you a knowledgeable opinion &#8212; this is just how seriously I take my role as arbiter of all that is good and bad in forgotten old funnies. </p>
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396<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My report is that, first, I am impressed how well Byrnes was able to conceal the subjects of his punchlines. With connect-the-dots you can often figure out the picture just by imagining the outline created by the sequence of dots. But Byrnes was often quite good at concealing the subjects, notwithstanding the sample above, in which a brick can be inferred without even so much as looking at the final panel. And occasionally the novelty works tremendously well. For instance, in one <strong>Draw It Y&#8217;Self</strong> we only see a pair of legs sitting on a log, then in panel two the legs are stretched out flat on the ground. Huh? Panel three&#8217;s dots really offer no obvious clue. After we complete the connect-the-dots, though, we see that the image is a tobacco pipe. Ah! A kid was trying out pa&#8217;s pipe on the sly, and ended up sick as a dog and desperately wishing he hadn&#8217;t. Cute! A gag that wouldn&#8217;t really cause much impression works much better because the reader &#8216;solved the mystery.&#8217;</p>
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407<ol class="wp-block-footnotes"><li id="0ba7bc92-faf1-4734-8d1c-35f2d9f52e42">Source: Editor &amp; Publisher, April 9 1932. <a href="#0ba7bc92-faf1-4734-8d1c-35f2d9f52e42-link" aria-label="Jump to footnote reference 1">↩︎</a></li><li id="d12456b8-c54e-413d-9e8c-b6e40d1e5204">Not on my tearsheets, of course, but by printing out the panels from online sources.  <a href="#d12456b8-c54e-413d-9e8c-b6e40d1e5204-link" aria-label="Jump to footnote reference 2">↩︎</a></li><li id="cec85d8c-5d4b-4cc5-8545-fdd9b343e162">Source: Brooklyn Times-Union. <a href="#cec85d8c-5d4b-4cc5-8545-fdd9b343e162-link" aria-label="Jump to footnote reference 3">↩︎</a></li></ol><div class="post-views content-post post-14860 entry-meta load-static" data-pvc-type="post" data-pvc-id="14860">
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432					<p>I consider myself a well educated mature person.<br />
433But please look again at that specific panel drawing from the email update of a man in sweaty distress. Honestly, all I can see is a cartoon character desperately rubbing one off.  My inner 10 year old?  Look at it again; you tell me</p>
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453				Posted on: September 30, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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509Teenagers have been a popular topic for newspaper comics since <strong>Harold Teen</strong> kicked off the genre in 1919. Before then, if comics were your only glimpse of the world you might well think that bratty kids grew directly into adults overnight, with practically no stage in between.</p>
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517<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The NEA syndicate, the nation&#8217;s premier <span data-tooltip="A newspaper syndicate that sells an entire roster of various features for a single rate." data-tooltip-position="top" class="inline-tooltips">blanket service</span>, already had <strong>Freckles and his Friends</strong>, which was originally a kid strip but had let its star grow into a teenager. But frankly that strip, though still inexplicably popular with newspaper editors, had about as much in common with the <strong>Archie</strong> style of teen strip as <strong>Foxy Grandpa</strong>. So NEA was looking to fill that vacancy. Since NEA for the most part kept to a standardized number of strips and panels, they were willing to get rid of <a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2026/05/under-the-radar-funny-business.html">Funny Business</a>, a panel, so they were looking for something in that format.</p>
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521<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I don&#8217;t know how long they were actively looking to fill that hole, but they got lucky that they were looking at the same time that Kate Osann found herself out of a gig and looking for new venues. Osann had been submitting gag cartoons to magazines since the 1940s, and in 1953 she had established a relationship with <strong>Collier&#8217;s</strong> magazine to regularly publish her teenage girl cartoons under the running title of <strong>Tizzy</strong><sup data-fn="5177917e-eb71-4af1-9fac-0740947bc1ea" class="fn"><a href="#5177917e-eb71-4af1-9fac-0740947bc1ea" id="5177917e-eb71-4af1-9fac-0740947bc1ea-link">1</a></sup>. You can find a wonderful assortment of them <a href="https://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2026/02/from-dick-buchanan-files-kate-osanns.html">over here</a> at <a href="https://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/">Mike Lynch Cartoons</a>. The only problem with this sweet deal for Osann is that the darn magazine went belly-up in January 1957. </p>
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525<figure class="aligncenter size-full"><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Tizzy-Colliers-1955-April-29-1.jpg" data-lightbox="14929" data-title="Under the Radar: Tizzy"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="556" height="639" src="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Tizzy-Colliers-1955-April-29-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-14945" srcset="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Tizzy-Colliers-1955-April-29-1.jpg 556w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Tizzy-Colliers-1955-April-29-1-261x300.jpg 261w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Tizzy-Colliers-1955-April-29-1-500x575.jpg 500w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Tizzy in Collier&#8217;s. Image shamelessly stolen from Mike Lynch&#8217;s website</figcaption></figure>
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529<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Having gotten used to the steady paycheck, Osann tried shopping <strong>Tizzy</strong> around, and NEA was a willing consumer for two reasons. First, the character came with a built-in audience from her magazine appearances.  Second, <strong>Tizzy</strong> fit well with NEAs generally gentle, wholesome preference in features &#8212; she wasn&#8217;t drawn as a teenage hottie, and her dealings with boys were far more chaste and ladylike than some other teen girl comics. </p>
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537<p class="wp-block-paragraph">No doubt you&#8217;ve heard of the writer (supposedly Blaise Pascal) who said &#8220;If I had more time I could have written a shorter letter.&#8221; My dear departed buddy Jim Ivey liked to adapt that sentiment to cartooning, saying that for every line he eliminated from a drawing he went through torture.  Osann definitely gets that. She&#8217;s no madwoman about it &#8212; she is willing to fill in her backgrounds with all the bits and bobs needed to establish the scene &#8212; but every line in those cartoons is there for a reason. She knows exactly what it takes to pull the reader in, and then not one single solitary more line is drawn. </p>
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549<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It&#8217;s always hard to gauge the popularity of an NEA feature, because so many papers will print it simply because it comes with the package and fills the same hole that used to contain a previous feature. But if editors really don&#8217;t like a certain feature from NEA, you can generally get a sense &#8212; despite it being &#8216;free&#8217; some just aren&#8217;t willing to waste space on it. I see very little of that behavior with <strong>Tizzy</strong>, so I can only assume that the feature was generally perceived as an asset to papers. </p>
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557<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The <strong>Tizzy</strong> daily panel ended on December 5 1970, even though it seemed to be maintaining its popularity. My guess is that Osann had simply tired of the heavy workload. NEA decided not to let <strong>Tizzy</strong> rest, though. In August 1971 their weekly service, Community Enterprise Features, began including one reprint panel per week in their blanket service. This proved reasonably popular, keeping the feature in circulation for almost another five years. The release of April 4 1975 was the last one. </p>
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605					<p>One detail I almost missed is that Tizzy never wears the same outfit twice (at least in this sample). The frequent shoes on the floor is a wonderful detail, too.</p>
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622					<p>She would look fab in a puce pantsuit and mauve pillbox hat.</p>
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644				Posted on: September 28, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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664<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Long before the Wright Brothers proved that sustained powered flight was practical, writers, dreamers, inventors and, yes, even cartoonists, were contemplating the possibilities of such technology. While Leonardo da Vinci had a bit of a jump on the cartooning brethren in that regard, you will occasionally find cartoonists broaching the subject at least as early as the 19th century. </p>
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716					<p>He came so close to inventing the heliocopter, as well…</p>
717<p>30 cents?  That’d buy you a nice meal in a diner, back then.  I would have said 2 cents… price of an all day sucker.</p>
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734					<p>There really were contraptions similar to the Highflyer<br />
735craft; I have a picture of one comprising of the balloon like this, but instead of a gondola, the rider is perched on a bicycle, which might power the propeller. It was the kind of thing you&#8217;d see in action at county fairs.<br />
736       Sandy Highflyer is also viewed among the first sci-fi scenes in comics; there is an episode (can&#8217;t cite the date, my notes are inaccessible just now) which was a ½ page panel showing Captain Highflyer out among the planets, communing with other wild airship/spaceship concoctions, having a convention of some kind. Amazingly, neither Sandy or his compatriots needed oxygen in the vacuumous void of space.</p>
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753Poe even wrote a story about traveling to the moon in a balloon which was published April 13, 1844 in the New York Sun as a true story… later published as The Balloon-Hoax.</p>
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770					<p>Sorry… the moon hoax story was:  the Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall &#8211; 1835. Which inspired the Great Moon Hoax of 1835 perpetrated by Richard Adams Locke… a lot of hoaxes floating around back then.</p>
771<p>Moon… balloon… a boon to newspaper sales.</p>
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835					<p>My first thought is of a 1970s Summer’s Eve advert…</p>
836<p>Nothing else makes you feel as fresh and clean as New Freshness.  That’s because it’s uniquely formulated with specially formulated vinegar… the ingredient doctors often recommend…</p>
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853					<p>&#8220;I cant help being fresh, I have myself flown in daily!&#8221;- Dr B.F. Pierce,M.D.</p>
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873				Posted on: September 26, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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883<p class="wp-block-paragraph">High-kicking action on and off the stage adorns this NEA <strong>Everyweek</strong> magazine cover, originally published November 10 1929. Whoever is casting this revue really likes blondes, will grudgingly accept a redhead, but will have no part of any brunettes. </p>
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887<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2017/06/ink-slinger-profiles-by-alex-jay-14.html">Dorothy Urfer</a> provided many magazine cover illustrations for NEA in the 1920s and 30s. She didn&#8217;t do a whole lot of comic stripping, but did originate the long-running <strong>Annibelle</strong> strip for NEA, though she left shortly after it moved from the <strong>Everyweek</strong> magazine to the Sunday comics section.</p>
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931					<p>I got it but with a slug of Pepto I think I&#8217;ll be alright.</p>
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948					<p>Smokey Stover would love it.</p>
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973				Posted on: September 25, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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989<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Although it isn&#8217;t on my official list of feature categories that I don&#8217;t track, I have to confess that when I see children&#8217;s submissions appearing in a newspaper I generally ignore them. Most of these are in the paper not so much to entertain readers as to encourage kids and stroke parent egos, and I don&#8217;t figure we need to pat junior on the head one more time when he&#8217;s now gumming pablum at the rest home, or pushing up daisies.</p>
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993<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Robby-Bobby in Mother Goose Land</strong>, penned by a girl in grade nine, is quite frankly not such a standout in quality that it attracted my attention; rather it was the name of the girl credited &#8212; Wanda Hazel Gag. The name rang the dimmest of bells; it was such a faint tinkle that I wondered if I was just intrigued by the funny name. But a check with Senor Google reveals that Miss Gág would go on to become an artist of some repute. Her main claim to fame is the phenomenally successful 1928 children&#8217;s book <strong>Millions of Cats</strong>, but she wrote and drew many others as well. She was also a force to be reckoned with in the fine art world, where she showed off an impressive style that is somewhat akin to Thomas Hart Benton&#8217;s.</p>
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1005<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Getting back to our obscurity of the day, <strong>Robby-Bobby in Mother Goose Land</strong> ran in the <strong>Minneapolis Journal </strong>as a b&amp;w Sunday page for an impressively long run, considering Wanda was just a kid &#8212; May 2 to July 4 1909. It is certainly not memorable for its own sake, but interesting to see early work by an amazing artist. </p>
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1031					<p>A million tarts for a million cats… for millions and billions and trillions of cats… glad that book is still in print…</p>
1032<p>I’m sure I read that one, once… will look at it again tonight… it deserves to live again…</p>
1033<p>Even her childhood home was interesting… seems to be a fun museum…</p>
1034<p>Too bad I missed her show at the Whitney… the prints in their collection are well worth a look.</p>
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1054				Posted on: September 23, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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1086<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you grew up in the heyday of Harvey comic books (<strong>Richie Rich</strong>, <strong>Hot Stuff the Little Devil</strong>, <strong>Casper the Friendly Ghost</strong>, etc.) you no doubt remember <strong>Little Audrey</strong>. Her comic book series ran for over 200 issues. Though her popularity perhaps lagged behind some of the top Harvey characters, I daresay that anyone who grew up in the 1950s-70s could easily ID her without batting an eye &#8212; those Harvey comics were absolutely ubiquitous.</p>
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1090<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Those of my generation just naturally assume <strong>Little Audrey</strong> was a Harvey comic character from the word go, but turns out t&#8217;aint so. She debuted in 1947 in a series of theatrical cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures:</p>
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1098<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And that isn&#8217;t even her ultimate origin, because before this there was the &#8220;Little Audrey story,&#8221; a joke in which a little girl &#8220;just laughs and laughs&#8221; over some dreadful or horrific situation. Here&#8217;s a taste:</p>
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1103<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Little Audrey was visiting the South Seas when she was kidnapped by a tribe of headhunters. The headhunters took her back to their village where they started a pot to boiling to cook her up. As Little Audrey was thrown into the boiling water she just laughed and laughed because she saw that she would make far too small a soup to feed the whole village. </em></p>
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1117<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What I really love about <strong>Little Audrey</strong> is the character design, which was reportedly by animator Bill Tytla. The cockeyed pigtails and the tiny skirt over tubular legs are wonderful elements, but the real showstoppers are the wide-set almond-shaped eyes. They seem to tell us implicitly that this girl is wide-eyed and innocent but full of mischief, too. Why they toned down that aspect of the character design for the comic books I don&#8217;t know.</p>
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1166					<p>Agree. A surprisingly good combination of art and gags for something that went nowhere.</p>
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1183					<p>In the novel, The Sterile Cuckoo, Pookie tells Little Audrey stories. Took me a while to figure out it wasn&#8217;t the Little Audrey from the Harvey cartoons.</p>
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1200					<p>Suitably obscure reference… story sounds interesting… will definitely check out the movie if I don’t get around to the book…</p>
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1219					<p>Lulu Was there first…</p>
1220<p>Little Lulu, Little Lulu, with freckles on your skin,<br />
1221Always in and out of trouble, but mostly always in.<br />
1222Using Dad&#8217;s necktie for the tail on your kite,<br />
1223Using Mom&#8217;s lipstick for the letters you write.</p>
1224<p>Little Lulu, Little Lulu, there&#8217;s no one quite as smart.<br />
1225Doesn&#8217;t matter what you&#8217;re doing,<br />
1226You&#8217;re doing it with your heart.</p>
1227<p>Shining curls, a dance, and there&#8217;s a sparkle in your eye.<br />
1228When can we look forward to your next surprise?<br />
1229What a surprise!<br />
1230Though the clock says 7:30, it&#8217;s really after ten,<br />
1231Looks like Lulu&#8217;s been repairing it again.</p>
1232<p>Though you&#8217;re wild, (Wild!)<br />
1233You know it&#8217;s true-lu.<br />
1234And you&#8217;re very hard to tame.<br />
1235Little Lulu, We love you-lu just the same-the-same!<br />
1236Little Lulu, we love you-lu&#8230;<br />
1237Just&#8230; the&#8230; same!</p>
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1254					<p>Reportedly, Paramount created Little Audrey as a replacement for Little Lulu when their contract for that character ended.</p>
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1273					<p>Like the other animated character strips of the time, i.e. Betty Boop, Tom &amp; Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Mister Magoo, etc., my impression was that they were seen by many editors as free advertising for the various studios&#8217; products.<br />
1274The Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny strips were based on such popular stars with a huge international fan base, they would naturally succeed, but the lesser lights of Animatia (and Audrey&#8217;s a bit down on the list) were obviously unserious, almost doomed to be short-run flashing fads to last (and sell papers) until the novelty wore off.<br />
1275Audrey&#8217;s strip was apparently always a hard sell, the only paper I ever knew it to be in was the Boston Daily Record, which also ran Mickey Mouse.</p>
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1292					<p>Interesting that you posit the existence of a tipping point to a character&#8217;s stardom. Up to that point, newspaper editors think that they are being asked to pay to publicize the character. On the other side of that line, the character is perceived to drive fans to purchase newspapers. </p>
1293<p>You are undeniably correct. Wouldn&#8217;t it be an interesting exercise for marketing gurus to determine if that line could be pinpointed? Then it would be a simple matter for syndicates to determine the marketability of a given character. Donald Duck, yes. Pink Panther, no. Muppets, yes. The Simpsons, no. Of course today pop culture is so fragmented that everything would fall on the &#8216;no&#8217; side, so the project is too late.</p>
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1310					<p>Wonder if major cartoon studios like Disney and Warner flipped the equation by pricing their comic strips cheap or even free, so editors got a big name at a bargain price. The studios could produce the strips comparatively cheaply by using in-house talent.</p>
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1327					<p>DBenson, That seems a smart strategy for second-tier characters especially. Mark, can you weigh in on whether King Features and the copyright holders ever set pricing based on popularity of a licensed character, or a desire to use a feature as advertising for a lesser known character?</p>
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1344					<p>Recalling the Sunday strip &#8220;Walt Disney&#8217;s Treasury of Classic Tales&#8221;. That was a straight-up commercial for upcoming Disney movies and ran in the San Jose Mercury News, where I remember it running into the mid-70s (Wikipedia says it lasted to 1987). I could imagine that being offered free to newspapers, but the Disney people had a particular genius for getting paid to promote themselves.</p>
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1369					<p>We should also consider how important to the copyright owner was the property; was it good publicity of any appreciable measure to have the character in a comic strip that is seen in a small number of papers? If Audrey was in the big city Seattle and Boston Hearst papers, that would seem like the right places for reader exposure, but still it never gained any fans.<br />
1370 Maybe it reflects on the animated cartoons as well. There were only twelve of them ever made, from 1947 to 1959; averaging two a year, then one, and even once, (1956) none. Obviously, there was no demand for any more. Paramount&#8217;s &#8216;Famous Studios&#8217; had only one superstar, Popeye, which they didn&#8217;t own. Of the characters they did, probably Casper the Ghost was their most popular, and actually licensable. When I was a child, I had a Casper statue lamp with a shade showing him riding a carousel. Gad, I hated that thing. Probably would be a valuable antique now.<br />
1371Famous had apparently little interest in Audrey. Sure there were comic books of her for a while about 1949-50 by a small publisher, the art being a bit cruder than the strip. But after that, Audrey, as well as the other Famous stars like Katnip and Baby Huey meant so little to them the whole stable was sold to Harvey publications in 1959, which not only gave them a bunch of new comic book characters, the deal included the rights to the films.<br />
1372 Harvey renamed the whole package of post-1948 Famous cartoons &#8216;Harveytoons&#8217;, and they got their investment back a hundred times over instantly by putting them on TV for the first time. Maybe some of you older kids will remember &#8216;Matty&#8217;s Funday Funnies?&#8217; Paramount was just so uncaring about their properties it&#8217;s almost something like high contempt, to match their high stupidity.</p>
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1389					<p>&#8220;Matty&#8217;s Sunday Funnies&#8221; was succeeded by &#8220;Beany and Cecil&#8221;, which I think originally had Matty Mattel in some of the animated bumpers. Later there was a Saturday morning show called &#8220;Cartoonies&#8221;, showing Harveytoons and hosted by ventriloquist Paul Winchell.</p>
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1408					<p>What Mattel did was to replace the &#8216;Harveytoons&#8217; in their &#8216;Funday Funnies&#8217; time slot at ABC after three years with something new, and brand-new, made for TV animated series were hot programming in the early 60s. The choice of one based on the formerly live-action &#8216;Time For Beany&#8217; puppet show characters was quite an opportunity for Mattel and Bob Clampett, for a licensing bonanza.<br />
1409         Harvey merely went into syndication with their film library, and did quite well with them right into the 1990s. That Winch could use them in one of his shows perhaps just indicates they were an inexpensive and easily available package of colour cartoons.</p>
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1426					<p>To answer the question of pricing the strips to clients based on the popularity of the characters, the big ones from Disney sold themselves, practically.  Editors would consider them instantly compatible for readership, and the higher prices asked would be met. The syndicate, though, would be making only the money for the work of syndicating, and nothing from licensing.<br />
1427    Now, something like Audrey or Woody Woodpecker,   et al; would have the same setup. But they would require more salesmanship to put them over with editors than they might be worth. The sure-fire Disney titles were one thing, but spending much time promoting items with only a low return would be wasted effort for syndicate salesmen; more profitable to his company and better commissions would be had if he&#8217;d push company-owned properties with an already established presence. This, by the way, is one of the reasons it&#8217;s so hard to launch any strip. At one point, it&#8217;s going to be in the hands of the travelling sales guys.</p>
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1447				Posted on: September 21, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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1487<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Farmyard Follies</strong> is a feature that I stumbled upon by pure luck. It ran for eight episodes in the <strong>Crescent</strong> (OK) <strong>Times</strong>, and nowhere else that I can find. Although there are no syndicate stamps on the strips, two factors pretty much guarantee this is Lincoln material: one, the strip is by Lincoln bullpenner M.E. Brady, and two, the titles employ the distinctive Lincoln font. </p>
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1495<p class="wp-block-paragraph">M.E. Brady was one of the few Lincoln bullpenners who got to have his own name on a lot of his work. But that didn&#8217;t apply to <strong>Farmyard Follies</strong> &#8212; here he is bylined as &#8220;Rhyne.&#8221; But that&#8217;s okay, because Brady did get his name on these strips, just in their original runs &#8212; yes, these are merely reprints from an earlier strip Brady had done for the <strong>Brooklyn Eagle</strong> variously titled <a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2014/05/obscurity-of-day-dip-and-duck-or-forest.html"><strong>Dip And Duck</strong>, or <strong>Frogpond Ferry</strong></a>.</p>
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1544					<p>Appears to be an attempt to cross &#8220;Krazy Kat&#8221; with &#8220;Pogo&#8221;</p>
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1563		<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2026/09/wish-you-were-here-from-r-f-outcault-8.html" rel="bookmark">Wish You Were Here, from R.F. Outcault</a></h2>			<div class="entry-meta">
1564				Posted on: September 20, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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1570<figure class="aligncenter size-full"><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Postcard-Outcault-Buster-Broiwn-Coffee-Kaufmann-and-Strauss.jpg" data-lightbox="14541" data-title="Wish You Were Here, from R.F. Outcault"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="637" src="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Postcard-Outcault-Buster-Broiwn-Coffee-Kaufmann-and-Strauss.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-14542" srcset="https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Postcard-Outcault-Buster-Broiwn-Coffee-Kaufmann-and-Strauss.jpg 1000w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Postcard-Outcault-Buster-Broiwn-Coffee-Kaufmann-and-Strauss-300x191.jpg 300w, https://comicstriphistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Postcard-Outcault-Buster-Broiwn-Coffee-Kaufmann-and-Strauss-500x319.jpg 500w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100v
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1574<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Here&#8217;s a postcard that&#8217;s just brimming with esoteric trivia. First off, it&#8217;s an advertising postcard for Buster Brown Coffee, which was a product of the Steinwender-Stoffregen Coffee Company of St. Louis. The company was one of the biggest coffee roasting concerns in the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Their flagship brand was Yale Coffee, which I&#8217;ve never heard of, but I&#8217;m assured it was almost as much a household word as Folgers or Maxwell House in its day.</p>
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1578<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Outcault seems to have first licensed his character to the coffee company in December 1905; at least that&#8217;s when the first advertisements are seen. This date makes sense because this is when Outcault was leavintg the <strong>New York Herald </strong>and asserting his licensing rights to the character.</p>
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1582<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But I hear you saying, &#8220;Dude, the copyright on the card is plainly 1903. Your date seems to be a little off&#8221;. Maybe not, oh eagle-eyed one. See, the Steinwender-Stoffregen Company repurposed their advertising postcards from old Outcault cards that had been produced for Kaufmann &amp; Strauss. The previous gag lines were replaced and sometimes the cards were partially redrawn to hawk the coffee. In this case I haven&#8217;t found the original card to compare to, but I&#8217;d bet dollars to donuts that there was a different character than Buster Brown featured. Buster and Tige seem to have been drawn by someone other than Outcault &#8212; apparently someone who&#8217;d never seen the strip but went off of a vague description of the famous pair.</p>
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1586<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Marketing a primarily adult-oriented beverage like coffee with Buster Brown doesn&#8217;t seem like that great a fit, but as with many Buster Brown-branded items, the coffee was a success. It was still available right up until Steinwender-Stoffregen went out of business in 1931. </p>
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1611						<a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2026/09/wish-you-were-here-from-r-f-outcault-8.html#comment-20696"><time datetime="2026-09-20T12:10:56-03:00">September 20, 2026 at 12:10 pm</time></a>					</div><!-- .comment-metadata -->
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1616					<p>Buster pushed seegars, too.</p>
1617<p>RESOLVED:<br />
1618THAT TO BE SPANKED FOR Smoking is an injustice when I took such pains to RESIST TEMPTATION &#8211; AND PA SMOKES Em.</p>
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1637		<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2026/09/one-shot-wonders-war-preparedness-in-buffalo-1898.html" rel="bookmark">One-Shot Wonders: War Preparedness in Buffalo, 1898</a></h2>			<div class="entry-meta">
1638				Posted on: September 19, 2026<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://comicstriphistory.com/author/allan">Allan Holtz</a></span></span>			</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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1648<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The <strong>Buffalo Courier </strong>had a pretty neat homegrown colour comics page through part of 1898. The editor of the paper evidently quite liked cartooning in his Sunday edition; not only did they have their own artists contributing quite a lot of material in this period, but they were also an early adopter of the <a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/category/international-syndicate">International Syndicate</a>&#8216;s page of cartoon gags.  </p>
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1652<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But all that changed later in 1898. Reproducing photos was a real tough nut to crack for newspapers at this time, and the <strong>Courier</strong> seems to have come up with methods that worked really well. So enamored did they become of reproducing photos that the spotlight moved away from cartoons to page after page of photos in the Sunday papers. </p>
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1656<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Above we have a one-shot cartoon that ran in the <strong>Courier </strong>during that short-lived heyday of cartooning, on February 27 1898. I 
1656imagine if you were a resident of Buffalo during that time this is some funny stuff, but many of the inside jokes are too far inside for me. The cartoon was by a staff cartoonist named Parker. I&#8217;ve looked at a lot of his cartoons trying to suss out the initials that go along with the name, but all I can say is that &#8220;H.S.&#8221; is my best guess. But if it were a horse in a horse race, I wouldn&#8217;t bet big.</p>
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1682					<p>If I had to pick a horse, that horse would say that the first initial of the signature was F.</p>
1683<p>I searched the 1900 Buffalo census for men surnamed Parker, not too young, not too old, and out of a hundred or so checked a few with plausible names, but none of them had listed anything like &#8216;artist&#8217; as a profession.</p>
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1700					<p>A valiant effort Whygh, thanks for trying!</p>
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1984<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://itsthecat.com/blog/" target="_blank">Mark Kausler's CatBlog</a><br>
1985<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://michaelmaslin.com/" target="_blank">Michael Maslin's Inkspill</a><br>
1986<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mike Lynch Cartoons</a><br>
1987<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.nationalcartoonists.com/" target="_blank">National Cartoonists Society</a><br>
1988<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://panelsandprose.com/" target="_blank">Panels & Prose</a><br>
1989<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://sundaypressbooks.com/" target="_blank">Sunday Press Books</a><br>
1990<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tenth Letter of the Alphabet</a><br>
1991<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Yesterday's Papers</a><br>
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1997<p>My name is Allan Holtz. I am a comic strip historian, and author of <a target="_blank" title="American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide: Holtz, Allan: 9780472117567: Amazon.com: Books" href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Newspaper-Comics-Encyclopedic-Reference/dp/0472117564">"American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide"</a>. This blog is my outlet for all manner of interesting, oddball and rare material related to comic strip history. It is also a forum where others interested in comic strip history are encouraged to participate through the comments, or even by contributing articles. Have some information about a strip or cartoonist you'd like to share? I'd love to hear from you! You are encouraged to post comments or email me directly (see below). Note: All images on this blog are thumbnails - click on the images to see full size readable versions. </p>
1998<p><b>Esteemed Contributors</b><br>
1999				<a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/13853813871679075974" target="_blank">Jeffrey Lindenblatt</a><br>
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2001Jim Ivey (contributor emeritus)
2002</p>
2003<hr>
2004<br>
2005<b>Emailing the Stripper</b><p></p>
2006<p>I love to hear from you, but if you want to be sure that I receive your e-mail and respond, then you should <b><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2009/04/e-mailing-stripper.html">read this post first.</a></b></p><p>
2007<b>Legalities</b></p>
2008<p>All editorial matter on this blog is Copyright ©2005-2026 by Allan Holtz, except editorial matter in posts signed by Alex Jay, and may not be reproduced without permission. All Rights Reserved. All images of comic strip art are copyright by their respective copyright holders except those in public domain. If you are the copyright holder of an image displayed on this blog and would like a specific copyright displayed, or believe the display transcends fair use, please <a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2009/04/e-mailing-stripper.html">contact me</a>.</p>
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2217<p>9-19-2026: Since Bill Watterson isn&#8217;t returning my calls, I&#8217;m looking to contract with a cartoonist to produce some logo cartoons for recurring features on this website. I&#8217;m looking for someone who can produce work that echoes or re-imagines classic newspaper cartooning. If interested in the job, please <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#32535e5e535c72515d5f5b514146405b425a5b41465d404b1c515d5f">write me privately</a> with some sample work and a ballpark on pricing. </p>
2218<p>3-12-2026: Old Doc Hermes has been messaged on LiveJournal, thanks to a Stripper&#8217;s Guide reader. Keeping my fingers crossed Doc Hermes responds&#8230;</p>
2219<p>2-28-2026: Trying to contact &#8220;Old Doc Hermes&#8221; to answer an important research question but can&#8217;t seem to create a LiveJournal account to post a comment on his page. Does anyone have a LiveJournal account? If so, could you contact him and let him know I&#8217;m trying to connect? His page is: <a href="https://olddochermes2.livejournal.com/">Old Doc Hermes LiveJournal</a></p>
2220<p>7-28-2025: Turns out the problem wasn&#8217;t so much bots but a programmer who doesn&#8217;t bother to test new code at my webhost. After blaming everything but sunspots, webhost finally fixed their mistake and the site can now take comments again. Please let me know if you still have problems.</p>
2221<p>7-26-2025: The website is being pummelled by bots these past few days, and they have been causing some of you to receive 403 Forbidden errors, especially when trying to leave comments. I apologize for the problem, we are working at solving it. </p>
2222<p>3-1-2025: Registered users will now see a menu bar along the top of the site, when logged in. From this menu you can update your user information and get a preview of upcoming Stripper&#8217;s Guide posts!</p>
2223<p>12-30-2024: End of year status &#8212; MailPoet has done some tinkering and the new post emails have been going out most of the time these past weeks. When the emails do not &#8216;fire&#8217; I supplement with a manual email. MailPoet is still trying to figure out a definitive solution. Otherwise the site is seemingly working well, but if you find a problem please let me know. In the new year we will begin to roll out some new features!</p>
2224<p>10-23-2024: With the invaluable help of several SG users we figured out the cause of the 403 errors and our hosting service has changed some settings so they should not happen again. On the other hand, New Post emails still are going out rarely, and we continue to go round and round with MailPoet support to figure out the cure. </p>
2225<p>10-19-2024: The problem with 403 errors when saving comments has been experienced by several users (even myself). Hosting service is trying to figure out the problem. Till then, when you make a comment save the text locally before you submit, just in case.</p>
2226<p>
222610-16-2024: &#8230;and New Post emails are once again dead. Also, if you are getting errors when you try to leave a comment please let me know the error, your browser, your platform, and your IP if you know it. We are trying to figure out why at least one account is having this problem.</p>
2227<p>10-12-2024: Now that I am paying MailPoet $10 per month to use their ostensibly free plug-in, New Post emails are miraculously working. </p>
2228<p>10-02-2024: &#8230;.and New Post emails are once again not sending. Argh.</p>
2229<p>Sep-30-2024: Keep your fingers crossed; new post emails seem to be going out once again, hopefully for good.</p>
2230<p>Sep-21-2024: New Post emails are not going out since we upgraded. We don&#8217;t know when we will get them back online.</p>
2231<p>Sep-17-2024: The site has been upgraded to a faster server. Hopefully everything is still working, but if you discover a problem please let me know!</p>
2232<p>Sep-15-2024: As is often the case with emails routing through services like we use for our New Post notifications, if you think you are not receiving them, do check in the Spam or Trash folders, especially I am told if you have a yahoo mail account. </p>
2233<p>Sept-7-2024: We are aware that saving comments is EXTREMELY slow. We are working at getting transferred to a faster server.</p>
2234<p>Sept-4-2024: The New Post emails are working! If you registered before we offered them, you can sign up now by making a comment on a post. There is a check box there for being added to the New Post list.</p>
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2275<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Yesterday's Papers</a><br>
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2281<p>My name is Allan Holtz. I am a comic strip historian, and author of <a target="_blank" title="American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide: Holtz, Allan: 9780472117567: Amazon.com: Books" href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Newspaper-Comics-Encyclopedic-Reference/dp/0472117564">"American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide"</a>. This blog is my outlet for all manner of interesting, oddball and rare material related to comic strip history. It is also a forum where others interested in comic strip history are encouraged to participate through the comments, or even by contributing articles. Have some information about a strip or cartoonist you'd like to share? I'd love to hear from you! You are encouraged to post comments or email me directly (see below). Note: All images on this blog are thumbnails - click on the images to see full size readable versions. </p>
2282<p><b>Esteemed Contributors</b><br>
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2285Jim Ivey (contributor emeritus)
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2290<p>I love to hear from you, but if you want to be sure that I receive your e-mail and respond, then you should <b><a href="https://comicstriphistory.com/2009/04/e-mailing-stripper.html">read this post first.</a></b></p><p>
2291<b>Legalities</b></p>
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