De Generaal
De Generaal (''The General'') is a Dutch comic strip by Peter de Smet (1944-2003); it was published from 1971 until 1997 in ''Pep (comics), Pep'' and succeeding magazines, notably ''Eppo (comics), Eppo''. Each story consists of three or four pages and is based on running gags. Background The protagonist is a general obsessed with seizing power by chasing the Field marshal, marshal out of his fortress. He attempts to do so by using strategy or brute force, but his failures put him behind bars at the otherwise disused fortress. The general gets assisted by a professor who makes up a plan or invents a new machine to make the attempt a success, and a soldier who drives the general to the fortress to execute the plan. The soldier is vocal about his reluctance which puts him often at odds with the general. The characters are usually anonymous, only in one story it transpires that the general's forenames are Jozef Maria Ignatius. The stories are set on an open field in a parallel versio ...
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Comic Strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday papers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics. Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist, known as a cartoonist. As the word "comic" implies, strips are frequently humorous. Examples of these gag-a-day strips are '' Blondie'', ''Bringing Up Father'', ''Marmaduke'', and ''Pearls Before Swine''. In the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in ''Popeye'', ''Captain Easy'', ''Buck Rogers'', ''Tarzan'', and ''Terry and the Pira ...
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