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List Of Years In Comics
This page indexes the individual year in comics pages. Each year is annotated with significant events as reference points. __NOTOC__ 2010s - 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - Pre-1930s Pre-1930s * Before 1900s in comics * 1900s in comics - debut: ''Happy Hooligan'', '' Little Jimmy'', ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' * 1910s in comics - debut: ''Krazy Kat'', ''Polly and Her Pals'' * 1920s in comics - debut: ''The Adventures of Tintin'', ''Little Orphan Annie'', '' Skippy'', ''Rupert Bear'', ''Popeye'' 1930s *1930 in comics - debut: '' Blondie'', '' Scorchy Smith'', '' Quick et Flupke''; debut as comic strip: ''Mickey Mouse'' * 1931 in comics - debut: ''The Little King'', ''Dick Tracy, Norakuro'' * 1932 in comics - debut: ''Alley Oop'', ''Jane'', ''Conan the Barbarian''; debut as comic strip: ''Silly Symphony'' * 1933 in comics - debut: ''Dickie Dare'', ''Brick Bradford'' * 1934 in comics - debut: ''Li'l Abner'', ''Flash Gordon'', ''Mandrake the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus amongst theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; '' fumetti'' is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comic albums, and ' have become increasingly common, while online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century. The histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krazy Kat
''Krazy Kat'' (also known as ''Krazy & Ignatz'' in some reprints and compilations) is an US, American newspaper comic strip, by cartoonist George Herriman, which ran from 1913 to 1944. It first appeared in the ''New York Journal-American, New York Evening Journal'', whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run. The characters had been introduced previously in a side strip with Herriman's earlier creation, ''The Dingbat Family''. The phrase "Krazy Kat" originated there, said by the mouse by way of describing the cat. Set in a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's vacation home of Coconino County, Arizona, ''Krazy'' mixture of offbeat surrealism, innocent playfulness and poetic, idiosyncratic language has made it a favorite of comics aficionados and art critics for more than 80 years.Shannon.McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 26. The strip focuses on the curious relationship between a guileless, carefree, simple-minded cat named Krazy and a sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In Comics
Events and publications Year overall January * January 7: Kho Wang Gie's comic strip ''Put On'' makes its debut and will continue for 30 years. *January 19: The first episode of the ''Mickey Mouse'' story ''Mickey Mouse Vs. Kat Nipp'' by Floyd Gottfredson is published. Kat Nipp, already Mickey’s antagonist in some animated shorts, makes his comics debut in this story. * January 21: After the death of C. W. Kahles the comic strip ''Hairbreadth Harry'' is continued by F.O. Alexander. February * February 26: The first episode of the ''Mickey Mouse'' story ''Boxing champion'' by Floyd Gottfredson is published, which marks the debut of Gideon Goat. *February 28: The final gag of Harold C. Earnshaw's newspaper comic strip ''The Pater'' is published. March * March 23: The first episode of Roland J. Scott's long-running newspaper comic ''Scott's Scrapbook'' is published, which will continue up until 1967. April * April 17: In E.C. Segar's ''Thimble Theatre'' Popeye first quotes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse is an animated cartoon Character (arts), character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves. Taking inspiration from such Silent film, silent film personalities as Charlie Chaplin’s The Tramp, Tramp, Mickey is traditionally characterized as a sympathetic underdog who gets by on pluck and ingenuity. The character’s status as a small mouse was personified through his diminutive stature and falsetto voice, the latter of which was originally provided by Disney. Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable and universally acclaimed fictional characters of all time. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short ''Plane Crazy'', debuting publicly in the short film ''Steamboat Willie'' (1928), one of the first Sound film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quick Et Flupke
''The exploits of Quick and Flupke'' (french: link=no, Quick et Flupke, gamins de Bruxelles, ) was a comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Serialised weekly from January 1930 to 1940 in , the children's supplement of conservative Belgian newspaper ("''The Twentieth Century''"), the series ran alongside Hergé's better known ''The Adventures of Tintin''. It continued for one extra year in ''Le Soir Jeunesse'' until 1941. It revolves around the lives of two misbehaving boys, Quick and Flupke, who live in Brussels, and the conflict that they get into with a local policeman. In 1983, the series provided the basis for an animated television adaptation. History Background Abbé Norbert Wallez appointed Hergé editor of a children's supplement for the Thursday issues of , titled ("''The Little Twentieth''"). Carrying strong Catholic and fascist messages, many of its passages were explicitly anti-semitic. For this new venture, Hergé illustrated ''L'Extraordinaire Aventure de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scorchy Smith
''Scorchy Smith'' is an American adventure comic strip created by artist John Terry that ran from March 17, 1930 to December 30, 1961. Scorchy Smith was a pilot-for-hire whose initial adventures took him across America, fighting criminals and aiding damsels in distress. Later, Scorchy traveled the world fighting spies and foreign aggression. Publication history Terry and Sickles Charles Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight increased interest in aviation, and together with several other flight-related adventure strips, ''Scorchy Smith'' debuted in 1930, created by John Terry for AP Newsfeatures. When Terry developed fatal tuberculosis in 1933, the strip was assigned to Noel Sickles; Sickles' first credited strip ran on April 2, 1934. Sickles increased the popularity of ''Scorchy Smith'', which became AP's leading strip. Sickles' impressionistic style and cinematic compositions, plus his frequent use of areas of pure black ink and Zipatone shading, was dramatically different from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie (comic Strip)
''Blondie'' is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young. The comic strip is distributed by King Features Syndicate, and has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. The success of the strip, which features the eponymous blonde and her sandwich-loving husband, led to the long-running '' Blondie'' film series (1938–1950) and the popular '' Blondie'' radio program (1939–1950). Chic Young wrote and drew ''Blondie'' until his death in 1973, when creative control passed to his son Dean Young. A number of artists have assisted on drawing the strip over the years, including Alex Raymond, Jim Raymond, Paul Fung Jr., Mike Gersher, Stan Drake, Denis Lebrun, Jeff Parker, and (since 2005) John Marshall. Despite these changes, ''Blondie'' has remained popular, appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers in 47 countries and translated into 35 languages. From 2006 to 2013, ''Blondie'' had also been available via email through King Features' DailyINK servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
