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Shirley And Son
Shirley and Son was an American comic strip drawn by Jerry Bittle Jerry Bittle (October 8, 1949 – April 9, 2003) was a cartoonist who drew the comic strips '' Geech'' and '' Shirley and Son''. Bittle was born in Wichita, Kansas and was the son of a barber. A graduate of Wichita State University in Kansas, he .... The strip dealt with the life of eight-year-old Louis, whose parents, Shirley and Roger, are divorced. Louis hopes Shirley and Roger will remarry but they are each getting along with their own lives. The strip debuted on September 27, 2000, and ended on May 25, 2003, as a result of Bittle's unexpected death. References External links ''Shirley and Son'' at GoComics.com American comic strips {{comic-strip-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Bittle
Jerry Bittle (October 8, 1949 – April 9, 2003) was a cartoonist who drew the comic strips '' Geech'' and '' Shirley and Son''. Bittle was born in Wichita, Kansas and was the son of a barber. A graduate of Wichita State University in Kansas, he worked as an editorial cartoonist for the ''Wichita Eagle'' and later the ''Albuquerque Tribune''."Jerry Bittle, 53; Created Comic Strip 'Shirley and Son'," ''Los Angeles Times'' (April 11, 2003). Bittle moved to , Texas in 1978 where he worked as a freelance artist and illustrator. He debuted ''Geech'' in 1982; it ran in syndication until his death in 2003. ''Shirley and Son'', about life after |
United Features Syndicate
United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along with the Newspaper Enterprise Association) from 1978 to 2011, and is now a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication. United Features has syndicated many notable comic strips, including ''Peanuts'', ''Garfield'', ''Li'l Abner'', ''Dilbert'', '' Nancy'', and ''Marmaduke''. History United Feature Syndicate was formed in 1919.Booker, M. Keith. "United Feature Syndicate," in ''Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas'' ( ABC-CLIO, 2014), p. 399."United Feature Syndicate Buys Metropolitan Service From Elser: Both Firms Will Retain Separate Identities, With Elser Remaining as Vice-President — Monte Bourjaily to Direct Both Organizations," ''Editor & Publisher'' (March 15, 1930). Archived a"News of Yore 1930: Another Syndicate Gobble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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