''Health Capsules'' is a comic strip syndicated by
United Feature 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 wit ...
since February 20, 1961.
The comic panel answers reader's health-related questions, accompanied by a humorous illustration. ''Health Capsules'' is currently produced by Bron Smith.
Publication history
''Health Capsules'' was originally produced by Dr. Michael A. Petti and cartoonist
Jud Hurd
Jud Hurd (1913 – September 14, 2005)Astor, Dave. "Comic Creator and 'Cartoonist Profiles' Editor Jud Hurd Dies," ''Editor & Publisher'' (September 19, 2005). Archived aPolitical Cartoonists Index Accessed Nov. 24, 2018. was a syndicated newspa ...
, beginning in 1961 until 2002,
[Hurd, Jud]
"Health Capsules,"
''Cartoon Success Secrets: A Tribute to 30 Years of Cartoonist Profiles'' (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2004), pp. 52–53. when it was taken over by Bron Smith.
Hurd was awarded the
National Cartoonist Society
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...
Special Features Award for ''Health Capsules'' in 1978.
Contents
GoComics characterizes ''Health Capsules'' this way:
Each comic ends with the caption "''Health Capsules'' is not intended to be diagnostic in nature."
References
External links
''Health Capsules''at GoComics
{{United Media Comics
1961 comics debuts
Non-fiction comic strips
Educational comics
American comic strips