''Little Mary Mixup'' was an American

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 ...

drawn by Robert Moore Brinkerhoff, which ran from January 2, 1918, to February 2, 1957.

History

''Little Mary Mixup'' debuted as a

gag-a-day A gag-a-day comic strip is the style of writing comic cartoons such that every installment of a strip delivers a complete joke or some other kind of artistic statement. It is opposed to story or continuity strips, which rely on the development of ...

strip featuring a mischievous nine-year-old girl. However, Mary aged slowly over time, and by

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, she was an adventurous teenager who could participate in the war. By then, ''Little Mary Mixup'' had developed from a gag strip into an adventure strip that involved kidnappers, crooks, and a treasure hunt. However, the

Sunday strips The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in most western newspapers, almost always in color. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, the funny papers or simply the funnies. The first US newspap ...

were separated from the daily continuity and continued to feature simple gags. The Sunday page also had a topper strip, ''All in the Family'', drawn by Brinkerhoff. The topper ran from April 3, 1932, to July 21, 1940. The strip was distributed by Press Publishing (New York World) (1918-1931),

World Feature Service The ''New York World'' was one of the first newspapers to publish comic strips, starting around 1890, and contributed greatly to the development of the American comic strip. Notable strips that originated with the ''World'' included Richard F. Out ...

(1931-1932) and

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 ...

(1933–1957). The strip appeared in 143 mostly minor newspapers. It ended in 1957, when Brinkerhoff retired.

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