''Trudy'' is the title character of a

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 ...

about a suburban homemaker by

Jerry Marcus Jerry Marcus (June 27, 1924, Brooklyn, New York – July 22, 2005, Waterbury, Connecticut) was a prolific freelance gag cartoonist who also created the syndicated newspaper comic strip '' Trudy''. A high school drop-out, Marcus was rejected by th ...

which debuted on March 18, 1963. It was syndicated until August 20, 2005, after Marcus died on July 22 of that year.

King Features Syndicate King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editoria ...

distributed the Sunday and daily strips to more than 200 newspapers worldwide.

Characters and story

Homemaker Trudy finds time to manage the house, her husband, their children and pets, including the family cat, Fatkat. Marcus claimed the central character of Trudy was based on his mother, who had to raise four children in a Brooklyn cold-water flat after his father died when he was three years old.

References

* Strickler, Dave. ''Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924–1995: The Complete Index.'' Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995.

External links

King Features: ''Trudy''
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