''Winnie the Pooh'' is a 1978-1988 daily comic strip based on the

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characters created by A.A. Milne in his 1920s books. The strip ran from June 19, 1978, until April 2, 1988. This is one of many Disney comic strips that have run in newspapers since 1930. Based on the Disney adaptations of the characters, the strip was written by Don Ferguson and drawn by Richard Moore, although the feature was usually billed as "by Disney." The strip features the full cast of Winnie the Pooh's friends:

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, Rabbit,

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, Piglet, Kanga, and

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. To the established cast of characters, Ferguson and Moore (along with

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who helped develop the strip) added Sir Brian and his dragon, inspired by characters from Milne's poetry. Sir Brian is introduced in the first strip, on June 19; the Dragon appears in the third strip, on June 21. No explanation is given for how Sir Brian ended up in the

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and became friends with Winnie the Pooh. In fact, in that first strip, Pooh is awoken early in the morning by a terrible clattering noise and, in the last panel, he looks out the window and observes Sir Brian jogging in his suit of armor. Pooh remarks, "I sure wish Sir Brian would get himself a sweat suit for his early-morning jogging!"—implying that this is a regular occurrence that Pooh is already tired of. The comic has been noted by critics for the characterization of Winnie the Pooh, who is sometimes demanding, thoughtless and insulting to his friends. In a 2015 blog post, animator Floyd Norman reflected on the style of his colleague, Don Ferguson: In 2019,

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released a reprint collection of the strip's Sunday pages, ''365 Days with Winnie the Pooh''.

Comic book

Western Publishing began publishing ''Winnie the Pooh'' as a quarterly

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in January 1977, and published 33 issues, the last released in 1984. This book predated the ''Winnie the Pooh'' comic strip by a year and a half, but Sir Brian and the Dragon—introduced in the strip in June 1978—began appearing in the comic book with issue #14 (Aug 1979).

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