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GoComics
GoComics is a website launched in 2005 by the digital entertainment provider Uclick. It was originally created as a distribution portal for comic strips on mobile phones. However, in 2006, the site was redesigned and expanded to include online strips and cartoons. GoComics publishes editorial cartoons, mobile content, and daily comic strip, daily comics. It is currently owned by Andrews McMeel Universal.Dwyer, Ed"CULTURE: The Funny Papers: Newspapers may be in trouble, but the comic strip is alive and well — and flourishing online,"''Saturday Evening Post'' (November 7, 2016). Comics are currently arranged into feature pages, which display the latest comic strips within a 14-day archive for non-users, a 30-day archive for registered members, or the entire archive for Premium members. Other features such as descriptions of strip characters, biographical information about cartoonists and links to other recommended feature pages are often included. As of 2016, GoComics had more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking Cat News
''Breaking Cat News'' is a comic strip created by cartoonist Georgia Dunn and distributed to newspapers and the GoComics website through Andrews McMeel Syndication. Publication history Dunn created the strip after relocating to her native Westerly, Rhode Island, after living in Seattle from 2010 to early 2014. She returned to the Seattle area in 2017. The strip made its debut on March 12, 2014, initially self-syndicated by Dunn. It has been available on the GoComics website since October 20, 2014. Andrews McMeel Publishing released the first collection of the strips in 2016. In the foreword, Dunn shared that she got the idea for the strip when one of her cats created a mess, prompting the others to investigate. This incident inspired her to envision them as 24-hour news cycle, television news channel reporters and to develop distinct voices for them. Story The main characters in ''Breaking Cat News'' are based on Dunn's own cats Elvis, Lupin, and Puck, augmented by newer ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Orphan Annie
''Little Orphan Annie'' was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and print syndication#Comic strip syndication, syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and it made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York ''Daily News (New York), Daily News''. The plot followed the wide-ranging adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy and her benefactor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. Secondary characters include Punjab, the Asp and Mr. Am. The strip attracted adult readers with political commentary that targeted (among other things) organized labor, the New Deal and communism. Following Gray's death in 1968, several artists drew the strip and, for a time, "classic" strips were rerun. ''Little Orphan Annie'' inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO Pictures, RKO in 1932 and Paramount Pictures, Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway theatre, Broadway musical ''Annie (musical), Annie'' in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bozo (comic Strip)
''Bozo'', the first pantomime-style comic strip, was created by the cartoonist Francis X. Reardon (with the pen name Foxo Reardon, or FoXo Reardon), who penned it beginning from 1921, until his death from cancer in 1955. ''Bozo'' is called America's original pantomime comic strip. ''Bozo'' ran both as a daily comic strip as well as on Sundays. The word " bozo", that was practically unknown in the 1920s, was popularized by the cartoonist Foxo Reardon through this weekly newspaper strip, decades before the appearance of Bozo the Clown. About Bozo Comics The character Bozo was created by ''Foxo Reardon'' at age 16. Starting as early as 1925, the comic strip appeared as a local weekly in '' The Times-Dispatch'' until it achieved national and international syndication through the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate in 1945. Bozo appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Sunday for twenty years before it was syndicated nationally and internationally by Field Enterprises in 1945. Bozo w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barkeater Lake
''Barkeater Lake'' is a webcomic by cartoonist Corey Pandolph, originally published by United Media as part of its Comics.com website from early 2004 through January 5, 2007. Pandolph began publishing the online strip independently on January 22, 2007. Pandolph has published two trade paperback collections: ''Welcome to Barkeater Lake'' and ''Escape from Barkeater Lake''. On September 4, 2009, shortly after the strip returned to GoComics.com, Pandolph announced the strip would end its run October 31, 2009. About The ensemble strip, taking place in the titular small Adirondack Mountains town in New York state, revolves around the surreal, picaresque misadventures of big-city expatriate Delores Tanzini, eccentric locals, and the two owner-proprietors of local gathering spot Chuck's Bar: Chuck, a former Olympics bobsled contender and coach, and Banks, a jaded and erudite anthropomorphic dog. Recurring characters include Delores' mother, the vodka-sipping evil mastermind Sabrina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldo (Hector Cantú Comic Strip)
''Baldo'' is an American comic strip written by Hector Cantú and illustrated by Carlos Castellanos. It was launched on April 17, 2000. Characters Primary * Baldomero "Baldo" Bermudez is the titular character. A Latino teenager, his primary interests are cars and girls. He is also obsessed with being cool, and is in the middle of an ongoing process to build his own lowrider out of a 1964 Chevrolet Impala. He has a job at ''Auto Y Rod'', an auto supply shop (whose logo resembles that of Mercedes-Benz), and according to comic strips in January 2007 and August 2011, he is 15 years old. * Graciela "Gracie" Bermudez is Baldo's annoying younger sister. She is an ardent admirer of Frida Kahlo and frequently attempts to be an activist. She is remarkably intelligent and enjoys reading, although she is a constant annoyance to her older brother. In a May 2009 strip that quotes from the Wikipedia article, Gracie declared that she wrote that article for Wikipedia in Cinco de Mayo. * Sergi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uclick
Uclick LLC was an American corporation (a division of Andrews McMeel Universal) selling "digital entertainment content" for the desktop, the web and mobile phones. Uclick operated several consumer websites, including the comic strip and editorial cartoon site GoComics and the puzzle and casual game sites ThePuzzleSociety.com and UclickGames.com. Uclick content included comic strips, editorial cartoons, puzzles, casual games, manga, comic books, syndicated columns, photography and illustration. Uclick content was distributed online through consumer and news web portals such as Yahoo!, MSNBC.com, New York Times, washingtonpost.com, CNN, USA TODAY, and AOL. Comic strip and cartoon content from Uclick was available online and on mobile phones through the company's website, Uclick.com. In July 2009, Uclick merged with Andrews McMeel's Universal Press Syndicate (UPS) to form Universal Uclick (now known as Andrews McMeel Syndication). History Universal New Media was formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloom County
''Bloom County'' is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk. On July 12, 2015, Breathed started drawing ''Bloom County'' again. The first revived strip was published via Facebook on July 13, 2015. Breathed won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1987, making him only the second (and so far last) comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer; the other was Garry Trudeau, whose work has influenced Breathed. Publication history and production ''Bloom County'' originated from a comic strip known as '' The Academia Waltz'', which Breathed produced for '' The Daily Texan'', the student newspaper of the University of Texas. The comic strip attracted the notice of the editors of ''The Washington Post'', who recruit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boondocks (comic Strip)
''The Boondocks'' was a daily print syndication, syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006. Created by McGruder in 1996 for Hitlist.com, an early online music website, it was printed in the monthly hip hop culture, hip hop magazine ''The Source (magazine), The Source'' in 1997. As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999. A popular and controversial strip, ''The Boondocks'' Satire, satirizes African-American culture and Politics of the United States, American politics as seen through the eyes of young African Americans, African American radical Huey Freeman. McGruder's syndicate said it was among the biggest launches the company ever had. Publication history The strip debuted on Hitlist.com on February 8, 1996. It later appeared in the University of Maryland newspaper ''The Diamondback'' under editor-in-chief Jayson Blair on December 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Nate
''Big Nate'' (stylized as ''big NATE'' in the List of Big Nate collections, comic collections and ''BiG NATE'' in the Big Nate#Book series, books) is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Lincoln Peirce, syndicated since January 6, 1991. The strip follows sixth-grader Nate Wright, alongside his family, friends, and foes. The strip's success led to a media franchise, consisting of two series of children's books by Lincoln Peirce – the eponymous novel series and the ''Little Big Nate'' board books – a video game hosted on ''Poptropica'' since 2009, and an Big Nate (TV series), animated television series, which premiered on Paramount+ in 2022. Synopsis ''Big Nate'' follows the adventures and misadventures of Nate Wright, an incompetent, spirited, and rebellious sixth grade, sixth-grader. He has three best friends (Francis, Teddy, and Dee Dee) who occasionally get in trouble with him. Other characters include a variety of teachers and students at Nate’s school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrews McMeel Universal
Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU) is an American media corporation based in Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1970 by Jim Andrews and John McMeel as Universal Press Syndicate and was renamed in 1997 to AMU to reflect the diversification that had taken place since its founding. It has the subdivisions: * Andrews McMeel Syndication, which includes GoComics * Andrews McMeel Publishing (established 1973) * AMUSE (Andrews McMeel Universal Syndicated Entertainment) Headquarters The company headquarters is located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri in the historic Boley Building. The six-story steel frame building was constructed in 1909 and was designed in the Art-Nouveau style by architect Louis Curtiss. The building is one of the world's first metal-and-glass curtain-wall buildings and the first to use rolled-steel columns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckles (comics)
''Buckles'' is a comic strip by David Gilbert about the misadventures of an anthropomorphic naïve dog. ''Buckles'' debuted on March 25, 1996, and ended on March 21, 2021. According to King Features Syndicate: "More of an only child with canine instincts than he is the family pet. Buckles can display all the charm...of a small child discovering how to find his way through life." GoComics began a repeat run of the strip effective May 10, 2021. Characters Buckles Buckles is a guileless and innocent dog, and is the strip's protagonist. He was born on March 25, 1996 (The same day the first strip was published). Most of the storylines of the Buckles comic series involve moral issues within Buckles himself. Of course since he is a puppy, issues are more to the point of whether or not to get in the garbage, roll in the mud, or chew up a valuable piece of clothing. Buckles also fears cats. One of Buckles' favorite things to chew up seems to be the remote control to the TV, ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Crackers (comic)
''Animal Crackers'' is the title of several syndicated newspaper comics over the years. The first was a 1930 comic strip signed by an artist known simply as Lane. The second ''Animal Crackers'' was a cartoon panel by Dick Ryan and Warren Goodrich (1913–2002) that was published intermittently from 1936 through 1952. In some papers it ran as ''Animal Krackers''. The third began on April 1, 1968 and continues today. It is distributed by Tribune Content Agency, and appears on Andrews McMeel Universal's GoComics, which is run by Universal Uclick. ''Animal Crackers'' (1936–1952) ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' described ''Animal Crackers'' as a "snappy little one-frame strip hatfeatured a variety of animal life dealing with various silly situations of a human nature" and as a comic panel "which went on to acclaim in syndication."Adolphson, Sue (August 23, 1992). "The Golden Boy: The Chronicle's Little Man Turns 50". '' The San Francisco Chronicle''. Sunday Datebook, Pg. 18 The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
