The strip was intended to represent high-quality competition to "Mary Worth," the leading soap opera strip of the time.
The strip is in about 1,800 newspapers, which, Mr. Walker said, makes Beetle Bailey the fourth most widely distributed comic strip of all time, after Blondie, Peanuts and Garfield.
It's entertainingly chatty and amazingly detailed, as in the story of the accident by which the brothers got their stage names — a poker game in Rockford, Illinois, with a vaudevillian named Art Fisher, who coined the names in the style of "Knocko the Monk," a popular comic strip of the time — and the peppy, full-voiced tone is that of a full-steam-ahead raconteur telling war stories.
That's why most syndicates require you to submit most of your strips ahead of time.
As I'm working on it, I'll read through the strip hundreds of times.
I've read each strip dozens of times, and each panel makes me feel good.
Tear off a strip of tape about two times longer than your whole fingernail.
Another academic critic, Philip Sandifer, using the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, identifies the strip's depiction of time within Calvin's real and imaginary worlds as a manifestation of the Lacanian concepts of the Imaginary, the Real, and the Symbolic.
January 20 , 1894Kankakee, Illinois May 9, 1968 La Jolla, California Harold Gray, in full Harold Lincoln Gray (born January 20 , 1894 Kankakee, Illinois, U.S. died May 9 , 1968 La Jolla, California), American cartoonist and creator of "Little Orphan Annie," one of the most popular comic strips of all time.
If you're reading, Mr. Watterson, please let new generations of fans learn about one of the best comic strips of all time.
