Famous Comic Strips 2
Created by Cathy Guisewhite, this is one of the first popular comic strips to star a female character as she tackles the everyday problems that many women face.
What is Cathy?
One of the first well-known lesbian comic strip creators, she would go on to become an award-winning graphic novelist with her book Fun Home.
Who is Alison Bechdel?
Although popularly known as manga today, when Western-style cartooning arrived in Japan in the 1860s, it was known by this name.
Daily strips that appear in newspapers for most of the week are in black and white, but these comics, which only appear once a week, appear in full color.
What are the Sundays (or, Sunday strips)?
This comic strip artist, whose Yellow Kid and Buster Brown were stolen by other newspapers, was an early advocate for creator's rights in comics.
Who was Richard F. Outcault?
Shortly after Watterson's run on Calvin and Hobbes concluded, Aaron McGruder became a rising star in comic strips with this often-controversial and highly political strip that centered on a black family, which would later be adapted into a successful animated TV series.
What is The Boondocks?
During his lifetime, Krazy Kat creator George Herriman had to hide this about his identity.
What is his race, or the fact that he was a mixed-race black man?
The term manga was originally used as a verb to describe this.
What is "sketching"?
A multi-panel comic in the paper is known as a strip, but a single-panel comic, which usually is used to satirize politics, is known as this.
What is a cartoon (or, political cartoon)?
Originally famous for his comic strip Life in Hell, this creator would go on to male the cartoon shows The Simpson and Futurama.
Who is Matt Groening?
This Winsor McCay strip, which explores the nightmares people get after eating too much cheese, is often said to be the adult version of Little Nemo in Slumberland.
What is Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend?
The first black woman in comics, who created Torchy Brown in 1937, a character who would go on to become the first realistic black doll produced in America in 1947.
Who was Jackie Ormes?
What is yon-koma manga?
Often abbreviated as SFX, these are words that appear in comics to indicate noises, like BOOM! or ZZZ.
What are sound effects?
Created by Rudolph Dirks in 1897, this became the longest-running comic strip in history, lasting until 2006.
What is The Katzenjammer Kids?
The "This is fine" meme, in which an anthropomorphic dog sits at his kitchen table as his house burns down around him, originally appeared in this webcomic by KC Green.
What is Gunshow?
He created the 1990s alternative comic strip series Maakies, about two sailors, a monkey and a crow, who are constantly getting drunk and into trouble.
Who is Tony Millionaire?
The British ambassador to Japan who started the magazine Japan Punch, based on the famous Punch magazine from the UK, thus introducing the Japanese to Western-style caricature and cartooning.
Who was Charles Wirgman?
The term for the style of drawing that exaggerates characters' features, often for comic effect.
What is caricature?
Buster Brown was the first comic strip to become a mascot for a non-comics-related company, a shoe company that famously made Buster Browns for boys and this kind of shoe for girls, named after Buster's girlfriend.
What are Mary Janes?
Bkub Okawa's recent 4-panel comic strip series starring two rude and wild schoolgirls.
What is Pop Team Epic?
In 2019, this Houston native and graduate from Bellaire High, won the Ignatz Award for best webcomic for her series Check Please!
Who is Ngozi Ukazu?
The 4-panel comic strip by Sensha Yoshida that translates to It's Infectious., which is often credited with turning the format toward absurdity in the 1980s.
What is Utsurun Desu.?
A string of symbols, like #^%&! or @&$*!, which replace profanities in many comics.
What is a grawlix?
The first comic book to ever be published in America, way back in 1843, created by Swiss comics pioneer Rodolphe Topffer.
What is The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck?