Dotty Dripple was an American gag-a-day comic strip, originally started by Jeff Keate & Jim McMenamy on June 26, 1944, but was taken over by Buford Tune on October 16, and continued for the next thirty years.[1] The strip was distributed by Publishers Syndicate and also appeared in comic book form.
| Dotty Dripple | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Jeff Keate (1944 only) Buford Tune (1944–1974) |
| Illustrator(s) | Jim McMenamy (1944 only) |
| Current status/schedule | Concluded |
| Launch date | June 26, 1944 |
| End date | June 9, 1974 |
| Syndicate(s) | Publishers Syndicate (1944–1967) Publishers-Hall Syndicate (1967–1974) |
| Genre(s) | humor |
Dotty Dripple was a domestic comedy strip, heavily modeled on Blondie, and ended on June 9, 1974.[2][3][4]
References
edit- ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 134. ISBN 9780472117567.
- ^ Thompson, Maggie. Comics Shop (2010)
- ^ Phelps, Donald. Reading the Funnies: Essays on Comic Strips, pp. 145, 247 (2001) (referring to Dotty Dripple as among those strips which were "pillaging" Blondie)
- ^ These Top Cartoonists Tell How They Create America’s Favorite Comics Archived 2010-03-12 at the Wayback Machine (1964) (excerpt at comics.gearlive.com)
External links
edit- Dotty Dripple at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016.
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