Dotty Dripple
Dotty Dripple | |
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Author(s) | (1944 only) (1944–1974) |
Illustrator(s) | (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 an American gag-a-day comic strip, originally started by & on June 26, 1944, but was taken over by 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 was a domestic comedy strip, heavily modeled on Blondie, and ended on June 9, 1974.[2][3][4]
References[]
- ^ 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 (1964) (excerpt at comics.gearlive.com)
External links[]
- Dotty Dripple at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016.
Categories:
- 1944 comics debuts
- 1974 comics endings
- American comics characters
- American comic strips
- Comics about married people
- Comics about women
- Comics characters introduced in 1944
- Female characters in comics
- Gag-a-day comics
- Comic strip stubs