Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

The Life and Hard Times of Little Orphan Annie, introduction by Al Capp ( 1970 ) Arlington House

Little Orphan Annie ( 1924-2010 )

Early Sunday strips, such as Thimble Theatre and Little Orphan Annie, filled an entire newspaper page, a format known to collectors as full page.

Examples include The Phantom, Prince Valiant, Dick Tracy, Mary Worth, Modesty Blaise, Little Orphan Annie, and Tarzan.

This ranged from the conservative slant of Little Orphan Annie to the unabashed liberalism of Doonesbury.

Examples include Little Orphan Annie ( drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy ), and Terry and The Pirates, started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder.

More members joined by mid-May 1946, including Harold Gray ( Little Orphan Annie ) and the Society ’ s first animator, Paul Terry, followed in the summer by letterer Frank Engli, Bela Zaboly ( Popeye ), Al Capp ( Li ’ l Abner ) and Ray Bailey ( Bruce Gentry ).

In addition, they produced a series of licensed character crayon products such as Popeye, Mother Goose, Howdy Doody, Little Lulu, Moon Mullins, Lone Ranger, Little Orphan Annie and Sergeant William Preston.

The young cousins added features such as advice columns and homegrown comic strips like Little Orphan Annie and Moon Mullins, then turned to " crusades ", with their first success coming with the ouster of the Republican political boss of Illinois, Sen. William Lorimer.

Other shows were adapted from comic strips, such as Blondie, Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, The Gumps, Li ' l Abner, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye the Sailor, Red Ryder, Reg ' lar Fellers, Terry and the Pirates and Tillie the Toiler.

Union County is the birthplace of Thomas Warren Bennett, Mary Alice Smith ( Little Orphan Annie ), Cincinnatus Hiner " Joaquin " Miller, Jay Hall Connaway, Major General Frederick Leroy Martin and Ambrose Burnside.

( 1945 ), The Cat Concerto ( 1946 ), The Little Orphan ( 1948 ), The Two Mouseketeers ( 1951 ), and Johann Mouse ( 1952 ).

Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray ( 1894 – 1968 ) and syndicated by Tribune Media Services.

Little Orphan Annie displays literary kinship with the picaresque novel in its seemingly endless string of episodic and unrelated adventures in the life of a character who wanders vagabondlike through a corrupt world.

Gray's strips were consistently rejected by Patterson, but Little Orphan Annie was finally accepted and debuted in a test run on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News, a Tribune owned tabloid.

A Fortune popularity poll in 1937 indicated Little Orphan Annie ranked number one and ahead of Popeye, Dick Tracy, Bringing Up Father, The Gumps, Blondie, Moon Mullins, Joe Palooka, Li ' l Abner and Tillie the Toiler.

The Herald Dispatch of Huntington, West Virginia stopped running Little Orphan Annie, printing a front page editorial rebuking Gray's politics.

First Little Orphan Annie Sunday strip | Sunday page ( November 2, 1924 )

Editor & Publisher wrote, " Harold Gray, Little Orphan Annie creator, has done one of the biggest jobs to date for the scrap drive.

Leonard Starr's Little Orphan Annie

Little Orphan Annie was adapted to a 15-minute radio show that debuted on WGN Chicago in 1930 and went national on NBC's Blue Network beginning April 6, 1931..

Productions of the 1980s and 1990s included The Apple, Xanadu, Annie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Victor Victoria, Footloose, Little Shop of Horrors, Absolute Beginners, Evita and Everyone Says I Love You.

Because of this, a new method was developed to survey an audience – this was dubbed the Little Annie Project.

However, because of profound methodological disagreements with Lazarsfeld over the use of techniques like listener surveys and " Little Annie " ( Adorno thought both grossly simplified and ignored the degree to which expressed tastes were the result of commercial marketing ), Adorno left the project in 1941.

Some of the most prominent names include The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Bobby " Werner " Strete, Mod Fun, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Phil Lynott, Henri Chopin, John Cale, Édith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Alejandro Escovedo, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Walker, Canned Heat, Sid Vicious, Vivian Stanshall, Richard Hell, Jobriath Boone, Little Annie, Rufus Wainwright, Lance Loud, Abdullah Ibrahim / Sathima Bea Benjamin / Jean Grae, Vasant Rai, Jacques Labouchere, and Leonard Cohen.

* Cattle Annie and Little Britches ( 1981 )

* Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People ( 1948 ) ISBN 1-125-58757-1

The strip took its name from the 1885 poem " Little Orphant Annie " by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News.

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

This has been studied in psychology as fear conditioning, beginning with John B. Watson's Little Albert experiment in 1920, which was inspired after observing a child with an irrational fear of dogs.

In children's literature, Maurice Sendak has said that this strip inspired his book In the Night Kitchen, and William Joyce included several elements from Little Nemo in his children's book Santa Calls, including appearances by Flip and the walking bed.

Mascagni had a quarrel regarding the rights of Louise de la Ramée's Two Little Wooden Shoes ( I due Zoccoletti ), that inspired both Puccini and Mascagni.

Queen also released the very successful single " Crazy Little Thing Called Love ", a rockabilly inspired song done in the style of Elvis Presley.

The fennecs he had known in these two contexts are considered to have inspired the fox character in Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

Little Richard proclaimed himself the " king of rockin ' and rollin ', rhythm and blues soulin '", because his music embodied elements of all three, and because he inspired artists in all three genres.

Betty was inspired to become an actress after seeing Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1921 ) and Mary Pickford in Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1921 ), and changed the spelling of her name to " Bette " after Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette.

Some of the episodes that focus on Santa's Little Helper have been inspired by popular culture or real experiences that staff members of the show have gone through.

She inspired the character Dolores González in Raymond Chandler's novel " The Little Sister " ( 1949 ).

François Truffaut was inspired by Little Fugitives spontaneous production style when he created The 400 Blows ( 1959 ), saying long afterwards: “ Our New Wave would never have come into being if it hadn ’ t been for the young American Morris Engel, who showed us the way to independent production with fine movie .”

'" The song was inspired by Little Richard, who combined " Kansas City " with his own composition, " Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey!

Berk says that the experiment with Little Albert inspired Watson ’ s emphasis on environmental factors.

Issue # 3 " Misty Magic Land "-according to designer Todd Klein, " inspired by the famously surreal newspaper strip Little Nemo In Slumberland by Winsor McCay "

At Springfield Downs, Homer, inspired by an announcement about a last-minute entry named Santa's Little Helper, bet all his money on the 99-1 long shot.

In the 1980s, Boøwy inspired alternative rock bands like Shonen Knife, Boredoms, The Pillows and Tama & Little Creatures as well as more mainstream bands as Glay.

His political interests were inspired by his father, Charles Clinton, who was an English immigrant to Little Britain, New York and a member of the New York colonial assembly.

The character Little Dorrit ( Amy ) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper ( née Mitton ): Charles Dickens sometimes visited her and her family ; they lived in The Cedars, a house on Hatton Road west of London ; its site is now under the east end of London Heathrow Airport.

* Art of the States: Bright Days of Little Sunlight musical work inspired by the mountains near Gausdal

The success of Grey's The Lone Star Ranger ( a novel later turned into a 1930 film ) and King of the Royal Mounted ( popular as a series of Big Little Books and comics, later turned into a 1936 film ), inspired two radio series by George Trendle ( WXYZ, Detroit ).

* For its " coming of age " significance, this age has inspired the titles of many songs, such as " Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen ", " You're Sixteen ", " Sweet Sixteen ", " U16 Girls " " Sweet Little Sixteen " and " Sixteen Candles ".

A new community was founded at Little Gidding in the 1970s, inspired by the example of Ferrar, calling itself the Community of Christ the Sower, but that community ended in 1998.