** The comic strip FoxTrot makes its first appearance in US newspapers.

Roger Fox ( in the comic strip FoxTrot ) gets a speeding ticket, and mentions that he will try to come up with a Perry Mason routine to get out of it.

* In Bill Amend's popular comic strip FoxTrot, Jason Fox mentions observing the M13 Globular Cluster

FoxTrot is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Amend.

In a 1990 article which reviewed various then-current comic strips, Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly gave FoxTrot a " B " rating, calling it " the most idiosyncratic comic strip to debut since Calvin and Hobbes " and describing the Fox family as " believable.

This concept has been parodied by other comic strips, including Pearls Before Swine, For Better or For Worse, FoxTrot, Mother Goose and Grimm, and Marvin.

* The Fox family of the comic strip FoxTrot

In a FoxTrot strip, the characters are discussing how many comic strips that day have jokes based on golf.

* FoxTrot, syndicated comic strip by Bill Amend

* Roger Fox, a character from the comic FoxTrot

An early FoxTrot comic has Jason presenting his dinosaur movie in Sensurround.

On April 1, 2005, Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine, Bill Amend of FoxTrot, and Darby Conley of Get Fuzzy all ran the same comic dialogue in their respective strips, but with their own core characters saying the lines.

FoxTrot was first published on April 10, 1988, under the syndication of Universal Press Syndicate.

A 2008 FoxTrot strip portrays " Brown Eyed Girl ", along with " Eye of the Tiger " by Survivor and " My Eyes Adored You " by The Four Seasons as music played on the music site " EyeTunes "

* Jason Fox of FoxTrot has a fear of girls and often mentions getting cooties after being touched by any girl in his class.

* A few years after the Switcheroo, Bill Amend ( FoxTrot ) made a Sunday strip in which Jason Fox, Andy Fox, Roger Fox, and Peter Fox changed looks: Baby Blues, Calvin and Hobbes ( which had ended roughly 15 months before the original Switcheroonie ), and Doonesbury were three of several parodied strips.

Occasionally, humor is derived from reverse psychology backfiring, as in a FoxTrot strip when Jason, faced with punishment, begs his mom to take away his computer rather than make him eat a whole box of Ho-Hos, and she agrees.

* FoxTrot was drawn by Brad and Guy Gilchrist ( Nancy ): Jason ( as Luke Skywalker ) is fighting Darth Vader who reveals himself to be Nancy.

* Zippy the Pinhead was drawn by Bill Amend ( FoxTrot ): Zippy & Griffy have Jason & Peter's respective faces and are accompanied by Quincy the Iguana.

As of December 2006, FoxTrot was carried by more than 1, 200 newspapers worldwide.

On December 5, 2006, Universal Press Syndicate issued a press release stating that Amend's strip, FoxTrot, would turn into a Sunday-only strip.

Early in the strip's run, FoxTrot often dealt with societal issues such as drug abuse.

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" There is another FoxTrot strip in which, after being bombarded by Jason's suggestions, the newspapers give Mary Worth vampire fangs.

Since the comic centers around a community of role-playing gamers, the characters are seen playing many games that are analogues of real-world games ( some of which were then published as real-world games ).

** The Sandman ( Vertigo ), a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and centers around the protagonist, Dream / Morpheus, the immortal anthropomorphic personification of dreams

Shawn's comic pantomime Danse Americaine, for example, centers on a soft-shoe dancer acting as a baseball player.

The comic most often centers on her antics, getting through childhood and trying to understand the world with her limited knowledge of how it works.

The story centers on Opus the Penguin ( who was at the time one of the main characters in Breathed's comic strip Outland ).

The work is often called " tragicomic " for its combination of a " serious " high plot centering on the princes and Duke Basilius's household and a " comic " low plot that centers on the steward Dametas's family.

The telenovela was based upon an adaptation of Yolanda Vargas Dulché's comic book of the same name, which centers around a young gypsy and her caravan.

After all, the henpecked husband with his shrewish wife is a comic figure of long standing, in literature and on the stage, as Dr. Schillinger points out.

), a movie based on a character from the Mexican comic Los Supermachos of Mexican cartoonist Rius, who co-wrote the screenplay.

The comic is based on thorough research on the biographies and correspondence between Babbage and Lovelace, which is then twisted for humorous effect.

During this tour he wrote three new comic operas and he also collaborated with Giacomo Rust on one opera, Il Talismano ( The Talismand ).

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

Besides his use of the comic strip to voice his opinions and display his humor, Capp was a popular guest speaker at universities, and on radio and television.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

Other movies have also used the term Bronx for comic effect, such as " Bronx ", the character on the Disney animated series Gargoyles.

Watterson is known for his views on licensing and comic syndication, as well as for his reclusive nature.

In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a self-contained story, often concise and relying on imagery, rather than description, which can be tragic, historical, romantic or comic.

The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly.

This usually consists of three new comic strips being run for a number of weeks and the readers can vote on which strips they prefer and the one that receives the most votes stays in the Beano.

A copy of this first issue sold for £ 12, 100 on 16 March 2004, which was at the time thought to be the highest price ever paid for a British comic at an auction.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

Consequently, Bixby starred in the pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Marvel comic book characters.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

Chaplin also diverged from conventional slapstick by slowing down his pace and exhausting each scene of its comic potential, and focusing more on developing the viewer's relationship to the characters.

Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

In 1865, the German painter, author and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created the strip Max and Moritz, about two trouble-making boys, which had a direct influence on the American comic strip.

Russell Patterson and Carolyn Wells ' New Adventures of Flossy Frills ( January 26, 1941 ), an example of comic strips on Sunday magazine s.

Many underground artists, notably Vaughn Bode, Dan O ' Neill, Gilbert Shelton and Art Spiegelman went on to draw comic strips for magazines such as Playboy, National Lampoon and Pete Millar's CARtoons.