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.

In the UK and the rest of Europe, comic strips are also serialized in comic book magazines, with a strip's story sometimes continuing over three pages or more.

Most comic strip characters do not age throughout the strip's life, but in some strips, like Lynn Johnston's award-winning For Better or For Worse, the characters age as the years pass.

The comic strip's popular success is attributable to its workplace setting and themes, which are familiar to a large and appreciative audience ; Adams said that switching the setting from Dilbert's home to his office was " when the strip really started to take off.

Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

The New Addams Family provided a cross between the original television show's mansion and the movie / comic strip's mansion.

Another Dondi comic book, with stories closer to the strip's style, was published as Dell Four Color # 1276.

A musical version of the popular comic strip Li ' l Abner was first planned in 1946, with the book to be written by the comic strip's author, Al Capp.

And Dagwood, who previously had been cast in the role of straight man to Blondie's comic antics, took over as the comic strip's clown.

Separately or together, Flip and The Imp would provide much of the strip's comic relief.

The " Dust Puppy " from the web comic User Friendly is also commonly associated with Hackers, Internet culture, and free and open source communities due to the strip's coverage of those topics.

This was the strip's eighth series in the comic.

Because of this, Rat is often critical of the comic strip's style and artwork as well as the other characters in the strip and many other living things.

The strip's comic exaggerations include Connie having to excavate a tunnel to travel through the mess in Jeremy's bedroom, and Jeremy eating an entire three-person dinner by himself without knowing it was supposed to be for his family.

The comic strip's recurring character Gina would not be introduced into the strip until several years after the TV series ' production, and does not appear in the TV show at all.

Gordon bore a closer resemblance to the comic strip's Mr. Wilson than Kearns did.

Metcalfe later drew the strip full-time, gradually bringing the strip's artwork more in line with his early 1990s work, until his sudden departure from the comic in 2007, after which the Beano started running re-prints of the strips drawn by David Parkins.

Schulz made Rerun into a main character in the strip's final years, and much of the focus during this time is from Rerun's perspective ; Schulz admitted in a 1997 interview with Gary Groth that the character virtually " took over " the comic.

However, the comic strip's content does not lend support to this conclusion.

It was also recently discovered that Repugsive is in fact a woman, and not a man as we had all been led to believe over the comic strip's history.

At the strip's end, Steve Dallas came out as gay, and eloped to California with Mark Slackmeyer from the comic strip Doonesbury.

* 1953 – James Vance, American comic book writer, author and playwright

Bill Holbrook ( born 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and webcomic writer and artist, best known for his syndicated comic strip On the Fastrack.

Goldoni, a prolific writer, is best known for his comic play Servant of Two Masters, which has been translated and adapted internationally numerous times.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

In 2011 Avatar Press began publishing a comic book Caligula written by horror comic writer David Lapham.

This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.

Barks transitioned his skills as an animator artist and storyman into those of a comic artist and writer, notably in his longer adventure tales.

He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book ( issues 6 through 25 ).

* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.

In 1978, Jones ' wife Dorothy died ; three years later, he married Marian Dern, the writer of the comic strip Rick O ' Shay.

* 1911 – Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer ( d. 1991 )

* 1953 – J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer

* 1958 – Carlo J. Caparas, Filipino comic strip creator / writer

* 1962 – Joe Quesada, American comic book writer

* 1975 – Matt Fraction, American comic book writer

* 1969 – Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.

* 1948 – Doug Moench, American comic book writer

* 1954 – Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor

* 1968 – Warren Ellis, British comic writer

: The mock epic ( A. J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic ) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

* 2000 – Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer ( b. 1926 )

* 1957 – Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer