The strip was the first to regularly introduce characters and story lines having nothing to do with the nominal stars of the strip.

Li ' l Abner was also the subject of the first book-length, scholarly assessment of an American comic strip ever published.

In 2008, he provided a foreword for the first book collection of Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac comic strip.

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

The first panel of the Dennis & Gnasher strip also appeared on the cover, like from 1972-2008, but the " This Week In Beanotown " feature still appeared across the bottom.

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

The first strip to feature aging characters was Gasoline Alley.

# Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons — April 16, 1989 ( first strip ) to October 21, 1989

On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught posting a comic strip which " compares managers to drunken lemurs ".

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

As Doonesbury, the strip debuted as a daily strip in about two dozen newspapers on October 26, 1970 – the first strip from Universal Press Syndicate.

In May 1975, the strip won Trudeau a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the first strip cartoon to be so honored.

* In 1975, the strip won Trudeau a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the first strip cartoon to be so honored.

His first published comic ( besides the spot illustrations in his grade school and high school newspapers ) was a comic strip featuring his own character, Lancelot Pertwillaby entitled “ The Pertwillaby Papers ”.

Congress, for its part, at first not really wanting any part of the affair, effectively voted to strip and then abandon the forts.

Starring Alberto Sordi in the title role, the film is a revised version of a treatment first written by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1949 and based on the fotoromanzi, the photographed cartoon strip romances popular in Italy at the time.

It was implied that Jon is inspired by a drawing of Davis himself when he was first drawing the strip.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie were created by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro, and first appeared in a newspaper comic strip on October 17, 1937.

Iqaluit's first permanent inhabitant was Nakasuk, an Inuk guide who helped American Air Force planners to choose a site with a large flat area suitable for a landing strip.

For ten minutes they ran beneath the squall, raising their arms and, for the first time, shouting and capering.

The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;

We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.

With the first reports, Russell's horse wheeled to the right and ran towards the buildings while Cook, followed by a hail of bullets, raced towards the arroyo of Salyer's Canyon immediately in front of him, just reaching it as his horse fell.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

AIX PS / 2, first released in 1989, ran on IBM PS / 2 personal computers with Intel 386 and compatible processors.

The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.

The first was Avenue X which opened on 28 January 1994 and ran for 77 performances.

It first appeared in 1942, and proved so popular that it ran intermittently over the next 35 years.

Herodotus suggests that this was the first time a Greek army ran into battle in this way ; this was probably because it was the first time that a Greek army had faced an enemy composed primarily of missile troops.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

" On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran for 21 years.

The first compilers for COBOL were subsequently implemented in 1960, and on December 6 and 7, essentially the same COBOL program ran on two different computer makes, an RCA computer and a Remington-Rand Univac computer, demonstrating that compatibility could be achieved.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

In order to test their new circuitry, they first built a small 18-bit machine known as TX-0 which first ran in 1956.

At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Rudolf Diesel's prime model, a single iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time.

According to historical accounts from the first century AD, seven branches of the Nile once ran through the delta.

The longest established festival is the Edinburgh International Festival, which first ran in 1947.

EDSAC ran its first programs on 6 May 1949, when it calculated a table of squares and a list of prime numbers.

Sniffin ' Glue ran for 12 photocopied issues ; the first issue was produced by Perry immediately following ( and in response to ) the London debut of The Ramones on July 4, 1976.

The first association football fanzine is regarded as being Foul, a publication that ran between 1972 and 1976.

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.