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.

The comic strip's writer was uncredited, but some of the gags certainly were lifted from the hit radio show.

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 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.

The strip's dialogue is surreal and often peppered with obscure allusions ; illustrative quotes include " HERE ON RUM ISLAND WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN RUM!

This marked the beginning of the strip's " Space Period ," that saw Tracy and friends having adventures on the Moon and meeting Moon Maid, the daughter of the leader of a race of humanoid people living in " Moon Valley " in 1964.

The strip was for a period the focus of a debate concerning plagiarism, as the strip's followers voiced their concern over an advertising campaign by the Danish office of advertising agency DDB promoting the Volkswagen Golf GT, having appropriated its joke from a Wulffmorgenthaler strip.

The character is referred to as a colonel in the strip's title but the character having been in the army is rarely mentioned in the strip's itself.

In one installment of the popular comic strip Get Fuzzy, the strip's protagonist, Bucky Katt, attempts to travel to Anaheim to eat the Rally Monkey after seeing it on television, as part of a running gag focused on Katt's irrational desire to eat a monkey.

Later stories, in which Gould veered into space opera and extraterrestrial contacts, mitigated somewhat against the strip's being recognized for its early use of realistic police procedure, but any examination of the Tracy strip from its beginnings in 1931 through the 1950s makes Gould's status as a pioneer in the police procedural sub-genre clear.

Both characters were drawn with their eye pupils visible through their glasses during the strip's early years, but their glasses were later drawn so that they are opaque to readers.

For the most part, the strip's characters respond to death with indifference or coldness, as much of the plot revolves around what Sherman and Megan are going to eat for dinner.

" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.

Neither the strip's shifting political leanings nor the slide of its final few years had any bearing on its status as a classic, and in 1995 Li ' l Abner was recognized as such by the United States Postal Service.

The World published another, but new, Hogan's Alley cartoon less than a month later, and this was followed by the strip's first color printing on 5 May 1895.

This seminal communications device, worn as a wristwatch by Tracy and members of the police force, became one of the strip's most immediately recognizable icons, and can be thought of as a precursor to later technological developments, such as cellular phones and later watch phones.

Gould later explained this seemingly improbable turn of events by stating that, within the strip's reality, Tracy was offered the job first but had declined, personally recommending Patton instead.

Depictions of family life alternated, and intertwined, with the shadowy crime drama that was always the strip's mainstay, such as the kidnapping of Bonnie Braids by fugitive Crewy Lou, or Junior's girlfriend, Model, being accidentally shot and killed by her brother, a wanted murderer of a police officer.

The stupidity of the humans is countered by Sparky, a fast-talking penguin ( although the strip occasionally postulates he is actually an auk ) with a red visor, who provides much of the strip's political commentary.

The strip's story continuity was written by Walter B. Gibson, with plot lines adapted from the Shadow pulps, and the strip was illustrated by Vernon Greene.

The consequence was that Patpong lost a great deal of its vibrancy as a go-go bar and sexual services strip, becoming crowded with tourist shoppers who were at best bemused by the nightlife and put a big damper on the strip's power to excite and amuse.

The strip's characters, relations and situations grew organically and undeliberately as the strip went on, encouraged by Herriman's officemates.

Read daily by scores of millions of people, the strip's characters and humor had a powerful cultural impact.

Li ' l Abner: A Study in American Satire by Arthur Asa Berger ( Twayne, 1969 ) contained serious analyses of Capp's narrative technique, his use of dialogue, self-caricature and grotesquerie, the strip's overall place in American satire, and the significance of social criticism and the graphic image.

" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.

* Neither the strip's shifting political leanings nor the slide of its final few years had any bearing on its status as a classic — and in 1995, Li ' l Abner was recognized as such by the United States Postal Service.

* Send for Kelly ( 1960s-91 )- A secret agent called Nick Kelly, helped by assistant Cedric for most of the strip's run.

Onstad has published several books: nine anthologies of Achewood comics ; a humorous cookbook featuring recipes purportedly invented by the strip's characters ; A Wonderful Tale, a book written from the perspective of a character from the strip ; and that same character's second novel A Hilarious Comedy.

" Many readers were offended by what they perceived as the strip's assertion that a bisexual chooses to be attracted to both sexes, taking as a comment on the political aspects of homosexuality, though Pastis has denied any political meaning one way or the other.

" An " actual " Hamster Huey book was written by Mabel Barr in 2004, years after the strip's conclusion.