The strip's humor occasionally satirizes modern American culture, and deliberate anachronisms are rampant.

" The strip's humor style — quite contemporary, in contrast to its medieval setting — ranges from broad and low to pure black ", according to Don Markstein's Toonopedia.

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

His liberal responses are typically the source of the strip's humor.

The strip's humor is aimed more at late teens and adults, with frequent lampoons of famous pop culture icons, such as Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, Cher, Elvis Presley, Barry Bonds, Dick Clark and Pamela Anderson, to name just a few.

Much of the strip's humor came from Darling's quirks and occasional displays of ignorance ; in one strip, he interviews musician Prince, asking him " Exactly which country are you a prince of?

The strip's popularity grew from an original eight papers, to ultimately more than 900.

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 strip's subject matter in the early months varied from the pattern it later settled into.

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

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.

This contained a history and reprints from the first 30 years of the strip's life.

As the strip progresses, Flip evolves from Nemo's nemesis to his tolerated companion to his close friend, and becomes one of the strip's livelier ( albeit still troublesome ) characters.

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.

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.

She married Llewellyn at the end of the strip's run in a storyarc from November – December 2008.

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.

Subject matter ranges from the main characters ' adventures ( both present and past ) to contemporary commentary to political statements, and often makes its points in scathing and offensive fashion: for instance, in the debut strip, the strip's main character offers his opinion of an ex-girlfriend by giving her a coat hanger as a baby shower present ( alluding to its use as an instrument in back-street abortions ).

Former cadet Dolman is notable not for anything he has done yet, but for the potential development of his character in the strip's future, as he is cloned from Dredd's DNA and effectively a member of his family.

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.

One of the strip's earlier characters dating from 1951, Violet was seen less frequently after other female characters such as Lucy, Sally and Peppermint Patty were introduced and developed in the 1950s and 60s.

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

The first few strips were drawn by Chris Donald, and most of the subsequent ones were done by Simon Donald until his departure from the comic, after which Paul Palmer became the strip's artist.

Both Kirkman and Scott have drawn from their own parenting experiences as a source for the strip's content.

Sometimes balloons can be influenced by the strip's environment: in the Italian strip Sturmtruppen they freeze and crack when the temperature is very low, or an Archie comic strip where two men from Alaska remarked on how cold it was, by saying the speech balloons froze as they said them, and the words had to be thawed out to be heard.

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

Stereotypical gender differences between Arlo and Janis provide a lot of the strip's content.

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.

The strip's circulation in the United States was erratic, in part because of the occasional nude scenes, which were much less acceptable in the U. S. than elsewhere, resulting in a censored version of the strip being circulated.

However, Trevor Metcalfe drew several strips during 2003 and 2004, in which Ivy was given a noticeably more childlike and less malicious personality, although again the strip's style was based on Nixon's.

In a September 2009 storyline which many readers also interpreted as Batiuk's addressing of the strip's latter-day bleakness, a group of parents protested a school production of Wit because the themes of cancer and death offended them.

Early in the strip's run, Winslow had a crush on Condoleezza Rice, even writing a poem about her ( which Carmen initially misunderstood as being a poem about herself ).

* X-Per-S is a taxi service at which Sam worked early in the strip's run with Lance, Mr. Ackerman, and Carlyle.

Since February 2004, Least I Could Do has had a yearly event in which fans can submit themselves to be ' dates ' for one of the strip's characters, either primary or secondary.

In 1962 she released an LP, Peanuts, on which she played Lucy van Pelt from the comic strip namesake of the album ( with Arthur Siegel playing Charlie Brown ), and dramatizing a series of vignettes drawn from the strip's archive.

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.

Frequently, the characters break the fourth wall, mostly to explain something to the readers, talk about a subject that often sets up the strip's punchline ( like Jon claiming that pets are good for exercise right before he finds Garfield in the kitchen and chases him out ), or give a mere glare when a character is belittled or not impressed.

The strip's villains are arguably the strongest appeal of the story.

Given the quality of Collins ' artwork, and the strip's extreme longevity, it is perhaps unfortunate that there are no archive collections available.

The strip's main characters are the Dewclaws, a blended family as a result of an interspecies marriage.

Many of the strip's human characters are 1950s caricatures.

After the flash forward, all of the strip's prominent adult male characters – Funky, Les, Bull and Crazy Harry – are 46 years old.

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.

The two are the most oft-appearing non-regular human characters in the history of the strip other than the Guru, due to the strip's tight focus on its core cast of humans.

In her ( and the strip's ) second appearance, Patty is shown walking down the sidewalk reciting " Little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice.

Clayton's first words are thought to be " 300 megahertz microprocessor ," but he is seen speaking earlier in the strip's history.

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.

Though the strip's various compilations do not do them justice, the original cast of characters in Bloom County were Milo, Bess, and Major Bloom, along with a basset hound named " Rabies " whose thoughts could be read à la Snoopy ; the first year of strips are mysteriously omitted from all compilations save the Bloom Library, although a selection did find publication in a 1986 anthology collection Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness.

Some readers, who have been unaware of the strip's history in a bank's promotional magazine for children, have taken Wagner's porcine appearance as a statement of feminism, specifically implying that " men are pigs ".

Questions about particular animals are sometimes answered by the strip's other characters, Rosko the cat, Mouth the myna bird, and Slippy the flying squirrel.

Even the characters in the strip's fictional world of Pleasantville have started to notice that their lives are repeating themselves, and the lack of reader interest is causing characters to start fading.