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

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

The strip's humor comes from the conflict between Bucky's and Satchel's personalities, which are extreme stereotypes of cats and dogs.

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?

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

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.

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.

* Kayo: Moon's street urchin kid brother, who sleeps in an open dresser drawer — one of the strip's most iconic images.

* Private Beetle Bailey — the main character and strip's namesake ; a feckless, shirking, perpetual goof-off and straggler known for his chronic laziness and generally insubordinate attitude.

* Lieutenant Jackson Flap — the strip's first black character, often touchy and suspicious — but effortlessly cool, introduced in 1970.

* Corporal Yo — the strip's first Asian character, introduced in 1990.

* 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.

Frazz — The eponymous character, Edwin Frazier is a 29-year-old songwriter who took a job as janitor of Bryson Elementary ( He mentions that he got out of third grade 21 years previous to the strip's beginning ).

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 ).

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.

Dilbert is sometimes found in the business section of a newspaper instead of the comics page because of the strip's commentary about office politics, and Tank McNamara often appears on the sports page because of its subject matter.

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.

Part of the strip's broad appeal is due to its lack of social or political commentary ; though this was Davis's original intention, he also admitted that his " grasp of politics isn't strong ", remarking that, for many years, he thought " OPEC was a denture adhesive ".

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.

< p > The strip's waning circulation got a shot in the arm in the 1950s when President Eisenhower sang its praises, and then again in the 1970s when a nostalgia craze swept the nation.

McGruder ended the strip's run in The Diamondback on March 18, 1997, two weeks after the strip was omitted due to a technical error and a Diamondback staffer printed the word " OOPS " in its place without an explanation.

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 strip's popularity faded, and Bringing Up Father limped along until its 87-year run came to a close on May 28, 2000.

Though he spoke the only lines of dialogue in the first strip and was one of the strip's primary figures in its first few years, he was mainly utilized as a " straight man " for Charlie Brown and soon began to be eclipsed by newer characters who were more developed, such as Linus and Lucy.

In its early decades, a timid man named Henry Tremblechin was a recurring victim of the strip's observations.

Prior to its status as an NHRA national event track, the Bristol Dragway was the flagship strip of the rival IHRA organization ; the strip's owner Larry Carrier formed the IHRA at the Bristol Dragway in November 1970.

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.

References to Christianity, anachronistic given the strip's supposed setting and the implications of its title, would become increasingly frequent during Hart's later years.

It includes plot summaries of the Prince Valiant comic strip from its beginning duirng 1937 to the 1980 retirement of the strip's creator, Hal Foster, along with additional material on the series and Foster's other work.

Wigu is the successor to When I Grow Up and derives its name from the earlier strip's initials.

The nearly identical Starslip Crisis appeared early in the strip's run, with its own website and associated content, differing only in that the term " starslip " replaced " starshift ".

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.

In 1967, Al Capp licensed and had an interest in an, $ 35 million theme park called Dogpatch USA, based on the comic strip's setting.

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

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.

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.

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.