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strip's and subject
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.
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.

strip's and matter
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 ).

strip's and early
The character later known as the Yellow Kid had minor supporting roles in the strip's early panels.
" AV Club reviewer Noel Murray wrote: " Ketcham also experimented with his line a little early on, tightening and thickening without losing the looseness and spontaneity that remains the strip's best aspect even now.
Herriman seems to have identitfied hismelf as white, and his early work is " replete with black caricatures " such as in Musical Mose, where the strip's black musician wishes his " color would fade ".
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.
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.
The strip's original main character, a boy named Matt Havens who was the son of the day care operator, was dropped early in the elementary school stretch.
In its early decades, a timid man named Henry Tremblechin was a recurring victim of the strip's observations.
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 early 90s saw perhaps the most bizarre running story of the strip's history, as Greytowers was invaded by aliens, who used mind control powers to take over several characters and tried to cast the school adrift in space, until Winker used the aliens ' allergy to pig swill to defeat them.
Alex and Penny married in the strip's early days and had a son called Christopher, who grew up, went to school, had work experience and has now started college.
They married very early in the strip's history, and have one son, Christopher.
Unlike many of the early Eagle strips, The Tower King was in drawn rather than photographic format ; the strip's creators made use of the opportunity by juxtapositioning jarring visual elements, such as historic London landmarks strewn with the rubble of modern buildings, or soldiers in patchwork armor complete with pocket watches and police helmets, armed with both halberds and grenades.
* X-Per-S is a taxi service at which Sam worked early in the strip's run with Lance, Mr. Ackerman, and Carlyle.
In the strip's episodes published in late 2005 and early 2006, Nathan helped to save the life of a Loch Ness Monster and was captured by Viking pirates.
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 ".

strip's and months
However, Opus the Penguin returned in the strip's third installment, and Bill the Cat appeared months after that.

strip's and from
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 humor style — quite contemporary, in contrast to its medieval setting — ranges from broad and low to pure black ", according to Don Markstein's Toonopedia.
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.
The strip's humor comes from the conflict between Bucky's and Satchel's personalities, which are extreme stereotypes of cats and dogs.
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.
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.

strip's and pattern
In Annie's first year, the picaresque pattern that will characterize her story is set, with the major players – Annie, Sandy, and " Daddy " Warbucks – introduced within the strip's first several weeks.

strip's and later
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.
* Snooty's later pals ( who became his pals in the strip's second series ):
Three years later, Groening announced the strip's conclusion and the final new strip ran on June 16, 2012.
This became a frequent running gag in the strip's later years.
Over the week of July 7, 2008, Pearls Before Swine parodied the tendency of Funky Winkerbean towards killing off main characters when it killed off Rat and the strip's own author, Stephan Pastis ( the two would later be returned to the strip via the intervention of United Feature Syndicate ), even utilizing Batiuk's representation of the Angel of Death.
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.
Most of the strip's most memorable characters debuted later on, with Milo being the only key character to appear for the duration of the strip's run.
In fact, I have no examples of Snorky later than 1937 in my collection ; the 1939 date is based on the strip's listing in the Editor & Publisher yearbooks.
Since then, the strip's characters have enacted major life changes: notably, Noel moved in with and later married his girlfriend, and Rayne, in a plot arc beginning in September, experimented with monogamy.
Following legal action a notice was added to later versions and the strip's creators, Steve MacManus and Kevin O ' Neill, now get writer's credits.

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