A long narrow strip of land is more efficient to plough than a square plot, since the plough does not have to be turned so often.

In the Golden Age of the American comic strip, successful cartoonists received a great deal of attention ; their professional and private lives were reported in the press, and their celebrity was often nearly sufficient to rival their creations.

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

Sunday pages during the 1930s and into the 1940s often carried a secondary strip by the same artist as the main strip.

Originally during his appearances in Action Comics and later in his own magazine, the Man of Steel would strip to his costume and stand revealed as Superman, often with the transformation having already been completed.

However their necks are often reinforced with a strip of harder wood, such as an ebony strip running down the back of a cedar neck.

Other gags focused on Jon's poor social skills and inability to get a date ; before he started dating Liz, he often tried to get dates, usually without success ( in one strip, after failing to get a date with " Nancy ", he tried getting a date with her mother and grandmother ; he ended up getting " shot down by three generations ".

Unlike the strip, which focused most of all on the gruesomely amusing antics of Hans and Fritz, the MGM cartoons often centered around the Captain.

The last panel in each strip was always one of Nemo waking up, usually in or near his bed, and often being scolded ( or comforted ) by one of the grownups of the household after crying out in his sleep and waking them.

Although a comic strip, it was far from a simple children's fantasy ; it was often dark, surreal, threatening, and even violent.

The Liverpool away strip has more often than not been all yellow or white shirts and black shorts, but there have been several exceptions.

The Manchester United away strip has often been a white shirt, black shorts and white socks, but there have been several exceptions.

Because the ard leaves a strip of undisturbed earth between the furrows, the fields are often cross-ploughed lengthwise and across, and this tends to form squarish fields ( Celtic fields ).

The Yellow Kid's last appearance is most often noted as 23 January 1898 in a strip about hair tonic.

The strip continues to be syndicated in many newspapers but often ranks at or near the bottom of reader polls.

He has four close friends: Claude Funston, a hapless working man ; Griffy, a stand-in for Bill Griffith, who often appears in the strip to complain about various aspects of modern life ; Shelf-Life, a fast-talking schemer always looking for " the next big thing "; and Vizeen Nurney, a 20-something lounge singer who, despite her rebellious image, has an optimistic and sympathetic nature.

Some regular features disappeared over the years: the Grimbledon Down comic strip about a research establishment run by the hapless Treem ; Ariadne, later with Nature, commenting every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of ( fictitious ) inventor Daedalus, often developed by the ( fictitious ) DREADCO corporation.

Because of Jacques Chirac's long career in visible government positions, he has often been parodied or caricatured: Young Jacques Chirac is the basis of a young, dashing bureaucrat character in the 1976 Asterix comic strip album Obelix and Co., proposing methods to quell Gallic unrest to elderly, old-style Roman politicians.

For aquatinting a printmaker will often use a test strip of metal about a centimetre to three centimetres wide.

Business was often conducted at the Bada Bing strip club.

It is known for its rich valley farm land and is part of the Great Appalachian Valley ( also known simply as the ' Great Valley ') which is a long narrow valley strip often between tall mountain ranges.

Mixing consoles often include high-pass filtering at each channel strip.

The harmattan, a hot, dry, and often dust-laden wind, blows from the Sahara throughout the long dry season and is the prevailing wind, except along the narrow coastal strip, which is influenced by oceanic trade winds.

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

I did some research ( I had no idea ), and I eventually found ... the strip " Back to Pinhead, the Punks and the Monks " from Yow # 2 in 1979 ... That's the first time he said, " Are we having fun yet?

For example, a strip making fun of BET's rap videos, some of which rely on the sexually suggestive gyrations of female dancers, and a strip mocking Whitney Houston's drug problems and emphasizing her buttocks, were pulled out of circulation.

The strip Pearls Before Swine made fun of the fact that their cast was not invited, and decided to invite themselves.

The rules of strip poker are flexible and intended to generate an atmosphere of adult fun.

It featured a woman who struggled through the " four basic guilt groups " of life — food, love, mom, and work — the strip gently poked fun at the lives and foibles of modern women.

It debuted in Dragon magazine issue # 246 ( April 1998 ), first with short strips, and later receiving a second strip in Dungeon magazine, making fun of one of the adventures published in each issue.

Once, he managed to give Garfield a taste of his own medicine in a strip where Garfield tried to have fun with an Odie mask.

In another strip he pulled a gun on the other characters for making fun of him.

Each issue contains a comic strip (" Kokopelli & Company ") written by Larry Gonick, a spoof about the main subject of the issue ( Dear Muse Reader ), a fun facts page ( Bo's page ), letters from readers ( Muse Mail ), a contest, a question-and-answer page written by Robert Coontz, Rosanne Spector, and Rebecca Lasley ; an article written by a Muse reader (" Muserology "), a short article based on a surprising photo (" Last Page "), and articles on various topics.

He produced a monthly comic strip in the New York Times Book Review called " Boox " in 2001 – 2004 that made fun of publishing trends.

He saw the dark sweat spots flip in and out of sight under the patrolman's swinging arms and in the leather holster that swaggered and rolled at the side of his stocky body, the sun left a smoky shine on the narrow strip of blue metal that ran between the horned handles of his pistol.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

Twist one strip diagonally around each skinless frankfurter, pinching dough at ends to seal it.

A smile pulled at the lower strip of adhesive tape.

Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.

Also during this period, Capp was working at night on samples for the strip that would eventually become Li ' l Abner.

A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

Besides his use of the comic strip to voice his opinions and display his humor, Capp was a popular guest speaker at universities, and on radio and television.

People crossing the so-called " death strip " on the eastern side were at risk of being shot.

On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

Marlborough quickly moved forward two brigades under the command of General Wilkes and Brigadier Rowe to secure the narrow strip of land between the Danube and the wooded Fuchsberg hill, at the Schwenningen defile.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

While majoring in illustration and visual design at Auburn University, Holbrook served as art director of the student newspaper, doing editorial cartoons and a weekly comic strip.

A spin-off, " People's Park Annex ," was established at the same time by activist citizens of Berkeley on a strip of land above the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway construction along Hearst Avenue northwest of the U. C.

Numerous events in newspaper comic strips have reverberated throughout society at large, though few of these events occurred in recent years, owing mainly to the declining role of the newspaper comic strip as an entertainment form.

Initially, a newspaper page included only a single daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page.

The world's longest comic strip is long and on display at Trafalgar Square as part of the London Comedy Festival.

Also, the position of the saddle, usually a strip of bone or plastic that supports the strings off the bridge, determines the distance to the nut ( at the top of the fingerboard ).

The simplest description ( besides the entire area-floodplain ) of the water divide is a " south-bank Orinoco River strip " at the exit point of the Orinoco, also the origin of the Casiquiare canal.

The Cowboys also include a unique, if subtle, feature on the back of the helmet: a blue strip of Dymo tape with the player's name embossed, placed on the white portion of the stripe at the back of the helmet.

The word “ frooglepoopillion ” is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

Prior to the hiatus, the strip ’ s characters had aged at the tectonically slow rate standard for comic strips.