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.

For many years he simultaneously produced the daily strip, a weekly syndicated newspaper column, and a 500-station radio program ...." He ran the Boston Summer Theatre with The Phantom cartoonist Lee Falk, bringing in Hollywood actors such as Mae West, Melvyn Douglas and Claude Rains to star in their live productions.

During the 1980s, The Beano ran a ' Readers ' Request ' feature where readers could request for a particular comic strip to feature in the Beano.

No matter whether it appeared above or below a main strip, the extra strip was known as the topper, such as The Squirrel Cage which ran along with Room and Board, both drawn by Gene Ahern.

The " Monarch of Medioka " story in Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strip ran from September 8, 1937 to May 2, 1938.

In 1978, British comic 2000AD ran a Judge Dredd comic strip featuring Chief Judge Cal, loosely based on the real life Roman emperor.

When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

Gaming magazine White Dwarf ran a comic strip called The Travellers by Mark Harrison from 1983 to 1986.

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

The comic was reprimanded by the United Nations after featuring a strip called " The Thieving Gypsy Bastards " During the resulting court case, UK newspaper The Sun ran a story revealing that the principal Roma man who initiated the action against them was in fact also being tried for ( and was later found guilty of ) handling stolen property.

In the same issue Viz ran a short strip called " The Nice, Honest Gypsies ", featuring a kindly Gypsy woman selling pegs door-to-door and helpfully returning forgotten change.

The Dandy has run two similar series firstly Whacko a strip about a teacher who always taught in a suit of armour and taught very unruly kids who always attempted to beat up their teacher but ended up being caned repeatedly which ran in the 1970s.

His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956.

Unlike the Snow White comic strip, which only adapted the film, Uncle Remus ran for decades, telling one story after another about the characters, some based on the legends and others new, until it ended on December 31, 1972.

By 1970, he ran eight strip clubs throughout Ohio in Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron and Cleveland.

* Angus Og ( comic strip ), a comic strip which ran in the Daily Record

The Medieval Castle ( 1957 ) collected the comic strip which ran beneath Prince Valiant in 1944-45 as a result of the government's WWII request that syndicates reduce strip size to save paper for the war effort.

It was consisted in reading the market informations as price, volume, orders size, speed, conditions, bids for buying and selling, etc ; printed in a paper strip which ran through a machine called a stock ticker.

A daily newspaper comic strip version of Dragnet distributed by the Los Angeles Mirror Syndicate ran in newspapers from June 23, 1952 to May 21, 1955 ( with a preview week that ran in many papers promoting its impending start ).

Each farm on the flatland was assigned a separate strip of woodland that ran up to the Hunterdon border, all crossing Rock Brook.

A weapons carrier took Greg, Todman, Belton, Banjo Ferguson, and Walters and the others the two miles from the bivouac area to the strip.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

They gathered roots, bulbs, odd ferns, leaves, and bits of resin from the rare Santa Lucia fir, which exists only on a forty-five mile strip on the westerly side of these mountains.

Then lay a three-inch-wide strip of cloth along the keel line from the transom to the point of the stem.

South of these highlands, occupying a narrow strip on each side of the Tennessee River, is a country of gentle rolling lowlands varying in elevation from.

The lighthouse and its grounds are New South Wales territory, but cut off from the rest of the state by the strip of ACT land.

Accordingly, these Protestants strip the notion of apostolic succession from the definition of " apostolic " or " apostolicity.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

" In 1950, Capp introduced a cartoonist character named " Happy Vermin "— a caricature of Fisher — who hired Abner to draw his comic strip in a dimly lit closet, ( after sacking his previous " temporary " assistant of 20 years, who had been cut off from all his friends in the process ).

Frazetta, later famous as a fantasy artist, assisted on the strip from 1954 to December, 1961.

The resulting publicity led to hundreds of papers dropping his comic strip, and Capp, already in failing health, withdrew from public speaking.

A green flash was added to the socks, which from 1938 became a green turnover ( although on blue socks thus eliminating red from the kit ), and that has remained a feature of the strip ever since.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

Watterson has kept away from the public eye and has given no indication of resuming the strip, creating new works based on the characters, or embarking on other projects, though he has published several anthologies of Calvin and Hobbes strips.

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 ).

The background was changed from one colour behind the logo and another behind the Dennis strip to one single colour or a pattern, such as red and black stripes.

The first panel of the Dennis & Gnasher strip also appeared on the cover, like from 1972-2008, but the " This Week In Beanotown " feature still appeared across the bottom.

A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, and negotiations over the next several years led to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou strip, effectively ending Libyan occupation.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

The Emperor issued a declaration that they would be considered to hold citizenship from then on, since to strip them of their status would cause major problems.

* Cassiopeia, Queen of the bee colony living in the tree across from Lindesfarne and Fenton in Kevin and Kell comic strip by Bill Holbrook.

He had attempted to improve his style by copying the drawings of his favorite comic strip artists from the newspapers where he could find them.