From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

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

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.

It was decided to strip the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the rough coats up to one inch thickness to agree with the older artists' preparation, with a mortar, one part slaked lime, three parts sand, to be put on in two layers.

Her name was Sabella, and the strip of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace the King gave her as a token of his undying love.

Eliminating the turret also allowed the vehicle to carry thicker armor than would otherwise be the case, although sometimes there was no roof ( or merely a strip of canvas ) to keep the overall weight down to the limit that the chassis could bear.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

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

The strip was the first to regularly introduce characters and story lines having nothing to do with the nominal stars of the strip.

The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.

Li ' l Abner was also the subject of the first book-length, scholarly assessment of an American comic strip ever published.

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.

The Capp-Fisher feud was well known in cartooning circles, and it grew more personal as Capp's strip eclipsed Joe Palooka in popularity.

" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.

Allen Saunders, the creator of the Mary Worth strip, returned Capp's fire with the introduction of the character " Hal Rapp ," a foul-tempered, ill-mannered, and ( ironically ) inebriated cartoonist, ( Capp was a teetotaler ).

Ironically, this highly irregular policy ( along with the subsequent fame of Frank Frazetta ) has led to the misconception that his strip was " ghosted " by other hands.

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.

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.

" If you have any sense of humor about your strip — and I had a sense of humor about mine — you knew that for three or four years Abner was wrong.

A thin strip of seal intestine was also used and was twisted to form a thread.

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.

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

Plug's strip was mostly drawn by Vic Neill but other artists, including Dave Gudgeon drew some later strips.

During the 1930s, the original art for a daily strip could be drawn as large as 25 inches wide by six inches high.

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.

During the 1930s, the original art for a Sunday strip was usually drawn quite large.

Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams.

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by the German immigrant Rudolph Dirks and drawn by Harold H. Knerr for 37 years ( 1912 to 1949 ).

Knerr continued drawing The Katzenjammer Kids until his death in 1949 ; the strip was then written and drawn by Charles H. Winner ( 1949 – 56 ), with Joe Musial taking over in 1956.

The strip is currently drawn by Hy Eisman and distributed internationally to some 50 newspapers and magazines.

Created and drawn by Richard F. Outcault in the comic strip Hogan's Alley ( and later under other names as well ), it was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper, although its graphical layout had already been thoroughly established in political and other, purely-for-entertainment cartoons.

The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing " Jersey ", the names of five cities ( Los Angeles ; Washington, D. C .; Las Vegas ; Kansas City ; and Chicago ) and three states ( Texas, Utah, and Nebraska ) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey.

The zoetrope worked on the same principles as the phenakistoscope, but the pictures were drawn on a strip which could be set around the bottom third of a metal drum, with the slits now cut in the upper section of the drum.

His films were not photographed, but drawn directly onto the transparent strip.

During the late 1970s the strip was thought to have been drawn by a few other artists due to an ailing Gould.

Since 1961 David Sutherland has drawn the strip, and has drawn roughly 2100 strips.

Sutherland has drawn the majority of the strips since then, except for a period from 1998 to 2000, when Nigel Parkinson took over the strip, drawing it in a style similar to how David Parkins was drawing Dennis the Menace by that point ( the strips have had closely connected visual styles since the early 1970s, when Sutherland started drawing them both ).

In recent years, Mike Pearse and Kev F. Sutherland ( no relation to David Sutherland ) have also occasionally drawn the strip, particularly in long stories.

Most of these strips were drawn Tom Paterson, who later drew the Singled Out strip itself.

If ... is an ongoing political comic strip which appears in the UK newspaper The Guardian, written and drawn by Steve Bell since its creation in 1981.

In the early 1980s, a daily comic strip based on the show was drawn by Roger Mahoney and appeared in the Daily Star.

He first appeared in the comic strip adventure " Mickey Mouse in Death Valley ", the first real Mickey Mouse continuity, which was partially written by Walt Disney and drawn by Win Smith and other artists, before being taken over by Floyd Gottfredson ( plot and art ).

The strip was drawn in the " ultra-modern abstract style " popularized by UPA animations such as Mr. Magoo and the comedy arose from the contradiction between the drawings and their captions.