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.

For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.

On May 16, 1949, the strip was picked up for national distribution by the Post-Hall Syndicate.

* Harvey Comics, which had several other comic strip reprint comics running at the time, picked up Mutt and Jeff from Dell, and this version of the comic ran to 1965 for a total of 33 issues, plus two short-lived spinoff titles: Mutt & Jeff Jokes and Mutt & Jeff New Jokes.

In April 2003, the Sun-Times picked up the comic strip Beetle Bailey after the rival Chicago Tribune dropped it in June 2002 and gave up the rights to it in February 2003.

When she was 23, the Chicago Reader picked up her comic strip, enabling her to make a living from her comics alone.

As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999.

The comic strip was picked up by the Chicago Tribune and syndicated to 60-75 major newspapers from 1959 to 1961.

The strip was briefly picked up by The Arizona Daily Wildcat, the student run newspaper of the University of Arizona, in 1989.

The strip was later picked up by the Tucson Weekly, and it now appears in over 75 alternative weeklies.

Pep magazine picked up the strip in 1971, and published it through several incarnations of the magazine.

The strip was later picked up for national syndication by King Features Syndicate, which began distributing it in May 1994.

This last put him in touch with writer Grant Morrison, who then picked Yeowell to be the sole artist on new superhero strip Zenith, to run in 2000 AD beginning in 1987.

Woodall and Constantine were similarly depicted in the comic Viz in a cartoon strip as being bullies that picked on children who wore NHS glasses and second-hand clothing.

A strip based on the television series also ran in two publications in the UK: ' Look-In ' with 64 weekly installments covering 10 separate adventures between autumn 1980 and early 1982, and ' TV Tops ', which picked up the rights from 1982 for two shorter runs.

No new strips were added this time, but the amount of reprints went up to 5, sometimes lowering back to 4 per week, and an extra Dennis strip was added on the inside back two pages.

Duke blows up stained glass windows in an empty church or goes to strip clubs where Japanese women lower their kimonos exposing their breasts.

Hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast ; cooler and wetter in the central highlands ( up to of rainfall annually ); semiarid in western hills and lowlands ; rainfall heaviest during June – September except in coastal desert.

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 ".

* ( from Egypt ) the entire Sinai peninsula up to the Suez Canal, and the Gaza strip.

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.

This releases a rectangular strip of sod that is then lifted by the share and carried by the mouldboard up and over, so that the strip of sod ( slice of the topsoil ) that is being cut lifts and rolls over as the plough moves forward, dropping back to the ground upside down into the furrow and onto the turned soil from the previous run down the field.

If the strip was in the same place each year, the soil built up into a ridge, creating the ridge and furrow topography still seen in some ancient fields.

During the summer of 1836, Congress proposed a compromise whereby Michigan gave up its claim to the strip in exchange for its statehood and approximately three-quarters of the Upper Peninsula.

), and Bob Hope had a strip of him trying to think up amusing last words to utter on his deathbed ( but ended up with just a load of swearing ).

Towards the end of the 1940s, Gould took steps to shake up the status quo of his strip.

The bulk of the Arab refugees from the former British Mandate of Palestine ended up in the Gaza strip ( under Egyptian rule between 1949 and 1967 ) and the West Bank ( under Jordanian rule between 1949 and 1967 ), Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

The ground will then be removed from the strip and the strip inked up and printed.

Those made up of the elite are best known as gentlemen's clubs ( not to be confused with strip clubs ) and country clubs ( though these also have an athletic function, see below ).

She eventually gave the strip up because the daily work of a comic artist did not leave her time to write books and paint, but Lars took over the strip and continued it until 1975.

His short sightedness is renowned amongst other Beano stars, most evident in a strip in The Beano Annual 2000 where the stars had taken a cruise to Australia only to find out they had somehow ended up in Scotland.

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.

The ribbon controller allowed Emerson to vary pitch, volume or timbre of the output from the Moog by moving his finger up and down the length of a touch-sensitive strip.