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 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.

In 2008, he provided a foreword for the first book collection of Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac comic strip.

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.

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.

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

The first strip to feature aging characters was Gasoline Alley.

# Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons — April 16, 1989 ( first strip ) to October 21, 1989

On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught posting a comic strip which " compares managers to drunken lemurs ".

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

As Doonesbury, the strip debuted as a daily strip in about two dozen newspapers on October 26, 1970 – the first strip from Universal Press Syndicate.

In May 1975, the strip won Trudeau a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the first strip cartoon to be so honored.

* In 1975, the strip won Trudeau a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the first strip cartoon to be so honored.

His first published comic ( besides the spot illustrations in his grade school and high school newspapers ) was a comic strip featuring his own character, Lancelot Pertwillaby entitled “ The Pertwillaby Papers ”.

Congress, for its part, at first not really wanting any part of the affair, effectively voted to strip and then abandon the forts.

Starring Alberto Sordi in the title role, the film is a revised version of a treatment first written by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1949 and based on the fotoromanzi, the photographed cartoon strip romances popular in Italy at the time.

It was implied that Jon is inspired by a drawing of Davis himself when he was first drawing the strip.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie were created by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro, and first appeared in a newspaper comic strip on October 17, 1937.

Iqaluit's first permanent inhabitant was Nakasuk, an Inuk guide who helped American Air Force planners to choose a site with a large flat area suitable for a landing strip.

Penguins featured regularly in the cartoons of UK cartoonist Steve Bell in his strip in The Guardian Newspaper, particularly during and following the Falklands War.

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

The modern circular badge is regularly used on club merchandise and by the media ; it has never featured prominently on the club strip.

It regularly features Donald Rooum's Wildcat cartoon strip as well as Rooum's articles, and has Svartfrosk and Louis Further as regular columnists.

His weekly comic strip This Modern World, which comments on current events, appears regularly in over 90 newspapers across the U. S. and Canada as of 2006, as well as on CREDO Action and Daily Kos, where he is its comics curator.

From 1969 to 1998, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz ( himself a veteran of World War II ) regularly paid tribute to Bill Mauldin in his Peanuts comic strip on Veterans Day.

The away strip has changed regularly over the years although an all yellow strip has been used for many of the recent seasons in the club's history.

Among his creations was a comic strip that appeared regularly in Judge from 1903 until 1907, about a tramp character titled Nervy Nat.

Bil's mother ( Florence, but usually called Grandma ) appears regularly in the strip and apparently lives near the family.

Captain Horatio Pugwash made his debut in a comic-strip format in the first issue of The Eagle in 1950, then appeared regularly as a strip in Radio Times.

Pastis regularly puts tributes to them in his strip.

The strip later added the tag-line “ He ’ s always getting whacked ” to emphasise the story of a schoolboy who is regularly caned by his sadistic teacher – the equally appropriately named Mr Thwackery.

While at Cambridge he wrote regularly for the undergraduate newspaper Varsity and also created a strip cartoon whose hero, " Olly ", reflected student life and became a cult figure.

A comic strip also regularly appeared in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine.

Bave continued drawing it until 2002, when Stevie White took over, producing the strip regularly until 2007, with further appearances in the 2012 Annual.

The only other regularly recurring antagonist ( even though he never appeared in the strip ), he occasionally attempts to catch and eat Sheldon as well.

Dolly and Ena almost always appear in a Mrs. Brady Old Lady strip, and both they and Mrs. Brady herself regularly have non-speaking cameo roles or appear as background characters in other Viz strips.

Her boyfriend, Grim, is now a huge part of Nemi's life and the two are regularly featured together in the ( UK ) strip, sharing and discussing off-beat topics.

A strip club is an adult entertainment venue and a type of nightclub in which stripteases or other erotic or exotic dances are regularly performed.

A common type of strip club main stage is the thrust stage, also known as a runway stage, but the other major forms are also used regularly.

The most common type of strip club main stage is the thrust stage, but the other major forms are also used regularly.

Kuper's Eye of the Beholder was the first comic strip to ever regularly appear in the New York Times and his autobiography Stop Forgetting to Remember covers the birth of his daughter, 9 / 11, and other vicissitudes in his life from 1995-2005.