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Comic Strip History and Culture Quiz

Test your knowledge of the history and culture of comic strips through a series of engaging questions about their development, significance, and key figures.

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1 [15] ________ and Doonesbury began as strips in college newspapers under different titles, and later moved to national syndication.

2 Many issues such as sex, drugs and terrorism cannot or can very rarely be openly discussed in strips, although there are exceptions, usually for satire, as in ________.

3 When Watterson's ________ grew to fame, he insisted that his Sunday strip be published without cropping and at a half-page size, a move criticized by newspaper editors and a few cartoonists.

4 The last full-page comic strip was the ________ strip for 11 April 1971.

5 Some, such as Scott Adams, creator of ________, include an email address in each strip.

6 ________ has written extensively on the issue, claiming that size reduction and dropped panels reduce both the potential and freedom of a cartoonist.

7 [3] ________ is usually credited as the first.

8 science fiction and ________-like dramas are also prevalent.

9 ________ graduated from undergrounds to alternative weekly newspapers to Mad and children's books.

10 Examples in print form exist in 19th-century Germany and in 18th-century England, where some of the first ________ or humorous sequential narrative drawings were produced.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 1914 comic strip Abie the Agent, the first American comic with a Jewish protagonist, has been called the first adult comic.
  • the 1912 comic strip Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett was the first American strip to have a female protagonist.
  • the comic strip Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper is said to be the first comic to consistently use speech balloons, and was the first North American comic to be adapted into a movie.
  • the Frank and Ernest comic strip first remarked that Fred Astaire "was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ... backwards and in high heels," according to The Yale Book of Quotations.
  • the two-inch-tall people of The Teenie Weenies were a Chicago Tribune comic strip written by William Donahey for over 50 years.
  • Jeff Hawke, a science fiction comic strip, almost perfectly predicted the date of the first human moon landing more than ten years before.
  • Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in The Family Circus, but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil Keane, regained full copyrights to the comic strip.
  • Arbit Choudhury is the first ever business school student comic strip and web comic.
  • fighter ace Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent served as the prototype for two comic strip characters after his wife sent photographs to cartoonist Milton Caniff.
  • Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse.
  • Morning Funnies was a fruit-flavored breakfast cereal featuring comic strip characters including Dennis the Menace, Hägar the Horrible, and Funky Winkerbean on the box.
  • Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff.
  • fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks, an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania's best-known creators of comic strips.
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