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40-465: [REDACTED] Look up funnies in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Funnies or The Funnies may refer to: Sunday comics , the comic strip section carried in most western newspapers, almost always in color The Funnies , a proto-comic book series first published by Dell Publishing in 1929 Funnies Inc. , an American comic book packager of

80-476: A Naval Aviator and flew as an ace Navy fighter and dive bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater where he had numerous adventures with his sidekick, enlisted Naval Aircrewman Rosco Sweeney. As a civilian in the post-World War II years, Buz became an oil company troubleshooter, traveling to far-flung locales. He married Christy Jameson on 13 December 1948, and their son Pepper was born in 1951. Buz rejoined

120-601: A color press, and the Recorder published the first American newspaper color page on April 2, 1893. The following month, Pulitzer's New York World printed cartoonist Walt McDougall 's "The Possibilities of the Broadway Cable Car" as a color page on May 21, 1893. In 1894, Pulitzer introduced the Sunday color supplement. The Yellow Kid is usually credited as one of the first US newspaper comic strips. However,

160-608: A library collecting his Horácio full-color Sunday comics, originally published in the children's supplement of Folha de S.Paulo between 1963 and 1992. After the publisher of the Chicago Inter-Ocean saw the first color press in Paris at the offices of Le Petit Journal , he had his own color press operating late in 1892. At the New York Recorder , manager George Turner had R. Hoe & Co. design

200-463: A narrative in an ongoing storyline. Other strips offer a gag complete in a single episode, such as Little Iodine and Mutt and Jeff . The Sunday strip is contrasted with the daily comic strip , published Monday through Saturday, usually in black and white. Many comic strips appear both daily and Sunday, in some cases, as with Little Orphan Annie , telling the same story daily and Sunday, in other cases, as with The Phantom , telling one story in

240-464: A new home in book collections of recent years. On the other hand, numerous strips such as Bob Gustafson 's Specs and Virgil Partch 's The Captain's Gig are almost completely forgotten today, other than a brief display in the Stripper's Guide site run by comics historian Allan Holtz . Many of the leading cartoonists also drew an accompanying topper strip to run above or below their main strip,

280-527: A practice which began to fade away during the late 1930s. Holtz notes, "You'll hear historians say that the topper strip was a victim of World War II paper shortages. Don't believe a word of it—it's the ads that killed full-page strips, and that killed the topper. World War II only exacerbated an already bad situation." Mauricio de Sousa 's popular newspaper strips helped him become the most successful comic book artist in Brazil. In 2021, Pipoca e Nanquim released

320-494: A subject from nature, such as The Grand Canyon or Buffalo Hunt . A page on covered wagons carried the headline, "Covered wagons shown in an easy-to-build model: Scissors, paste and wrapping paper are all you need to make this Western set." Some radio stations across the United States featured Sunday morning programs in which an announcer read aloud from the Sunday comics section, allowing readers to follow action in

360-411: A tabloid page. Today, with the ever-shrinking size of Sunday strips, many other smaller formats abound. Usually, only the largest format is complete, with the other formats dropping or cropping one or more panels. Such "throwaway" panels often contain material that is not vital to the main part of the strip. Most cartoonists fill the first two panels of their strips with a " throwaway gag ," knowing that

400-526: A two-tier third-page. Half-page Sunday strips have at least two different styles. The King Features , the Creators' and the Chicago Tribune syndicates use nine panels (with only one used for the title), while United Features and Universal Press ' half-page Sunday strips (most of them use a third-page format instead) use two panels for the title (except for Jim Davis ' U.S. Acres —which used

440-453: Is "Biggest Comics Section in the Land". Another big-size comic section is that of The Washington Post which carries 41 strips in eight broadsheet pages although it also contains a sudoku and a Jumble puzzle. Canadian newspaper comic sections are unique not only because of being printed on Saturdays, but these usually are also part of the entertainment or lifestyle section. A notable exception

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480-480: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sunday comics The first US newspaper comic strips appeared in the late 19th century, closely allied with the invention of the color press. Jimmy Swinnerton 's The Little Bears introduced sequential art and recurring characters in William Randolph Hearst 's San Francisco Examiner . In

520-481: Is that of the Winnipeg Free Press which publishes an eight-page comic-only tabloid section. Early Sunday strips usually filled a full newspaper page, but over decades they shrank in size, becoming smaller and smaller. Currently, no Sunday strips stand alone on a page, and some newspapers crowd as many as eight Sunday strips on a single page. The last full-page Sunday strip was Prince Valiant , which

560-543: The New Orleans Times Picayune , or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the Chicago Sun-Times . When Sunday strips began to appear in more than one format, it became necessary for the cartoonist to follow a standardized strip layout, which provides newspapers with the greatest flexibility in determining how to print a strip. One notable distinction among Sunday comics supplements was

600-463: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch . There were educational strips, such as King Features' Heroes of American History . In addition to the comic strips, Sunday comics sections also carried advertisements in a comics format, single-panel features, puzzles, paper dolls and cut-and-paste activities. The World Museum gave readers instructions for cutting pictures apart and assembling them into a diorama , often with

640-526: The 1930s to 1940s Funnies (golf) , terms used in golf to describe unusual events that are used for gambling Funnies on Parade , a proto-comic book series published by Eastern Color Printing in 1933 Famous Funnies , a seminal 1930s American comic book series Hobart's Funnies , the specialised tanks of the British 79th Armoured Division The Funnies (Monica's Gang) , a Mauricio de Sousa's creation related to Monica's Gang Topics referred to by

680-399: The 1950s, there were a few short-lived attempts to revive the full-page Sunday strip. Examples such as Lance by Warren Tufts and Frank Giacoia 's Johnny Reb and Billy Yank proved artistic, though not commercial, successes. Other formats for Sunday strips include the half-page , the third of a page , the quarter page, the tabloid page or tab , and the half tab , short for half of

720-530: The Navy in the 1950s and flew carrier-based reconnaissance attack jets over Vietnam during the 1960s. Roy Crane was one of the innovators of the adventure comic strip. Wash Tubbs began in 1924 as a humorous story about the romantic adventures of Washington Tubbs, but increasingly Tubbs became involved in exciting adventures in exotic places. With the creation of the popular soldier of fortune Captain Easy in 1929,

760-561: The Navy). The second volume covers daily strips from October 1945 to July 1947, along with the Salvaduras Sunday sequence, and came out in 2012. The third volume covers daily strips from July 1947 to July 1949, and came out in 2014. The fourth volume covers daily strips from July 1949 to June 1952, and came out in 2016. In June 2006, King Features' email service, DailyINK , now Comics Kingdom , began running Buz Sawyer dailies from

800-506: The United States, the popularity of color comic strips sprang from the newspaper war between Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer . Some newspapers, such as Grit , published Sunday strips in black-and-white, and some (mostly in Canada ) print their Sunday strips on Saturday. Subject matter and genres have ranged from adventure, detective and humor strips to dramatic strips with soap opera situations, such as Mary Worth . A continuity strip employs

840-578: The artform combining words and pictures evolved gradually, and there are many examples of proto-comic strips. In 1995, King Features Syndicate president Joseph F. D'Angelo wrote: In 1905, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland began. Stephen Becker, in Comic Art in America , noted that Little Nemo in Slumberland was "probably the first strip to exploit color for purely aesthetic purposes; it

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880-551: The daily and a different story in the Sunday. Some strips, such as Prince Valiant appear only on Sunday. Others, such as Rip Kirby , are daily only and have never appeared on Sunday. In some cases, such as Buz Sawyer , the Sunday strip is a spin-off, focusing on different characters than the daily. Famous American full-page Sunday strips include Alley Oop , Barney Google and Snuffy Smith , Blondie , Bringing Up Father , Buck Rogers , Captain Easy , Flash Gordon , and Thimble Theatre . Such classics have found

920-434: The daily strip from the beginning. Only a few scattered Sundays have ever been reprinted. The comic strip was also adapted into a Better Little Book, Buz Sawyer and Bomber 13 . In 2011, Fantagraphics Books published the first in a series of books reprinting the daily strips, along with selected Sunday strips. The first volume covers the daily strips from 1 November 1943 (the first strip) until 5 October 1945 (when Buz leaves

960-576: The events this way: Granberry began writing Buz Sawyer during the 1940s, continuing as the strip's scripter until 1983. In 1946, 31-year-old Henry G. Schlensker, who had created Biff Baker with Ernest Lynn (1941–45), settled in Orlando, where he became Crane's art assistant. An ulcer resulted in Crane's retirement from the strip in the 1960s, but he continued to work closely with Granberry and Schlensker. After Crane's death in 1977, Schlensker began signing

1000-619: The expense of printing so many color pages. The last full-page comic strip was the Prince Valiant strip for 11 April 1971. The dimensions of the Sunday comics continued to decrease in recent years, as did the number of pages. Sunday comics sections that were 10 or 12 pages in 1950 dropped to six or four pages by 2005. One of the last large-size Sunday comics in the United States is in the Reading Eagle , which has eight Berliner-size pages and carries 36 comics. Its banner headline

1040-668: The first Southern newspaper to publish a Sunday comic section. For most of the 20th century, the Sunday funnies were a family tradition, enjoyed each weekend by adults and kids alike. They were read by millions and produced famous fictional characters in such strips as Flash Gordon , Little Orphan Annie , Prince Valiant , Dick Tracy and Terry and the Pirates . Leading the lists of classic humor strips are Bringing Up Father , Gasoline Alley , Li'l Abner , Pogo , Peanuts and Smokey Stover . Some newspapers added their own local features, such as Our Own Oddities in

1080-498: The naval reserve program, now named the United States Navy Reserve . Even when he was on the farm he had interesting adventures. In 1964 he and Lucille met space aliens with a flying saucer, and in 1967 he planted a tree that grew five dollar bills. Roy Crane claimed that Sweeney was his favorite character – just an average guy, trying to do the right thing, but getting into trouble. By 1949 Roscoe Sweeney

1120-435: The nine-panel format- during the 1980s, when most UFS strips -particularly Davis' more successful Garfield —would have a throwaway gag). Currently, the largest and most complete format for most Sunday strips, such as Peanuts , is the half page . A few strips have been popular enough for the artist to insist on the Sunday strip being run in a half-page format, though not necessarily in a half-page size. Calvin and Hobbes

1160-414: The panels as they listened to the dialogue. Most notably, on July 8, 1945, during a New York newspaper deliverers' strike, New York mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia read comic strips over the radio. Early Sunday strips filled an entire newspaper page. Later strips, such as The Phantom and Terry and the Pirates , were usually only half that size, with two strips to a page in full-size newspapers, such as

1200-408: The public may not see them, and making them integral to the plot would likely be wasteful. Exceptions to this rule include Steve Canyon and, until its last few years, On Stage , which are complete only in the third format. An alternative is to have a separate strip, a " topper " (though it may appear at the bottom), so with the topper it comprises a three-tier half-page, and without it comprises

1240-410: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Funnies . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Funnies&oldid=957070026 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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1280-660: The strip became, along with Tarzan of the Apes and Buck Rogers , one of the first adventure strips. However, Crane was an employee of the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate, which owned the rights to the Tubbs and Easy characters. Crane approached King Features with an idea for a new strip, and when they offered him ownership, he abandoned Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy in 1943, giving full concentration to launching Buz Sawyer . Crane remembered

1320-541: The strip. The duo continued as a team until 1983. When they retired, John Celardo drew the daily until it was discontinued on 7 October 1989. Schlensker, who fought with the Army Air Corps in East Asia during World War II, died in 1997 at the age of 82. His wife Virginia Schlensker said that "he loved to draw, and he loved action. That strip was his whole life". Roscoe Sweeney, Sawyer's comic-relief sidekick,

1360-512: The supplement produced in a comic book-like format, featuring the character The Spirit . These sixteen-page (later eight-page) standalone Sunday supplements of Will Eisner 's character (distributed by the Register and Tribune Syndicate ) were included with newspapers from 1940 through 1952. During World War II , because of paper shortages, the size of Sunday strips began to shrink. After the war, strips continued to get smaller and smaller, to save

1400-503: The three-tiered Hägar the Horrible Sunday strip in the same paper is 5" wide by 3 3 ⁄ 8 " deep. Buz Sawyer Buz Sawyer is a comic strip created by Roy Crane . Distributed by King Features Syndicate , it had a run from November 1, 1943 to October 7, 1989. The last strip signed by Crane was dated 21 April 1979. During World War II , the adventurous John Singer Sawyer, nicknamed Buz Sawyer, became

1440-624: Was carried in over a hundred Sunday newspapers. Roy Crane ended the Sunday comic in 1974. Roy Crane won the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1950 (when it was the Barney Award). He also won their Story Comic Book Award in 1965. The daily Buz Sawyer has been reprinted by Comics Art Showcase , Dragon Lady Press and Comics Revue . Manuscript Press has published two books collecting

1480-420: Was published as a full page in some newspapers until 1971. Shortly after the full-page Prince Valiant was discontinued, Hal Foster retired from drawing the strip, though he continued to write it for several more years. Manuscript Press published a print of his last Prince Valiant strip in full-page format; this was the last full-page comic strip, though it did not appear in that format in newspapers. During

1520-454: Was the first in which the dialogue, occasionally polysyllabic, flirted with adult irony. By 1906, the weekly Sunday comics supplement was commonplace, with a half-dozen competitive syndicates circulating strips to newspapers in every major American city. In 1923, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee , became among the first in the nation to acquire its own radio station, and it was

1560-560: Was the first strip to do this, followed by Outland and later Opus . The Reading Eagle is one of the few newspapers that still run half-page Sunday strips. Today, Slylock Fox & Comics for Kids is a popular example of a three tier half-page standard Sunday strip. In some cases today, the daily strip and Sunday strip dimensions are almost the same. For instance, a daily strip in The Arizona Republic measures 4 3 ⁄ 4 " wide by 1 1 ⁄ 2 " deep, while

1600-546: Was the lead character of the Buz Sawyer Sunday strip titled Buz Sawyer Featuring His Pal Roscoe Sweeney . It began November 23, 1943, and, at first, was about Sweeney and other gunners from the aircraft carrier Tippecanoe. After World War II Roscoe often worked on a farm with his sister Lucille near Indiantown , in Martin County, Florida . Sweeney kept looking for adventure, and in 1947 he enlisted in

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