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How they got their names (lemmy.world)

Unpublished First Peanuts Strip - Francesco Marciuliano (lemmy.world)

Godzilla in a 1930s screwball comedy starring Bette Davis (lemmy.world)

It was called Kaiju Always Hurt the One You Love and had a musical appearance by Cab Calloway singing a duet with Mothra.

Al Jaffee's parody of a Dennis the Menace strip in Mad Magazine (lemmy.world)

One of my favorite Mad bits ever.

Pogo - Walt Kelly - 1968 (lemmy.world)

Han is the man (lemmy.world)

(Title works better if you pronounce ‘Han’ the way Billy Dee Williams does.)

Ernie Pook's Comeek - Lynda Barry (lemmy.world)

Lynda Barry’s slice of life comic strips are an acquired taste, but as one of the rare female comic strip artists with major distribution, she deserves to be celebrated....

Zippy the Pinhead - "Hello Zippy, Goodbye Kitty" - Bill Griffith - 1983 (lemmy.world)

One million years from now... (lemmy.world)

Thimble Theater - Elzie Segar - 1930 (lemmy.world)

Segar and Thimble Theater are most famous for introducing Popeye, but before the sailor man took over the strip, the heroes were Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy, his sister Olive’s boyfriend, here seen stealing an especially useless horse.

Jesus and His Gang on a Hot Day - "Foolbert Sturgeon" aka Frank Stack - 1964 (lemmy.world)

Frank Stack is probably most well-known today for illustrating much of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor and Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner’s graphic novel Our Cancer Year. He has been a cartoonist in the underground scene for decades, ever since he befriended the much more well-known Gilbert Shleton (creator of The...

Odd Bodkins - 1960s (lemmy.world)

This is one of the rarer standalone strips. The majority were one of the most crazy continuing storylines ever, partially summed up on the Wikipedia page for the strip collection:...