Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by who, it chronicles the daily lives of five anthropomorphic animals, one being a Zebra?
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Pearls Before Swine (comics) Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis. It chronicles the daily lives of five anthropomorphic animals: a Pig, a Rat, a Zebra, a Goat, and a fraternity of crocodiles, as well as a number of supporting characters. Each character represents an aspect of Pastis' own personality and world view. The daily and Sunday comic strip is distributed by Universal Uclick (by United Media's United Feature Syndicate before 2011).
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Zebra Zebras ( or ) are several species of African equids (horse family) united by their distinctive black and white striped coats. Their stripes come in different patterns, unique to each individual. They are generally social animals that live in small harems to large herds. Unlike their closest relatives, horses and donkeys, zebras have never been truly domesticated.
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List of Terry and the Pirates comic strips Terry and the Pirates is an American comic strip that originally ran from October 22, 1934, until February 25, 1973. The daily and Sunday strips ran separate storylines until August 25, 1936. A revival series (re-imagining the strip and setting it in the current day) ran from March 26, 1995, until July 27, 1997.
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True-Life Adventures True-Life Adventures series is a collection of fourteen full length and short subject documentary films produced by Walt Disney Productions roughly between the years 1948 and 1960. The series won eight Academy Awards for the studio including three Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature awards for "The Living Desert", "The Vanishing Prairie" and "White Wilderness", and five Best Two Reel Live Action Short awards for "Seal Island", "In Beaver Valley", "Nature's Half Acre", "Water Birds", and "Bear Country". It inspired a daily panel comic strip that was distributed from 1955 to 1971 and drawn by George Wheeler. Several of the films were adapted in comic book format as one shots in the Dell Comics Four Color series. The films were among the earliest production experience for Roy E. Disney. Also this film series was the launching pad for Disney's new distributor, Buena Vista International. TV episodes are from Disney's anthology TV series.
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Billy Bounce Billy Bounce was a comic strip published erratically by noted illustrator W.W. Denslow (1901–1902; 1906) and later C.W. Kahles (1902–1905) between 1901 and 1906. The strip centers on the actions of the title character, a ball-shaped boy who is capable either of bouncing long distances or actual flight. It is noted as one of the earliest comic strips in which the protagonist has superpowers.
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Goofy Goofy is a funny-animal cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog with a Southern drawl, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and is one of Disney's most recognizable characters. He is normally characterized as extremely clumsy and dimwitted, yet this interpretation is not always definitive; occasionally Goofy is shown as intuitive, and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way.
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Rocky (comic strip) Rocky is a Swedish autobiographical comic strip created by Martin Kellerman, focusing on an anthropomorphic dog, Rocky, and his friends in their everyday life in Stockholm.
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Home and Away (comic strip) "Home and Away" is a comic strip written and drawn by Steve Sicula. He created it around age 40, after four or five other comic strips were rejected by publishers. It began in 2003 and was syndicated nationally by the Washington Post Writers Group.
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Fisher (comics) Fisher is a Canadian comic strip, which ran daily exclusively in "The Globe and Mail" from 1992 to September 2012. On 8 September 2012, the last strip was published in the Globe after the paper decided to drop the comic as part of a reorganization of the page. After its cancellation it restarted as a web only comic. In May 2013 the first book collection of Fisher strips was published by Nestlings Press in Toronto. Titled "When Tom Met Alison", it details the courtship of the two leading characters in the strip.
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VG Cats VG Cats (short for "Video Game Cats") is a webcomic written and drawn by Canadian cartoonist Scott Ramsoomair. Published on its own website, it features the adventures of a pair of anthropomorphic cats, who often play the roles of characters in popular video games that are parodied in the strip. Strips are usually presented in a large format and in full color. The author generally set Mondays as days for updating the comic; however, the update schedule has a reputation of being incredibly sporadic; he frequently mocks his tardiness in updating in various strips due to personal reasons and frequent convention appearances. As of October 2016, the site had approximately 369 comics listed in its main archives. Based on this archive alone, "VG Cats" averaged 25 comics a year while it was at its peak.
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Jungle Jim Jungle Jim is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media. The series began in 1934 as an American newspaper comic strip chronicling the adventures of Asia-based hunter Jim Bradley, who was nicknamed Jungle Jim. The character also trekked through radio, film, comic book and television adaptations. Notable was a series of films and television episodes in which Johnny Weissmuller portrayed the safari-suit wearing character, after hanging up his Tarzan loincloth. The strip was created by King Features Syndicate in order to
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Akwas Akwas by Mike Roy is a Sunday only adventure comic strip which ran from June 14, 1964, to March 28, 1965, and was syndicated through 1972. It featured the Native American character Akwas in realistic historical adventures set before Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas. The best format is the half page; the strip is also found in a third of a page and tabloid formats, which drop one or more panels. There were four stories: "Cricket Kidnapped", "The Dream Fast", "Mission to the Huron", and "Jessakid". Toward the end of the strip, as it appeared in fewer and fewer newspapers, Mike Roy attempted to revive interest by giving Akwas superpowers. The strip ended shortly after this. None of the stories have been reprinted, but one Akwas strip can be seen on the cover of Comics Revue #266.
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Carl E. Schultze Carl Emil Schultze (May 25, 1866 – January 18, 1939) was an American newspaper cartoonist best known for his popular "Foxy Grandpa" comic strip series. He drew the strip under the pseudonym Bunny, his childhood nickname. The "Bunny" signature was usually accompanied by a drawing of a rabbit.
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B.C. (comic strip) B.C. is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Johnny Hart. Set in prehistoric times, it features a group of cavemen and anthropomorphic animals from various geologic eras. "B.C." made its newspaper debut on February 17, 1958, and was among the longest-running strips still written and drawn by its original creator when Hart died at his drawing board in Nineveh, New York, on April 7, 2007.
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Horton Hatches the Egg Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1940 by Random House. The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who is tricked into sitting on a bird's egg while its mother, Mayzie, takes a permanent vacation to Palm Beach. Horton endures a number of hardships but persists, often stating, "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent!" Ultimately, the egg hatches, revealing an elephant-bird, a creature with a blend of Mayzie's and Horton's features.
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Vacation Time "Vacation Time" is a 33-page funny animal comic book story written, drawn, and lettered by Carl Barks. The story was first published by Four Color in "Vacation Parade" #1 (July 1950). The story stars Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. The story has been reprinted many times.
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Motley's Crew Motley's Crew was an American newspaper comic strip by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman with satirical social commentary. With readership spread among 250 newspapers in the United States alone, the comic strip acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans during its 23 years of operation.
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What the Duck What the Duck is a comic strip by Aaron Johnson. It started as a webcomic, with the first strip posted in July 2006. The strip has appeared as print in numerous photography magazines including "Amateur Photographer". It was picked up for syndication in 2008 by Universal Press Syndicate under the name "W. T. Duck".
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Mr. Jack Mr. Jack was an American comic strip by Jimmy Swinnerton which ran in William Randolph Hearst newspapers from about 1903 until 1935. He may be the first developed "funny animal" character, a type that has since become a staple in the comics medium. The series may also be one of the earliest spin-offs of another comic strip. The character of Mr. Jack, a philandering playboy tiger, emerged around 1898 in Swinnerton's earlier Hearst feature, The Little Tigers, which started in 1896.
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Tobias Seicherl Tobias Seicherl is the title character of a comic drawn by Viennese caricaturist Ladislaus Kmoch (alias Ludwig Kmoch, 1897–1971), a self-taught cartoonist. The comic appeared as a daily strip in the Austrian tabloid 'Das Kleine Blatt' published by Vorwärts-Verlag from October 5, 1930. Tobias Seicherl can be regarded as the first continental European daily comic strip.
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One Big Happy (comic strip) One Big Happy is a daily comic strip written and illustrated by Rick Detorie, detailing the daily adventures of a six-year-old girl named Ruthie. The strip also features her eight-year-old brother Joe, their parents Frank and Ellen, and their grandparents Nick and Rose, who live next door. The strip's title is a takeoff on the phrase, "One big happy family." It debuted on September 11, 1988. The strip takes place on Buena Vista Avenue and in an unspecified city based on Baltimore, Maryland, where the creator grew up. It is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
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Dr. Seuss bibliography Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, published over 60 children's books over the course of his long career. Though most were published under his well-known pseudonym, Dr. Seuss, he also authored over a dozen books as Theo. LeSieg and one as Rosetta Stone. As one of the most popular children's authors of all time, Geisel's books have topped many bestseller lists, sold over 222 million copies, and been translated into more than 15 languages. In 2000, when "Publishers Weekly" compiled their list of the best-selling children's books of all time; 16 of the top 100 hardcover books were written by Geisel, including "Green Eggs and Ham", at number 4, "The Cat in the Hat", at number 9, and "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish", at number 13, and "Dr. Seuss's ABC". In the years following his death in 1991, several additional books based on his sketches and notes were published, including "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!" and "Daisy-Head Mayzie". Although they were all published under the name Dr. Seuss, only "My Many Colored Days", originally written in 1973, was entirely by Geisel.