american comic strip appeared year span strip premise conceived stories artwork wrote strip years comic strips working women main character young woman support parents adopted brother serving reflection changing role women society ran newspapers decades translations strip sunday pages available europe focusing little brother gang originality longevity household icon inspiring pop art artist reprinted time face appeared cigar box lid retrospect seen comic strips new independent role american women world war publication history launched comic strip september running newspapers titled ran newspapers ended july years longest runs american comic strip history syndicate distributed comic strip felt character recognized contemporary role model 90s time strip carried handful newspapers characters story eponymous character young unmarried woman support parents making popular comic strip working women reflection new role women society seen comics writing associated_press noted women got vote joined work force family centered comics joined working girl strips like somebody drawn woman beginning politics social conscience drawing board years daily evolved simple gags complex humorous situations new character introduced form perry little boy adopted focus sunday pages shifted adventures perry home school streets compelled wear coat fancy clothes continued frequent old neighborhood local gang contrast wore torn clothing regarded member popularized catch phrase good boy major plot elements marriage engineer wright disappearance world war leaving pregnant realistic unfortunate situation newspapers dropped strip early pregnancy comic strip changed significantly years working fashion industry war seemingly widow husband returned decades took jobs endeavors years including stint artists employed number assistants including 1930s assistant young french author return europe created famous series assistant later created suffered stroke continued series later followed students finally veteran artist recalled years told days wrap felt terrible finished didn miss depressed lost good job didn miss maybe routine week didn miss lot good memories strip international spin offs translations adopted younger brother friends focus sunday pages europe sunday pages translated holland france local artists new comics perry number weekly pages longer sufficient dutch translated strip popular netherlands predecessor long running series france known published albums flanders belgium series directly inspired strip sunday page american comic published daily newspaper list appeared august lasted april beginning world war country perry hero renamed johnny allegedly group kids contemporary hollywood film series title adventurous johnny single christmas episode taking place published work unknown local authors albums collected stories published newspaper films movies produced written starring director awards received award archives houses collection original daily cartoons complete week year represented additional random cartoons year holdings daily cartoons display traces blue pencil tone brush pen ink illustration board measuring approximately inches volumes strip
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