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Shoe. (comic strip) Shoe is an American comic strip about a motley crew of newspapermen, all of whom are birds. It was written and drawn by its creator, cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, from September 13, 1977, [ 2] until his death in 2000. MacNelly's last strip was dated July 9, 2000; [ 3] it has since been continued by Chris Cassatt, Gary Brookins ...
Jeff MacNelly. Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly (September 17, 1947 – June 8, 2000) was an American editorial cartoonist [ 1] and the creator of the comic strip Shoe. After Shoe had been established in papers, MacNelly created the single-panel strip Pluggers. The Wall Street Journal wrote: "MacNelly's superb draftsmanship as well as his heightened ...
Mary Jane, Tige. Buster and Tige, cropped from a 1906 political cartoon ("Hoist" refers to William Randolph Hearst in rustic New York accent .) Buster Brown is a comic-strip character created in 1902 by Richard F. Outcault. Adopted as the mascot of the Brown Shoe Company in 1904, Buster Brown, along with Mary Jane, and with his dog Tige, became ...
Genre (s) Humor, Gag-a-day. Pluggers is a comic panel created by Jeff MacNelly (creator of Shoe) in 1993 that relies on reader submissions (referred to as "Pluggerisms") for the premise of each day's panel. In the context of this strip, "pluggers" are defined as rural, blue-collar workers who live a typical working-class American lifestyle ...
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Bizarro. (comic strip) Bizarro is a single- panel cartoon written and drawn by American cartoonist Dan Piraro and later by cartoonist Wayne "Wayno" Honath. The cartoon specializes in surrealist humor and at times is slightly cryptic in its humor. The creator often includes hidden symbols in the drawing which refer to inside jokes or other elements.
Genre (s) Humor, drama. Funky Winkerbean was an American comic strip by Tom Batiuk. Distributed by North America Syndicate, a division of King Features Syndicate, it appeared in more than 400 newspapers worldwide. While Batiuk was a 23-year-old middle school art teacher in Elyria, Ohio, he began drawing cartoons while supervising study hall.
Fearless Fosdick. Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick is featured in a Li'l Abner Sunday sequence from April 3, 1960. Fearless Fosdick is a long-running parody of Chester Gould 's Dick Tracy. It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp 's satirical hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–1977).