You Mean We Can Use Characters From Other Comic Strips?
About a year ago, ILT ran a few examples of Sam's Strip, a newspaper comic strip that knew it was a newspaper comic strip. Created by Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas, Sam's Strip was syndicated by King Features, which was worried from the outset that Sam's Strip was too esoteric, featured too many in-jokes, and that no one would recognize the old comic characters tha
t made 'guest appearances.'
But it was brilliant. Some enterprising publisher (are you listening, Fantagraphics and Dark Horse?) should reprint the entire run.
UPDATE: The book is coming out!
Sam's Strip
And our friends at Fantagraphics are doing it, meaning it will be done well.
Click to enlarge the sample strips below.
Labels: Blondie, Dagwood, Dumas, Happy Hooligan, Krazy Kat, Sam's Strip, Snuffy Smith, Walker
posted by Don at
11:53 AM
2 Comments:
Thanks for posting these.
There was a book collection of the entire run of the strip, I belive, called SAM'S STRIP LIVES. The book is very rare. There's a copy over at the Ohio State Cartoon Research Library. I read the entire book while I was there and I laughed my head off the whole time.
SAM'S STRIP is one of the all-time funniest comic strips ever drawn. I would rank it among PEANUTS, KRAZY KAT, POGO and any of the other comics it parodied. It's certainly my favorite of Mort Walker's works.
My personal favorite SAM'S STRIP is the one where Alphonse and Gaston start beating each other up, gleefully saying that this is what they've been wanting to do for years. Has anyone seen this?
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Anonymous, At
September 23, 2008 at 9:21 PM
According to Amazon, Fantagraphics is coming out with a Sam's Strip collection soon:
http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Strip-Mort-Walker/dp/1560979720/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=ICIQT5FN43D37&colid=1VU0DDATR8VRT
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James Langdell, At
September 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM
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