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The first thing that catches your eye when you unfold the morning paper is the funny cartoon strip featuring your favorite cartoon character. Comic strip characters ensure light hearted entertainment. They make young as well as old laugh or smile with delight. Comic characters are as entertaining as any other animated character. As a matter of fact many people prefer comic cartoon character over any other animated character. You may think that you know it all about your favorite comic characters, however, there are many untold or lesser known facts about them that will leave you astonished and amused as well.
The earliest cartoon strip, named The Yellow Kid first appeared in the New York Journal in 1896. In 1991, this strip was included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative US postage stamps. The funny Silly Symphonies was the first color Disney comic strip. Popeye as we all know him today in the form of animated cartoon character was initially a comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1919. The longest running newspaper comic strip is The Katzenjammer Kids, it was first published in 1897 and still is in publication.
Peanuts illustrated and written by Charles Schulz is a cartoon strip that is liked by all. Did you know that it is also the most syndicated comic strip. It has until now appeared in about 2,620 different news papers in 75 different countries and translated into 21 languages. The strip ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 the day after Schulz's death. The father of Charlie Brown the lead character in Peanuts was a barber. Peanuts characters Lucy and Linus are brother and sister, they have another little brother named Rerun. Rerun sometimes plays left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team. Talking about brother-sister comic strip characters, Did you know that Beetle from the comic strip Beetle Baileyand Lois from the comic strip Hi and Lois are brother and sister?
Get a load of this! There are not one but two comic strips by the name of Dennis the Menace. The US Dennis the Menace wears red dungaree and has a dog named ruff. Whereas the black haired UK Dennis the Menace has a dog named Gnasher, a spider named Dasher and a pig called Rasher. Hobbes originally had pads on his hands and feet but the creator Bill Waterson found them too distracting and removed them.
Any funny cartoon strip will have such wild yet true facts about them. Once you start looking at their life history you would yourself discover more many untold facts about them. Another fact is that Dido and Yappy are the cutest and most adorable comic strip characters. Enter their world to have a gala time with them.
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