Age of comic strips .281920s.E2.80.931930s.29 Canadian comics
jimmy frise s birdseye center (later juniper junction) longest-running strip in english canada
canadian cartoonists found hard succeed in field of comic strips without moving us, in 1921, jimmy frise, 1 of ernest hemingway s drinking buddies during journalist s days in toronto, sold life s little comedies toronto star s star weekly. strip later retitled birdseye center, , became longest-running strip in english canadian history. in 1947, frise brought strip montreal standard, renamed juniper junction. nova scotia-born artist j. r. williams single-panel strip rural , small-town life, out our way, began in 1922 , syndicated in 700 newspapers @ peak.
two new comic strips appeared on same day in 1929 in american newspapers , fed public s desire escapist entertainment @ dawn of great depression. first non-humorous adventure strips, , both adaptations. 1 buck rogers; other, tarzan, halifax native hal foster, had worked illustrator catalogues eaton s , hudson s bay company before moving in late 20s. other adventure strips followed , paved way genre diversity seen in comic strips in 1930s. in 1937, foster began own strip, prince valiant, has become best-known work foster s dextrous, realistic artwork. after struggling support himself @ various toronto-based publications, richard taylor, under pen name ric , became regular @ new yorker , relocated us, pay , opportunities cartoonists better.
the toronto telegram began run men of mounted in 1933, first home-grown adventure strip, written ted mccall , drawn harry hall. mccall later penned strip robin hood , company, made appearance in comic books when mccall founded anglo-american publishing in 1941.
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