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Comic Strip Trivia Questions and Answers

Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, comic strips were published in what?
A: Newspapers.

They were published with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in what?
A: Daily newspapers.

Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences and in special what?
A: Color comics sections.

There were how many different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century?
A: More than 200.

In the late 1920s, comic strips expanded to feature what?
A: Adventure stories, as seen in Popeye, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, and others.

Soap-opera continuity strips such as Judge Parker and Mary Worth gained popularity in what decade?
A: The 40s.

Comic strips have appeared in what American magazines?
A: Liberty and Boys' Life and also on the front covers of magazines.

 

Storytelling using "what" has existed through history?
A: A sequence of pictures.

Where were some of the first satirical or humorous sequential narrative drawings were produced?
A: 19th-century Germany and in 18th-century England.

When did the first newspaper comic strips appear in North America?
A: In the late 19th century.

Who is considered the father of the modern comic strip?
A: The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer.

In 1865, the German painter, author and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created what comic strip?
A:  Max and Moritz, about two trouble-making boys, which had a direct influence on the American comic strip.

German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, created what in 1897?
A: The Katzenjammer Kids.

Familiar comic-strip iconography such as stars for pain and speech balloons originated in whose comic strip?
A: Rudolph Dirks' strip.

 

Hugely popular, Katzenjammer Kids occasioned one of the first what?
A: Comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium.

What did Dirks rename his version?
A:  Hans and Fritz (later, The Captain and the Kids).

The Little Bears (1893–96) was the first American comic with what?
A: Recurring characters.

Who was the first to include a color comic supplement?
A:  Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892.

The New York Journal's first color Sunday comic pages were in what year?
A: 1897.

On January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation's first what?
A: Full daily comic page in his New York Evening Journal.

Newspaper comic strips come in what two different types?
A: Daily strips and Sunday strips.

 

Most newspaper comic strips are what?
A: Syndicated; a syndicate hires people to write and draw a strip and then distributes it to many newspapers for a fee.

During the 1930s, the original art for a daily strip could be drawn as large as what?
A:  25 inches wide by six inches high.

The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often what?
A: Clipped and saved.

The daily Peanuts was a strip, and the daily Dennis the Menace is a what?
A: Single panel.

During World War II, why did the size of Sunday strips begin to shrink?
A: Because of paper shortages.

After the war, strips continued to get smaller and smaller because of what?
A: Increased paper and printing costs.

What was the last full-page comic strip?
A: The Prince Valiant strip for 11 April 1971.

 
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