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comic strip. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | The immediate ancestor of the newspaper comic strip was the cartoon, especially popular in the late 19th cent. |
 | | With the creation of such pioneering strips as Happy Hooligan (1899), by Frederick Burr Opper, Charles (Bunny) Schultzes Foxy Grandpa (1900), Outcaults Buster Brown (1902), and James Swinnertons Little Jimmy (1905), all the essential components of the comic strip (e.g., regularity of cast, use of sequence of panels, and speech-balloons) were refined and securely established. |
 | | Book-length fiction in comic strip form has acquired a sizable adult readership in Japan, in the novelas of many Spanish-speaking countries, and in the wide variety of 147;graphic novels; popular in the United States at the end of the 20th cent. |
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