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The last Adam drawn by original cartoonist Brian Basset and the first drawn by current cartoonist Rob Harrell. The switch happened in February of 2009

No disrespect to Brian Basset, but I think was a positive change. The Adam character was becoming kind of one-note (obsessed with coffee) and sort of unpleasant (he seemed to sort of resent having to spend time with his kids), and Rob Harrell has made Adam a lot more whimsical.

Basset chose to focus on his other comic strip, Red and Rover, which won a Reuben Award for best comic strip in 2013 and is still running today.

u/Auir2blaze — 1 day ago
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Two decades before The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin explored a similar concept in Shoulder Arms (1918), where he disguises himself as a German officer

u/Auir2blaze — 5 days ago
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Seeta Devi was one of India's first film stars, starting in silent movies like A Throw of Dice (1929)

u/Auir2blaze — 9 days ago
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The first appearance of Nancy in "Fritzi Ritzi", from Jan. 2, 1933. Five years later the strip was renamed "Nancy"

u/Auir2blaze — 9 days ago
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Beetle Bailey was the last comic strip to be personally approved by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst

Hearst, today best remembered as the inspiration for Citizen Kane, was a fan of comics strips. In the 1890s he poached the Yellow Kid from rival publisher Joseph Pulitzer (giving rise to the term "yellow journalism"). He was also a big supporter of Krazy Kat.

The version of Beetle Bailey Hearst signed off on in 1950 was about a college student, it switched to being about the army the next year (which is also when Hearst died).

u/Auir2blaze — 11 days ago
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This strip is from 1960, when I think streetcars were already becoming an endangered species. At least he switched to carpooling, which is still more environmentally friendly than the average American commute.

I'm trying to figure out exactly when he made that switch. Also when he stopped wearing a hat to work.

u/Auir2blaze — 16 days ago
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Betty Compson in The White Shadow (1923). Alfred Hitchcock was an uncredited assistant director on this film

u/Auir2blaze — 17 days ago