Tag: Comic Strip
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This Day in Pop Culture for September 4
Mark Spitz won seven gold medals, The Price is Right debuted and Beetle Bailey began appearing in newspapers on this day.
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This Day in Pop Culture for June 30
1940: Brenda Starr is Hired During the mid 1920s, when Dalia Messick had just graduated from high school, she submitted her first comic strip, Weegee. It was rejected. Dalia attended the Art Institute of Chicago and later landed a job where she would design greeting cards. By the 1930s, Dalia submitted three more comic strips…
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This Day in Pop Culture for February 13
1979: First Patent Granted for Baldness Remedy After centuries of snake oils salesmen promising men a cure for baldness, it wasn’t until this day in 1979 for a patent to be granted. But the story begins back a lot earlier. In the 1950’s, the Upjohn Company (now owned by Pfizer) was working on a treatment…
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This Day in Pop Culture for January 17
1929: Popeye the Sailor Man Makes His First Appearance King Features’ comic strip, Thimble Theatre by E. C. Segar had been in existence for ten years before Popeye the Sailor Man was featured on this day in 1929. His first line, “’Ja think I’m a cowboy?!” He quickly became one of the strip’s most popular…
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