Tag Archives: American comic strips
#CBS Special – “The Fantastic #Funnies” [with #LoniAnderson] – #WBBMTV (1980) #NewspaperComicStrips #ComicStrips
Ah, to read #comicstrips on the #newspaper page…. 🙂
And one of the first animated series I remember, one from a newspaper #newspapercomicstrip #comicstrip… 🙂
In the mid-70s, the various #Archie network Saturday morning cartoons from the late ’60s-early ’70s were combined to a weekday, second-run syndicated “wheel” called #TheArchies. One of those cartoons, #ArchiesTVFunnies, starred the #Archie gang #Archiegang as network TV operators/executives presenting animated versions of newspaper comic strips:
AUGUST 3rd UPDATE:

SEPTEMBER 7th UPDATE:
Little-Seen, Never-Aired 61-Year-Old (Authorized) Documentary on “Peanuts”
Wow! The team formed even earlier than I thought! This was before *all* of the films and TV specials!
You can find out about this documentary here.
Still Obsessed With “Maus”…….

….so I was happy to find out about and listen to this Graphic Policy Radio podcast. I was even happier to find out about this forthcoming book (and listen to another comics podcast with the author).
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