Dotty Dripple

Dotty Dripple
Author(s)	Jeff Keate (1944 only) Buford Tune (1944–1974)
Illustrator(s)	Jim McMenamy (1944 only)
Current status/schedule	Concluded
Launch date	June 26, 1944
End date	June 9, 1974
Syndicate(s)	Publishers Syndicate (1944–1967) Publishers-Hall Syndicate (1967–1974)
Genre(s)	humor

Dotty Dripple was an American gag-a-day comic strip, originally started by Jeff Keate & Jim McMenamy on June 26, 1944, but was taken over by Buford Tune on October 16, and continued for the next thirty years.[1] The strip was distributed by Publishers Syndicate and also appeared in comic book form.

Dotty Dripple was a domestic comedy strip, heavily modeled on Blondie, and ended on June 9, 1974.[2][3][4]

References

1. Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 134. ISBN 9780472117567.
2. Thompson, Maggie. Comics Shop (2010)
3. Phelps, Donald. Reading the Funnies: Essays on Comic Strips, pp. 145, 247 (2001) (referring to Dotty Dripple as among those strips which were "pillaging" Blondie)
4. These Top Cartoonists Tell How They Create America’s Favorite Comics Archived 2010-03-12 at the Wayback Machine (1964) (excerpt at comics.gearlive.com)

External links

• Dotty Dripple at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016.