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Encyclopedia > Frank and Ernest (comic strip)
'Frank and Ernest'
Author(s) Bob Thaves
Tom Thaves
Current status / schedule Running
Launch date November 6, 1972
Syndicate(s) Newspaper Enterprise Association
Genre(s) Humor, Satire

Frank and Ernest is a comic strip created and illustrated by Bob Thaves and later Tom Thaves[1]. It debuted on November 6, 1972, and has since been published daily in over 1,200 newspapers. Cosette Dwyer is an amazing author. ... Bob Thaves, also known as Robert Thaves, (born 1924 in USA) is the creator of the comic strip Frank and Ernest which began in 1972. ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Look up syndication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... United Media is large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. ... The webcomic genres are the types of themes a webcomic can take. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Bob Thaves, also known as Robert Thaves, (born 1924 in USA) is the creator of the comic strip Frank and Ernest which began in 1972. ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...


Regardless of the topic, everything related to the topic (background and phrases) is shown in a single frame. Thaves won the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1983, 1984, and 1986 for his work on the strip. Other awards include the Mencken Award for Free Speech and Bob Thaves' Frank and Ernest work was recognized by the American Creativity Association in 2006. The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ...


Frank and Ernest has a tradition of breaking new ground. It was the first panel presented in a strip format, the first to use block lettering and it was among the first - if not the first - to have its main characters able to be seen not just as humans but as animals, vegetables, minerals and more, and to have a non-sequential story. More recently, Frank and Ernest was the first strip to use digital coloring for its Sunday cartoons, the first strip in over 1,000 newspapers to list the creator's e-mail address and its website broke a lot of ground in 1997: first interactive comics based on strips published in the newspaper, first keyword searchable archive for a comic strip, and first 3-D characters.


Word play has been a constant element in the strip. Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. ...


Bob Thaves died on August 1, 2006. His son, Tom Thaves, will take over in producing the comic strip. [2] August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...


References

  1. ^ http://frankandernest.com/faq.html#info
  2. ^ http://frankandearnest.com/link.html

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