A Little Lulu comic book

Little Lulu is a comic strip character, created by Marjorie Henderson Buell. Little Lulu first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel comic strip, appearing in her debut as a flower girl at a wedding, strewing the aisle with banana peels. The strip ran until 1948. Original Little Lulu cartoons were also used frequently in Pepsi magazine ads throughout the 1940s. Lulu was also the centerpiece of an extensive advertising campaign for Kleenex tissues during the 1940s and 1950s. Image File history File links Lulu_cover. ... Image File history File links Lulu_cover. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904–1993) was an American cartoonist and the creator of Little Lulu. ... There have been many publications called the Saturday Evening Post; several were/are local British newspapers. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Flower girl A flowergirl is a participant in a wedding procession. ... Nubian wedding with some international modern touches, near Aswan, Egypt Preparing for the photographs, at a wedding in Thornbury Castle, England A traditional Japanese wedding ceremony A wedding is a ceremony which celebrates the beginning of a marriage. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Pepsi-Cola, commonly called Pepsi, is a soft drink produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ... The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... An advertising campaign is a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC). ... Kleenex logo This article is about the Kleenex brand. ... // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ...

Supporting characters in the comic include her friends Tubby Tompkins (who later got his own short-lived comic book series), Annie, Iggy, Gloria, Wilber Van Snobbe, Alvin, Ol' Witch Hazel, and Li'l Itch. Lulu's last name is Moppet.

Character history

A daily comic strip, entitled Little Lulu, was syndicated from June 5, 1950 through May, of 1969. Artists included Roger Armstrong, Randy Henderson and Woody Kimbrell. June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

Also during this time, Little Lulu appeared in 10 issues of Dell Comics' Four Color comic book series (#74, 97, 110, 115, 120, 131, 139, 146, 158, 165), before graduating to her own title: Marge's Little Lulu. With the Dell Comics/Western Publishing split that created Gold Key Comics, Little Lulu went to Gold Key with issue #165. Upon retirement, Marge sold Little Lulu to Western Publishing (the comic was re-named Little Lulu with #207 September, 1972). Publication of the comics ceased in 1984 (with issue #268, the last few under the "Whitman Comics" name), when Western discontinued publishing comics. Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publications, which got its start in pulp magazines. ... One of the earlier issues of Four Color, featuring Walt Disneys Donald Duck. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publications, which got its start in pulp magazines. ... This is a page about the company Western Publishing. ... Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing cteated for comic books distributed to newstands. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

John Stanley

Writer/artist John Stanley's work on the Little Lulu comic book is highly regarded. He did the initial Lulu comics, later working with artist Irving Tripp, writing and laying out the stories. He continued working on the comic until c. 1961. Stanley is responsible for the many additional characters in the stories. His work has been collected in a series of hardcovers books by Gladstone Publishing in the 1980s. Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ...

After Stanley, the writers who produced Lulu stories for Gold Key was Arnold Drake. Arnold Drake was an American writer of comic books notable for his work on Deadman, for which he was given the Bill Finger Award, and on Doom Patrol. ...

Chief characters

• Lulu Moppet. Lulu was the titular character, and was often the ringleader of the girls. As such, she is their leader of their less formal club. Her best friend is Annie.

• George and Martha Moppet. Lulu's mother and father.

• Gertie Greenbean. Gertie is a friend of Lulu's and is spoken of often. Her first appearance showed her sticking up for Lulu against snobby Wilbur. In an attempt to get even with her, he shamelessly used his father's influence in the community to have her mother (Gertie and her mother lived in a trailer house) moved outside of town, but Gertie didn't realize this. She thought her mother had run off (her mother allowed her to stay at Lulu's house, and didn't know her address); and had begun to cry. When Wilbur taunted her about this, the two got into a fight (she was a tomboy) and beat him up. She sent him off crying, and she and her mother reunited.

• Tubby Tompkins. Tubby, whose real name is Thomas, is Lulu's friend and occasional foil. He has helped Lulu many times, and has tormented her just as much. His closest friends are Eddie, Willy and Iggy, who happens to be Annie's younger brother. When they are together, they can be as mean to Lulu as any boy would. His parents have less patience with his antics than Lulu's parents were with her. As the junior detective, later nicknamed "the Spider", he has helped Lulu get out of hot water when she is punished for something that her father has done.

• Wilbur Van Snobbe. The typical and very snobby rich kid who antagonizes not just Lulu, but everyone else, as he thinks he is superior than his peers. One of his least endearing traits is the patronizing way that he treats his servants, which cause him to be referred to as "brat!" (At first, his name was "Van Snobble", but was later accepted as Van Snobbe.)

• Annie. Lulu's best friend and occasional co-conspirator in her schemes to best the boys. She is the sister of Iggy and the two were often at each other's throats. They have a grandfather named Grandpa Feeb.

• Willy Wilkins; Eddie Stimson and Iggy. Tubby's friends and co-horts, in their club. They are the ones who usually torment Lulu and the other girls. Sometimes, they turn the tables on Tubby, who seems to not pay his club dues on a frequent basis. Willy is the president and Eddie is usually the treasurer.

• Gloria. Her last name varied with the stories, as was not unusual with some of the characters, but was often connected with Wilbur, as she was more in the same economic strata as he was. She would use Tubby in order to make Wilbur jealous, and vice versa.

• Alvin Jones. The little boy who is younger than Lulu and is often vexing towards her and her family. To placate the troublesome Alvin, Lulu usually tells him stories, often starring Lulu and her mother, as a poor family who usually tries to make ends meet with little. Later on, the wicked Witch Hazel and her equally evil niece, Little Itch, became the antagonists of the stories. Alvin himself has a brother named Cedric, who torments him, as he torments Lulu.

• Miss Feeny. The kids' Fourth grade teacher. She is popular and the kids love her. She appreciates Lulu, as she is one of the top students in her class.

• Mr. Ernest. The school's principal. He is usually seen yelling at Mr. McNabbem.

• Mr. Clarence McNabbem and Mr. Timothy Googins. The school district's incompetent truant officers. Mr. Googins was married with children, and was never able to catch a hooky player. His replacement, Mr. McNabbem, wasn't constrained by marriage, but was even worse than his Googins. He, (as well as Googins), always framed Lulu for hooky playing when she was given a legitimate reason to leave the school. For this, both often earned the wrath of Mr. Ernest.

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In other media

In the mid-1940s, Lulu appeared in a series of theatrical animated shorts produced by Famous Studios for Paramount from 1943 to 1948. In all, 26 Little Lulu cartoons were released in a period of less than five years. According to Don Markstein's Toonpedia, a similar character, Little Audrey, was then created after Paramount failed to renew the Lulu licence (and therefore avoided the payment of royalty fees). The voice of both Little Lulu and Little Audrey was supplied by actress Mae Questel, who was best known as the cartoon voice of both Betty Boop and Olive Oyl (in the Popeye movies. Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... Famous Studios was the animation studio owned by Paramount Pictures after the company foreclosed on Fleischer Studios and ousted Max and Dave Fleischer in 1942. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Little Audrey is a fictional character, appearing in Paramount Pictures Famous Studios cartoons from 1947 to 1959. ... A royalty is a sum paid to the creator of performance art for the use of that art. ... Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress and voice artist. ... Betty Boop from the opening title sequence of the earliest entries in the Betty Boop Cartoons Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures. ... Olive Oyl in Little Swee Pea (1936). ... A Popeye comic book cover shows Popeye, with his characteristic corncob pipe and single good eye, and his girlfriend Olive Oyl. ...

The Paramount Little Lulu cartoons were sold to U.M.&M. T.V. Corp. in 1956, along with many other Paramount shorts. National Telefilm Associates purchased U.M.&M. not long afterward, and syndicated them to television. These cartoons were released by NTA on home video in the 1980s. Today, theatrical rights are once again held by Paramount (via NTA successor, Republic Pictures), while Republic licensee Lions Gate Home Entertainment holds video rights, although any sort of DVD reissue has yet to be announced. CBS Paramount Television holds TV rights. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... National Telefilm Associates (otherwise known by its initials, NTA) was an independent distribution company that handled much of Paramount Pictures animated library. ... The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Republic Pictures Corporation (aka Republic Entertainment) is an independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B pictures, westerns and movie serials. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Lions Gate Films. ... DVD (commonly Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... CBS Paramount Television (formerly Desilu Productions, Paramount Television, among other companies) is an American television production/distribution company that was formed on January 17, 2006 by CBS Corporation. ...

Little Lulu has starred in several TV animated cartoon series. In 1976, Japan's Nippon Animation studio produced the 26-episode Little Lulu to Chicchai Nakama (Little Lulu and Her Little Friends); this series was dubbed into English and released in the United States by ZIV International It was very popular in Latin America, in its Spanish-dubbed version. An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Nippon Animation (日本アニメーション) is a Japanese animation studio. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

In 1995, Lulu again appeared in The Little Lulu Show on HBO. It was voiced by Tracey Ullman. The series was produced by Canada's Cinar Films. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Little Lulu Show was an animated television series, based on the Marjorie Henderson Buell comic book character Little Lulu. ... For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... Tracey Ullman Tracey Ullman (born 30th December 1959) is a British comedienne, actress, singer, dancer, screenwriter, and author, who is most famous for being the host of her eponymous variety television show. ... The present logo of The Cookie Jar Company. The Cookie Jar Company (formerly CINAR) is a Canadian producer of childrens animated television programs. ...

Dark Horse reprints

In 2004, Dark Horse Comics obtained the rights to reprint the Little Lulu comics. Thirteen volumes have been published through the end of 2006. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dark Horse Comics logo Dark Horse Comics is one of the largest independent American comic book publishers, behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

1. My Dinner with Lulu ISBN 1-59307-318-6 (reprints Four Color Comics #74, 97, 110, 115, 120)
2. Sunday Afternoon ISBN 1-59307-345-3 (reprints Four Color Comics #131, 139, 146, 158)
3. In The Doghouse ISBN 1-59307-345-3 (reprints Four Color Comics #165 and Little Lulu #1-5)
4. Lulu Goes Shopping ISBN 1-59307-270-8 (reprints Little Lulu #6-12)
5. Lulu Takes a Trip ISBN 1-59307-317-8 (reprints Little Lulu #13-17)
6. Letters to Santa ISBN 1-59307-386-0 (reprints Little Lulu #18-22)
7. Lulu's Umbrella Service ISBN 1-59307-399-2 (reprints Little Lulu #23-27)
8. Late for School ISBN 1-59307-453-0 (reprints Little Lulu #28-32)
9. Lucky Lulu ISBN 1-59307-471-9 (reprints Little Lulu #33-37)
10. All Dressed Up ISBN 1-59307-534-0 (reprints Little Lulu #38-42)
11. April Fools ISBN 1-59307-557-X (reprints Little Lulu #43-48)
12. Leave it to Lulu ISBN 1-59307-620-7 (reprints Little Lulu #49-53)
13. Too Much Fun ISBN 1-59307-621-5 (reprints Little Lulu #54-58)
14. Queen Lulu ISBN 1-59307-683-5 (reprints Little Lulu #59-63)
15. The Explorers ISBN 1-59307-684-3 (in April, reprints Little Lulu #64-68)

• Little Lulu Color Special ISBN 1-59307-613-4

See Also

• The Little Lulu Show

The Little Lulu Show was an animated television series, based on the Marjorie Henderson Buell comic book character Little Lulu. ...

References

• Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077-0-1.

External links

• Toonopedia: Little Lulu
• HBO: The Little Lulu Show
• San Diego Union Tribune: "Little Lulu still frolics with pals at age 70"
• HoLLywood Eclectern--Little Lulu fanzine
• Little Lulu Fan page
• Michele's Little Lulu Page
• Friends of Lulu
• Gallery of Advertisements featuring Little Lulu