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July 29, 1985. Syndicate (s) Newspaper Enterprise Association. Genre (s) Humor, Gag-a-day. Arlo and Janis is an American gag-a-day comic strip written and drawn by Jimmy Johnson. It is a leisurely paced domestic situation comedy. It was first published in newspapers on July 29, 1985.
Beginning in 1985, Johnson drew Arlo and Janis for national syndication by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Johnson said, "At the time I sold Arlo & Janis to the newspaper syndicate United Media in 1985, there were a lot of 'talking animal' strips. Newspaper editors reacted to this by demanding more comic strips about human beings ...
The Arlo and Janis strip for April 1, 1998, references the event; the first two panels are blank, with the last two panels comprising Janis telling Arlo that no such similar event would take place in 1998 and Arlo informing her that Dagwood Bumstead "misunderstood entirely". [citation needed]
To make room for the new strips, these nine will no longer be printed in the daily newspaper: Grand Avenue, Baldo, Crankshaft, Between Friends, Arlo and Janis, Curtis, Mutts, Luann and Marvin.
Bringing Up Father is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it ran for 87 years, from January 2, 1913, to May 28, 2000. The strip was later titled Jiggs and Maggie (or Maggie and Jiggs), after its two main characters. According to McManus, he introduced these same characters in ...
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) [1] is an American folk singer-songwriter. [2] ... One of the title characters in the comic strip Arlo and Janis is named after ...
The comics section will undergo changes in The Jackson Sun.
Crankshaft is a comic strip about a character by the same name — an older, curmudgeonly school bus driver —which debuted on June 8, 1987. Written by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Dan Davis, [ 2] Crankshaft is a spin-off from Batiuk's comic strip Funky Winkerbean. [ 3] Prior to April 2, 2017, the strip was drawn by Chuck Ayers.