Posted on 05/13/2010 8:53:32 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Leapin' lizards!
After 86 years in the Daily News' comics, there are no more tomorrows for "Little Orphan Annie." The plucky redhead with the saucer-shaped eyes appears in her final newspaper strip on Sunday, June 13.
"It's kind of painful," said cartoonist Ted Slampyak, who started drawing Annie, Sandy and Daddy Warbucks six years ago. "It's almost like mourning the loss of a friend."
The strip's debut came on Aug. 5, 1924, exclusively in the Daily News. Cartoonist Harold Gray, who created the character, drew her until his death in 1968. Daddy Warbucks' adopted daughter starred in a radio series in 1930, a Broadway smash in 1977 and a $35 million movie in 1982.
Tribune Media Services reluctantly decided to cancel the cartoon, which was running in less than 20 newspapers - including The News.
Hey Kids here is a sercert message from Annie herself!
Annie’s Secret Mesage
A Flying, Stinging Insect ______
A Slang Term for ‘Yes’ or ‘Certainly’_____
Twenty Two Divided By Eleven________
T-Pain is Going to Buy You One of These_______
That Coelacanth Belongs to You. It is ____ Coelacanth.
An Elongated Circle _____
A Term Used to Describe People Between the Ages of 13 and 19________
“...a crummy commercial!”—Ralphie, A Christmas Story :)
Another classic gone.
SONOFABITCH!
I never get tired of watching that movie. Ralphie’s Dad and my own were casted from the same mold!
It’s a hard-knock life.
even worse the F _ _ _ WORD! I learned that one from Schwartz.
It’s a Hard Knock Life
Needs to be updated.. call it “Little Orphan Marxist”.. or “Little Orphan Maoist”.. or “Little Orphan Ludvila”..
Ludvila
The sun’ll come out
in Utopia
Bet your bottom dollar
That in Utopia
There’ll be sun!
Just thinkin’ about
in Utopia
Clears away the cobwebs,
And Bankrupcy
‘Til there’s none!
When I’m stuck with a day
That’s gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh
The sun’ll come out
in Utopia
So ya gotta hang on
‘til we’re in Utopia
Come what may
in Utopia!
in Utopia!
I love ya
for Utopia!
You’re always
A day
A way!
Ovaltine = Capt. Midnight! for those of us who remember wood and tube radios made in the USA.
Another classic gone, my favorite cartoons were little Abner, Dick Tracy and Terry and the Pirates. I guess they’re all gone by now.
Am guessing they never showed her listening to an mp3 player or going on facebook...
have taken tour of Christmas Story House, in Cleveland
The horse laugh is that Tribune Media Services syndicates the strip, but The Chicago Tribune doesn’t run it.
"WHAAAAAAT.......WHAAAAAAAT......WHAAAAAT"
Nostalgia ping
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