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Games Based On Newspaper Comic Strips
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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A list for games that draw their inspiration (in part, at least) from the imaginative denizens of the most important section of a newspaper. Some of the strips were derived from fiction (eg. Tarzan), and some were derived from film (eg. Felix the Cat), but most were original newspaper creations. What these strips all have in common is that they became famous strips (even though their subjects might have already been famous in another medium). The exception is this: no comic book superheroes are included here, even if they later became newspaper strips. There are other geeklists for that crazy stuff.
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Posted Mon May 29, 2006 4:54 pm
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the strip which ran from 1902 - 1920 by Richard F. Outcault. Outcault also created the famous comic The Yellow Kid. The year of publication listed on BGG for this game (1900) appears to be inaccurate and is probably just a wild guess. The game is a variation on Old Maid.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the strip created by Frank King in 1918. One of the truly great newspaper comics. And Skeezix is one of the truly great character names in comics! The game was published in 1927.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith created in 1919 by Billy DeBeck and taken over by Fred Lasswell in 1942.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the strip called Fritzi Ritz created by Larry Whittington in 1922, and the character Nancy created in 1933 by Ernie Bushmiller.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the popular animated feline star of a series of short films beginning in 1919. Felix got his own comic strip in 1923 drawn by Otto Messmer. The game was published in 1960.
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6.
Board Game: Popeye
[Average Rating:4.50 Unranked]
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Popeye the Sailor was created by Elzie Crisler Segar and first appeared in the comic strip Thimble Theatre in 1929. The strip itself, featuring characters such as Olive Oyl and her brother Castor Oyl, debuted in 1919. The game was published in 1983.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the strip created by Harold Gray in 1924. The game was published in 1927.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the character Anthony Rogers, created by Philip Francis Nowlan, who first appeared in two novellas published in Amazing Stories in 1928. The comic strip debuted in 1929 and ran continuously for 38 years. It was the first science fiction comic strip. The game was published in 1934.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Published in 1988.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Published in 1990.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Tarzan, of course, was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs and appeared in 24 novels by the author, but the character also provided inspiration for a long-running newspaper strip, which debuted in 1929, featuring such memorable talents as Hal Foster and Burne Hogarth. The game came free with the purchase of Weston's biscuits in 1933. It sounds like a rare one.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Published in 1977.
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Board Game: Tarzan
[Average Rating:3.00 Unranked]
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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This game might have been a promotional tie-in with the 1984 movie Greystoke starring Christopher Lambert.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the strip created by Murat Bernard "Chic" Young which has run continuously since 1930. The game was published in 1950.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Published in 1969.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the strip created by Chester Gould in 1931. The game was published in 1933.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Published in 1934. The design is credited to Chester Gould.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Published in 1990. This game appears to be a promotion tie-in with the Warren Beatty movie.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the prehistoric-themed strip created in 1933 by V.T. Hamlin. The game was published in 1937.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the Alex Raymond strip created in 1934. The game was published in 1977.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Fantasy author Lin Carter is a co-designer of this game, which was published in 1977.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on Al Capp's strip which ran from 1934 to 1977.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the strip created by Lee Falk in 1936. The game was published in 1966.
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Clinton Smith
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
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Based on the Arthurian-themed strip begun in 1937 by Hal Foster. The game, published in 1955, appears to be a promotional tie-in (though somewhat tardy, perhaps) with the 1954 Prince Valiant movie.
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Posted Mon May 29, 2006 3:18 pm
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Austin
Texas
Albuquerque
New Mexico
The superficial lameness and the formulaic art created a self-contained world without objective correlative. Its purely abstract existence daily lurched into absurdity through the characters' antics and then back into balance by means of the all-important gag. It was the anchoring effect of Bushmiller's imagery, and the motion itself, that mattered.
http://www.interestingideas.com/ii/nancy.htm
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Why Nancy?
Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip "Nancy" is a landmark achievement: A Comic so simply drawn it can be reduced to the size of a postage stamp and still be legible; an approach so formulaic as to become the very definition of the "gag-strip"; a sense of humor so obscure, so mute, so without malice as to allow faithful readers to march through whole decades of art and story without ever once cracking a smile.
Nancy is Plato's playground. Ernie Bushmiller didn't draw A tree, A house, A car. Oh, no. Ernie Bushmiller drew THE tree, THE house, THE car. Much has been made of the "three rocks." Art Spiegelman explains how a drawing of three rocks in a background scene was Ernie's way of showing us there were some rocks in the background. It was always three. Why? Because two rocks wouldn't be "some rocks." Two rocks would be a pair of rocks. And four rocks was unacceptable because four rocks would indicate "some rocks" BUT IT WOULD BE ONE ROCK MORE THAN WAS NECESSARY TO CONVEY THE IDEA OF "SOME ROCKS."
A Nancy panel is an irreduceable concept, an atom, and the comic strip is a molecule. With 5-Card Nancy we create new molecules out of Ernie's atoms.
Says Jerry Moriarty, artist of "Jack Survives": "I believe there is a formula of Hume, Humor and Humest. Ernie Bushmiller and I are Hume."
http://www.scottmccloud.com/inventions/nancy/nancy.html
Austin
Texas