Polly and Her Pals

Polly and Her Pals ( originally: Positive Polly) is the most famous comic strip of the American comic artist Cliff Sterrett. The directed at an adult audience humorous strip was published from 1912 to 1958 in various newspapers and was the first comic strip with a heroine.

Content

Title character is the pretty Polly, in contrast to the title, which literally means Polly and her friends are among the actors of the Strip is essentially not about the pretty Polly and her lover, but for her family. Skip to Main character to Polly's father, Sam Perkins, who is called Paw developed. Other characters are Polly's mother, Susie, called Maw, a cousin Polly's and a Japanese servant named Neewah who does not understand generally what it's straight.

Publications and draftsman

The first strip of Polly and Her Pals, which was ajar content on Sterretts Strip For This We Have Daughters, was published on December 4, 1912 under the title Positive Polly, the first Sunday page on December 28, 1913 under the title Here, gentlemen, is Polly! . During the day Strip was renamed after a few weeks in Polly and Her Pals, the Sunday strip ran for many years under the title Polly until he titled the days Strips got its final name in 1925.

Sterrett as the creator of the strips were the days Strip in the 1930s from health reasons to his assistant, Paul Fung. Sunday Strip, on whose side he also brought a number of other creations, Sterrett held up to its setting due to lack of reader interest in 1958. The daily strip was set in the year 1942.

In German-speaking countries published in 1991 in Carlsen Verlag under the title Polly two albums with selected Sunday pages of Polly and Her Pals from the years 1926 and 1927 or 1927 until 1929. Two other, previously announced albums with Sunday pages strips from the years 1929 to 1932 have not been published.

Awards and meaning

Sterrett Polly and Her Pals built in a variety of cubist, surrealist and expressionist elements and served as the inspiration of various artist colleagues, such as Martin Branner. In 2006, Polly and Her Pals was nominated for the Prix du patrimoine.