Comic Strips Started in the 1970s - Doonesbury, Garfield, Zippy the Pinhead, for Better or for Worse, Footrot Flats, Howard the Duck (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Doonesbury, Garfield, Zippy the Pinhead, For Better or For Worse, Footrot Flats, Howard the Duck, Motley's Crew, Funky Winkerbean, Hagar the Horrible, Life in Hell, Cathy, Beau Peep, Wicked Wanda, Steel Claw, Jack, Jacky and the Juniors, Ogri, Billy's Boots, Broom-Hilda, Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec, Heathcliff, Love Is..., Shoe, Gnorm Gnat, Tank McNamara, Farley, Nick Carter, Drabble, Conchy, Herman, AXA, Sam and Silo, Frank and Ernest, The World's Greatest Superheroes, The Academia Waltz, Airtight Garage, Buddy Longway, Momma, Ivor Lott and Tony Broke, Supernatural Law, Sally Forth, Latigo, Kid Chameleon, The Fosdyke Saga, Star Hawks, Nature's Way, Sweeny Toddler, Agatha Crumm, Brickman, John Darling, X-Ray Specs, Faceache, Inside Woody Allen, Cattivik, The Bumpkin Billionaires, Torkan, Captain Goodvibes, Snake Tales, Doctor Smock, Genius, Fuss Pot, Sweet Tooth, Cecil C. Addle, Kelly & Duke, Friday Foster, Teacher's Pet, Lazy Bones, Dry Bones, Crock, Tricky Dicky. Excerpt: Howard the Duck is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, "funny animal" trapped on human-dominated Earth. Howard's adventures are generally social satires, while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium. The book is existentialist, and its main joke, according to Gerber, is that there is no joke: "that life's most serious moments and most incredibly dumb moments are often distinguishable only by a momentary point of view." This is diametrically opposed to screenwriter Gloria Katz, who in adapting the comic to the screen declared, "It's a film about a d...