The Better Half, the Glossary
The Better Half is an American comic strip created by Bob Barnes.[1]
Table of Contents
13 relations: American Broadcasting Company, Andy Capp, Bob Barnes (cartoonist), Comic strip, Gag cartoon, Greasy spoon, James Coco, King Features Syndicate, Lily Tomlin, National Cartoonists Society, Randy Glasbergen, Register and Tribune Syndicate, Sitcom.
- 1956 comics debuts
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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Andy Capp
Andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe, seen in the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957. The Better Half and andy Capp are comics about married people and gag-a-day comics.
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Bob Barnes (cartoonist)
Robert Leslie Barnes (March 8, 1913 – November 12, 1970) Montreal Gazette (Nov. 14, 1970).
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Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
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Gag cartoon
A gag cartoon (also panel cartoon, single-panel cartoon, or gag panel) is most often a single-panel cartoon, usually including a caption beneath the drawing.
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Greasy spoon
A greasy spoon is a small, cheap restaurant typically specializing in short order fare.
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James Coco
James Emil Coco (March 21, 1930 – February 25, 1987) was an American stage and screen actor.
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King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, Inc. is an American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles, and games to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide.
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Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer.
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National Cartoonists Society
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.
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Randy Glasbergen
Randy Glasbergen (February 20, 1957 – August 11, 2015) was an American cartoonist and humorous illustrator best known for three decades of newspaper syndication as well as a freelance career.
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Register and Tribune Syndicate
The Register and Tribune Syndicate was a syndication service based in Des Moines, Iowa, that operated from 1922 to 1986, when it was acquired by King Features to become the Cowles Syndicate affiliate.
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Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
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See also
1956 comics debuts
- 91:an
- Baby Crockett
- Battler Britton
- Brides in Love
- Capitán Trueno
- Carol Day
- Fightin' Air Force
- Fightin' Army
- Fightin' Navy
- Gil Jourdan
- Ginger (comics)
- House of Secrets (DC Comics)
- Jet-Ace Logan
- Johnny Reb and Billy Yank (comic strip)
- Le Petit Nicolas
- Little Archie
- Marvelman Family
- Morty Meekle
- Pop, Dick and Harry
- Showcase (comics)
- Silver Age of Comic Books
- Sugar and Spike
- Tales of the Unexpected (comics)
- The Beezer
- The Better Half
- The Mysterious Traveler
- The Three Mouseketeers
- Timmy the Timid Ghost
- Western Gunfighters
- World of Fantasy
- Young Pillars