Betty Boop and Felix
Appearance
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Author(s) | The Walker Brothers |
Current status/schedule | Daily and Sunday; concluded |
Launch date | November 19, 1984 |
End date | January 31, 1988 |
Syndicate(s) | King Features Syndicate |
Genre(s) | Humor, Talking Animal |
Betty Boop and Felix is a newspaper comic strip starring Betty Boop and Felix the Cat, which ran from November 19, 1984, to January 31, 1988.[1] It was written by Mort Walker's sons Brian, Morgan, Greg and Neal, who signed their work as "The Walker Brothers".
Debuting at the height of Garfield's popularity, this King Features Syndicate strip showed Betty Boop as a working woman and Felix as her pet (replacing Pudgy as Betty's pet). Unlike most other incarnations of the famous cat, Felix never spoke in this strip; his ideas and opinions are conveyed to the reader in thought balloons. Also, Felix's squash and stretch abilities and magic bag are absent, and Betty's sex appeal is downplayed.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780472117567.
- ^ Cartoon Brew: Betty Boop and Felix Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine