Aggie Mack
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Aggie Mack was a newspaper comic strip
about a teenage girl. Created by Hal Rasmusson
, it was distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate
beginning in 1946. It had a 26-year run, with a title change to Aggie during the final six years.
The central figure was a blonde named Aggie (a nickname based on her first name Agnes). Aggie was raised by her father's second wife, who favored her own daughter, Mona, a few years older than Aggie. Comics historian Don Markstein commented:
After Rasmusson died in 1962, the series was taken over by Roy L. Fox. In 1966, the title was shortened to Aggie. Final episodes of the strip were published in 1972.
Beginning in 1947, the strip was very popular in France
where it was titled as Fillettes. In 1960, Gérard Alexandre (who used the pseudonym AL.G.) created an all-French version of the strip and titled it Aggie.
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
about a teenage girl. Created by Hal Rasmusson
Hal Rasmusson
Hal Rasmusson was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Aggie Mack about a teenage girl.Born in Crookston, Minnesota, Rasmusson grew up in Minneapolis, where he attended the Minneapolis School of Art for two years. He started his career doing fashion illustration...
, it was distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate
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beginning in 1946. It had a 26-year run, with a title change to Aggie during the final six years.
The central figure was a blonde named Aggie (a nickname based on her first name Agnes). Aggie was raised by her father's second wife, who favored her own daughter, Mona, a few years older than Aggie. Comics historian Don Markstein commented:
- Dad was seldom seen, tho he did support the family from afar. Aggie's only friend at home was Whiskers, a stray dog she adopted early on—who, of course, was hated by the rest of the family. The rest of her social life was pretty ordinary—school activities, a succession of boyfriends, the usual array of pals and rivals… and her family situation never reached the point of out-and-out slavery to her step-mother and step-sister, tho her friends did sometimes remark on the unfairness of it all. Even at that, it gradually eased up as the series progressed. It never quite went away, but the Archie-like aspects dominated more as time went on.
After Rasmusson died in 1962, the series was taken over by Roy L. Fox. In 1966, the title was shortened to Aggie. Final episodes of the strip were published in 1972.
Beginning in 1947, the strip was very popular in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
where it was titled as Fillettes. In 1960, Gérard Alexandre (who used the pseudonym AL.G.) created an all-French version of the strip and titled it Aggie.
Comic books
Aggie was adapted to comic books by Superior Comics, which published eight issues between January, 1948 and August, 1949. In 1962. Dell Comics adapted Aggie into an issue of their Four Color Comics.See also
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