Hi and Lois

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Hi and Lois is an American comic strip that has been published since 1954. It was created as an offshoot of the Beetle Bailey strip .

action

The employee Hiram (Hi) Flagston and his wife Lois have four children: the eldest Chip, the twins Ditto and Dot and the little Trixie. While Hi works as a sales manager at Foofram Industries, the housewife Lois takes care of the children. From the 1980s, Lois also worked as a real estate agent. When Hi and Lois is a family Strip, ending with a daily Pointe. With the exception of Chip, who has gone from eight year old to fifteen year old teenager over the years, the characters don't age.

Draftsman, Authors and Publication

Hi and Lois made their first appearance in the first half of the 1950s as brother-in-law and sister of the title character of Beetle Bailey . Hi and Lois first appeared as an independent daily strip on October 18, 1954; the first Sunday page was published almost two years later on October 14, 1956. The strip was created and originally written by Mort Walker , and Dik Browne was responsible for the original graphic design . As Walker's assistant , Jerry Dumas poked the strip. After the original creators withdrew, Brian and Greg Walker, Chance (Bob) Browne and Eric Reaves took over the comic.

In Germany, Hi and Lois was published by Ehapa Verlag under the title Die Pfifferlinge . In Italy the series was published under the titles Pippo e Lalla , Ciccibum and La famiglia De 'Guai .

Awards

In 1962, Dik Browne received the Reuben Award for Hi and Lois . In addition, Browne received in 1959, 1960, 1972 and 1977 the award for "Newspaper Comic Strips" of the "National Cartoonists Society".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 101.
  2. ↑ a b The Family on hiandlois.com (English), accessed on September 29, 2015
  3. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 173.
  4. ↑ The Creators at hiandlois.com (English), accessed September 29, 2015
  5. ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 126.
  6. ↑ Hi and Lois on lfb.it (Italian), accessed on September 29, 2015
  7. ↑ The Reuben Award at reuben.org (English), accessed on September 29, 2015
  8. ↑ Newspaper Comic Strips at reuben.org (English), accessed on September 29, 2015