Polly and Her Pals

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Polly and Her Pals (originally: Positive Polly ) is the most famous comic strip by the American comic artist Cliff Sterrett . The humorous strip, aimed at an adult audience, appeared in various newspapers from 1912 to 1958 and was the first comic strip with a heroine.

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The title character is the pretty Polly, in contrast to the title, which literally means Polly and her friends , the actors on the strip are essentially not the pretty Polly and her lovers, but her family. The main character is Polly's father Sam Perkins, who is called Paw . Other characters are Polly's mother Susie, called Maw , a cousin of Polly's and a Japanese servant named Neewah, who usually doesn't understand what is going on.

Publications and draftsmen

The first strip by Polly and Her Pals , the content of which was based on Sterrett's strip For This We Have Daughters , appeared on December 4, 1912 under the title Positive Polly , the first Sunday page on December 28, 1913 under the title Here, Gentlemen, is Polly! . While the day trip was renamed Polly and Her Pals after just a few weeks , the Sunday trip was called Polly for years until it was finally named in 1925 with the title of the day trip.

Sterrett, as the creator of the Strips, gave the day trip to his assistant Paul Fung in the 1930s for health reasons. The Sunday trip, on the side of which he also accommodated a number of other own creations, was held by Sterrett until it was discontinued due to a lack of reader interest in 1958. The day trip had already been discontinued in 1942.

In 1991, Carlsen Verlag published two albums in German-speaking countries under the title Polly with selected Sunday pages by Polly and Her Pals from 1926 and 1927 and 1927 to 1929. Two further, previously announced albums with Sunday page strips from 1929 to 1932 were no longer published.

Awards and meaning

In Polly and Her Pals, Sterrett incorporated various cubist , surrealist and expressionist elements and thus served as an inspiration for various illustrator colleagues, such as Martin Branner . In 2006 Polly and Her Pals was nominated for the Prix ​​du patrimoine .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Höhne: Representation of technology in comics - The comic as a mirror of technical desires and utopias of modern industrial society . Dissertation University of Karlsruhe 2003, p. 13
  2. ↑ a b Cliff Sterrett at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on October 2, 2009
  3. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 416–417.
  4. ↑ Polly on comicguide.de , accessed on October 2, 2009
  5. ↑ Angoulême 2006: les lauréats on toutenbd.com (French) , accessed on October 5, 2012