B.C. The Comic Strip Is 50 Years Old!
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B.C. turns fifty years old today! The comic strip was created by Johnny Hart and first appeared on February 17, 1958. Mr. Hart did the writing and drawing for his comic strip until his 2007 death. B.C. is one of the longest continuous running comic strips drawn by its original creator. Johnny Hart's daughter and grandson are now responsible for the writing and drawing duties of the comic strip.
Besides B.C., the caveman main character, we suppose that most of the characters in the comic strip, human or otherwise, are celebrating their golden anniversary as well. Here is a list of B.C. characters that have appeared over the years.
B.C. turns fifty years old today! The comic strip was created by Johnny Hart and first appeared on February 17, 1958. Mr. Hart did the writing and drawing for his comic strip until his 2007 death. B.C. is one of the longest continuous running comic strips drawn by its original creator. Johnny Hart's daughter and grandson are now responsible for the writing and drawing duties of the comic strip.
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| B.C.'s Human Characters: ▪ Peter: a philosopher, founder of Prehistoric Pessimists Society and the Column of Truth. ▪ Clumsy Carp: a very clumsy spectacle-wearing conservationist. ▪ Curls: a highly cynical individual. ▪ Thor: inventor of the wheel, the well, the rake, the comb, among other things. ▪ Wiley: an unshaven, woman-fearing, water-hating, one-legged poet, and baseball manager. ▪ Grog: a wild man with a one-word vocabulary and the strength to knock out the sun. ▪ Fat Broad: a fat, bossy, and muscular cavewoman who enjoys clobbering snakes. ▪ Cute Chic: a beautiful, blonde cavewoman. B.C.'s Animal Characters: ▪ The early bird and the early worm. ▪ The woodpecker (Wiley’s worst enemy). ▪ The tortoise and the bird, inseparable friends. ▪ Maude: an ant with a smart-alec son and a husband who has a girlfriend named Shirley. ▪ The Queen Ant: an unfeeling and abusive dictator. ▪ Various other ants including a schoolteacher and her students. ▪ The anteater: (up to four of them appeared at once). ▪ The purple-bellied dingwhopper–the last of its species. ▪ The dinosaur. ▪ The clams, talking clams with legs. ▪ The snake, the Fat Broad’s worst enemy. ▪ The apteryx, a “wingless bird with hairy feathers” (as he introduces himself). |
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