Little Lulu

Little Lulu is a comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell. She first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel comic strip, appearing in her debut as a flower girl at a wedding, strewing the aisle with banana peels. The strip ran until 1948.

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Marjorie Henderson Buell - Saturday Evening Post - February 23 - 1935 - Flower girl - Wedding - Banana - 1948

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In the mid-1940s, Lulu graduated to animated cartoons and comic books. Famous Studios' animated Little Lulu short subjects are considered among their best work, and were in production from 1943 until 1948, when a clone, Little Audrey, was created to avoid having to pay Buell royalties.

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1940s - Animated cartoon - Comic book - Famous Studios - Short subject - 1943 - 1948 - Little Audrey

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She appeared in 10 issues of Dell Comics Four Color series (#74, 97, 110, 115, 120, 131, 139, 146, 158, 165) before graduating to her own title. With the Dell Comics/Western Publishing split that created Gold Key Comics, Little Lulu went to Gold Key, still being publishing until the 1980s.

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Dell Comics - Western Publishing - Gold Key Comics - 1980s

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Artist John Stanley's work on the Little Lulu comic book is highly regarded. He did the initial Lulu comics, later working with artist Irv Trip. He continued working on the comic until around 1961. Stanley is responsible for the many additional characters in the stories. His work has been collected in a series of hardcovers by Gladstone Comics in the 1980s.

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John Stanley - Gladstone Comics - 1980s

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Little Lulu was also hired as a spokestoon for Kleenex.

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Spokestoon - Kleenex

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In 1995, Lulu again appeared in The Little Lulu Show, an animated television series on HBO, this time voiced by Tracey Ullman.

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1995 - The Little Lulu Show - Animated - Television series - HBO - Tracey Ullman

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Characters in the Little Lulu series include her friends Tubby (who later got his own short-lived series), Alvin, Ol' Witch Hazel, and Li'l Itch. Lulu's last name is Moppet.

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In 2004, Dark Horse Comics obtained the rights to reprint the classic Little Lulu comics. They have published five volumes so far, with several more in the works.

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2004 - Dark Horse Comics

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• Lulu Goes Shopping ISBN 1-59307-270-8 (reprints Little Lulu #6-12)
• Lulu Takes a Trip ISBN 1-59307-317-8 (reprints Little Lulu #13-16)
• My Dinner with Lulu ISBN 1-59307-318-6 (reprints Four Color Comics #74, 97, 110, 115, 120)
• Sunday Afternoon ISBN 1-59307-345-3 (reprints Four Color Comics #131, 139, 146, 158)
• In The Doghouse ISBN 1-59307-345-3 (reprints Four Color Comics #165 and Little Lulu #1-5)
• Letters to Santa ISBN 1-59307-386-0 (in October, reprints Little Lulu #17-??)
• Lulu's Umbrella Service ISBN 1-59307-399-2 (in December, reprints Little Lulu ??)
 
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