The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is an aviation comic strip that first appeared October 1, , in the Chicago Tribune and ended April 1, After a run of 40 years, it was the longest-running aviation comic strip. The strip was created by year-old cartoonist and aviation enthusiast Zack Mosley , who had previously worked on the Buck Rogers and Skyroads strips. Smilin' Jack was originally Mack Martin, in On the Wing , but Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill Patterson did not like the original title, so on December 31, , the name was changed to Jack Martin, and the strip was retitled The Adventures of Smilin' Jack after its creator, who had been nicknamed "Smilin' Zack" by his colleagues. In later years it was simply known as Smilin' Jack.

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Beetle Bailey is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker , published since September 4, In the years just before Walker's death in at age 94 , it was among the oldest comic strips still being produced by its original creator. Beetle was originally a college student at Rockview University. The characters in that early strip were modeled after Walker's Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri.


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But in this day when we could use a laugh more than ever, the reality facing the comics section is anything but funny. With the newspaper business hemorrhaging readers and money, newspapers are slicing the number of strips they carry. Artist and filmmaker Mark Tatulli said he has seen 30 newspapers drop his strip "Lio" in the last 18 months. It's affecting cartoonists across the board," Tatulli said.