- Saturday Evening Post
- Little Lulu was the creation of Marjorie
Henderson Buell and started as a single-panel cartoon in
the Saturday Evening Post February 23, 1935. The
cartoon appeared weekly through 1945. This Little Lulu
seemed to frequently get into trouble with adults. She
was rather angular, with long thin legs.
- Cartoon Movies
- Little Lulu was made into cartoon movies in the late 1930's and early 1940's. These
cartoons were based on the Saturday Evening Post
character.
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- Comic Book
- In 1945 Little Lulu became a comic book,
first appearing in Four Color 74. After 10 Four Color
issues, Little Lulu comics began on a regular schedule,
coming out every two mionths. During this time Marge
maintained control of the Little Lulu character, but the
comic book author was John Stanle and Irving Tripp the
artist for many years. While Little Lulu was a comic book
character, she changed over the years from the angular
little girl who gave adults difficulty to the rounder
little girl I grew up to love. She no longer misbehaved
as she did in the early comics; she gave the boys
difficulty instead as she continually outwitted them when
they tried to harrass her and the other girls.
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- Newspaper Cartoon
- Little Lulu became a newspaper cartoon,
first appearing in the Chicago Tribune/New York Sundicate
on June 5, 1950. In late 1949 and early 1950 12 panels of
single cartoons were drawn for the newspaper, but they
never appeared. The cartoons that began in June, 1950,
were multi-panel cartoons. The artist of these panels is
unknown.
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- Advertisements/Products
- Little Lulu became the spokesgirl for Kleenex
Tissues, a position she held
for 16 years. She also apeared in advertisements for
other products. Little Lulu products were popular and
quite varied.
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- TV Cartoons
- Little Lulu became a cartoon for TV. The
character in these cartoons resembles the Little Lulu of
the later comic books, rather than the Saturday Evening
Post character that appeared in the early movies, but is
even more grown up and modern.
Page last updated 22 Dec 2000.
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