Lola (comic strip)

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Lola
Author(s)Todd Clark
Steve Dickenson (Sundays only, 1999–2008) [1]
Website www.gocomics.com/lola
Current status/scheduleOngoing daily & Sunday strip
Launch date1999;26 years ago (1999)
Syndicate(s) Tribune Media Services (1999–2005) [2]
United Feature Syndicate (2005–present)
GenreHumor

Lola is an American gag-a-day comic strip by Todd Clark syndicated since 1999. [1] It is published daily and centers on the eponymous Lola Rayder, [3] an old widow who moved in with her son and his family [4] after the death of her husband, Crawford. [5]

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Characters

Inspiration

The main character, Lola Rayder, is inspired by Steve Dickenson's great aunt. Dickenson was Clark’s partner for the strip’s first eight years. The cartoon and real Lola share a tough spirit and a history of service as an officer in the Army during World War II, though Clark said the real Lola was far kinder. [14]

Clark's humor in Lola is inspired by Mad Magazine. In his early life, he would read Mad Magazine and found it to be weird yet interesting. In an interview with The Arizona Daily Star, Clark says "You hear so many cartoonists talk about reading ‘Peanuts’ everyday, but that wasn’t me. We had the paper, but it was Mad magazine that got me going. This is something I hadn’t seen before. It almost seemed like you were doing something wrong or naughty when you were reading Mad because it was weird." [14] He enjoys applying bizarre themes to Lola, like having Lola pulled over by the same cop a lot.

Cancellation in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette canceled Lola over a fart joke in July 2000. Readers flooded the paper with letters, supporting the comic and asking for it to be reinstated. However, the paper stood it's ground citing the that joke "exceeded the boundaries of good taste for the comics pages." Clark reacted with anger that his comic would be canceled over a scatological joke. But, Frank Fellone, the newspaper's deputy managing editor at the time, said that he did not want to condone the coarsening of society.

References

  1. 1 2 Clark entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Accessed Nov. 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ E&P Staff "‘Lola’ Comic Moves to United Today," Editor & Publisher (May 9, 2005).
  3. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.August 7, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  4. 1 2 "About Lola". Universal Uclick. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.August 4, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  6. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.July 10, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  7. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.July 26, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  8. 1 2 Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.July 23, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  9. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.July 3, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  10. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.July 17, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  11. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.July 19, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  12. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.July 20, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  13. ↑ Todd Clark ( w ,  a ). Lola.July 6, 2014,Universal Uclick.
  14. 1 2 Tucson, Johanna Willett | This Is (2014-07-13). "Comic strip creators talk life, laughs". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2025-10-28.


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