The Flibbertys

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The Flibbertys was a daily comic strip created by Ray Helle in 1953. It revolved around the husband-and-wife team of Stan and Fran Flibberty, their teenage daughter Wendy, younger children Butch and Sis, plus Geddown the dog and Preston the cat. There also was a mouse who Preston tried to catch.

Comic strip short serialized comics

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the development of the internet, they began to appear online as webcomics. There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in South Korea alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 episodes.

Ray Helle is an artist who was born in New York City and trained as a cartoonist at the Pratt Institute. He crafted freelance gag cartoons until 1941, then entered military service and saw action in Europe during World War II. After the war, he was primarily a gag cartoonist until 1954, after which he focused on his daily comic strips The Flibbertys and Box Seat. He went into semi-retirement in 1989.

The three animals could talk among themselves, but humans couldn't understand them. In 1972, Helle used human characters less and focused on the animals. By year's end he had brought the strip to a close.

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