Not all strips, however, were the subject of their own features. These films demonstrated the extent to which popular comic strips could be successfully adapted to the screen in the studio era. Based on the comic strip by Chic Young, Columbia released twenty-eight Blondie films starring Penny Singleton (1908–2003) and Arthur Lake (1905–1987) between 19, making it the most successful film series that originated from golden-age comic strips.
Outcault's Buster Brown, and in 1915 Larry Semon (1889–1928) directed a version of George McManus's popular strip about Irish immigrants, Bringing Up Father.
Porter (1870–1941) directed an adaptation of Richard F. Starting in 1902, for example, Biograph created a series of film versions of Frederick Burr Opper's Alphonse and Gaston comic strip. Moving the antics of these characters to the screen was an obvious way to launch successful film franchises. Appearing nationally in the pages of hundreds of daily newspapers, the best-known comic strips were an integral part of the everyday culture of millions of Americans.
The forerunners of comic books in the United States were newspaper comic strips, and filmmakers were quick to capitalize on many of their successes. The history of these popular forms in the twentieth century can be read as film's rise from suspect technology to prominence as the most important art form of the age while comics retained their original degraded status and have rarely, albeit increasingly, been accorded the status of art. Thus, film underwent a thorough modernizing process, but comics, for the most part, did not. While many film-makers sought to cast off these low associations through the construction of middle-class movie palaces and adaptations of classic works of literature, for the most part comics maintained their association with children's media. Each medium was quickly adopted as a mode of popular visual narrative, sharing a common history of being perceived as inferior aspects of early-twentieth-century mass culture. Comics and Comic Books COMIC STRIPS ON FILMīoth comics and cinema had important forebears in the mid-nineteenth century, but they emerged roughly contemporaneously in the 1890s.
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