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Sam's Strip appeared from October 1961 to June 1963. It reached a peak circulation of about 60 newspapers, not enough to sustain it. In Sam's Strip, the title character, Sam, was aware of being the proprietor of the comic strip in which he appeared. The strip relied heavily on metahumor, break-outs into other comic strip universes, appearances by classic comic strip characters, and breaking the Fourth wall.

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  • Sam and Silo
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  • Sam's Strip appeared from October 1961 to June 1963. It reached a peak circulation of about 60 newspapers, not enough to sustain it. In Sam's Strip, the title character, Sam, was aware of being the proprietor of the comic strip in which he appeared. The strip relied heavily on metahumor, break-outs into other comic strip universes, appearances by classic comic strip characters, and breaking the Fourth wall.
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Creators
  • Mort Walker
Date
  • 1977(xsd:integer)
Last
  • 1963-06-01(xsd:date)
Status
  • Ended
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  • yes
comic color
  • background:#c0c0c0
Genre
First
  • 1961-10-16(xsd:date)
Author
colorists
  • Mort Walker
Title
  • Sam and Silo
  • Sam's Strip
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  • #FFEEDE
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  • Series
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  • background:#5be85b
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Followed By
  • Sam and Silo
abstract
  • Sam's Strip appeared from October 1961 to June 1963. It reached a peak circulation of about 60 newspapers, not enough to sustain it. In Sam's Strip, the title character, Sam, was aware of being the proprietor of the comic strip in which he appeared. The strip relied heavily on metahumor, break-outs into other comic strip universes, appearances by classic comic strip characters, and breaking the Fourth wall. Other comic strips have used metahumor from time to time — for example, Pogo used objectified speech balloons and on rare occasions the characters could see the artist's signature; Doonesbury characters look at putative fan mail — but Sam's Strip used it every day. Thus, it held a special interest for comic strip aficionados; but it left the general public nonplussed. The only other recurring character was Sam's unnamed assistant, who was only given a name in the more conventional gag-a-day comic strip Sam and Silo in 1977, featuring the two characters as a sheriff and deputy, respectively, in a small American town.
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