Hambone's Meditations
American comic strip (1916–1968) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hambone's Meditations was a comic strip produced from 1916 to 1968, and syndicated initially by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate and later by the Bell Syndicate.[1] Produced by two generations of the Alley family, the one-panel cartoon originated with the Memphis, Tennessee, newspaper The Commercial Appeal, where it ran on the front page. The title character was a stereotypical African-American man with wide eyes and exaggerated large lips. He dispensed folk wisdom in caricatured dialect.
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![]() Hambone's Meditations, by J.P. Alley from 1921 | |
Author(s) | James Pinckney Alley (1915–1934) Nona Lane Alley (1934–1968) |
Illustrator(s) | Cal Alley (1934–1968) & James P. Alley, Jr. (1934–1965) |
Current status/schedule | Concluded gag-a-day strip |
Launch date | 1915 (1915) |
End date | November 30, 1968 (November 30, 1968); 53 years |
Alternate name(s) | Hambone Says The Meditations of Hambone |
Syndicate(s) | McClure Newspaper Syndicate Bell Syndicate |
Publisher(s) | Jahl & Co. |
Genre(s) | Humor |
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