Alec the Great
Alec the Great was a syndicated newspaper gag panel created by Edwina Dumm and featuring a dog character (as did her other comic strip, Cap Stubbs and Tippie). It ran from 1931 to 1969.
Alec the Great
- Creator
- Edwina Dumm
- Date
- 1931
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Alec the Great was a syndicated newspaper gag panel created by Edwina Dumm and featuring a dog character (as did her other comic strip, Cap Stubbs and Tippie). It ran from 1931 to 1969.
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• Title — Alec the Great • Author — Edwina Dumm • Status — Gag panel; Concluded • Syndicate — George Matthew Adams Service (1918–1965) The Washington Star Syndicate (1965–1969) • Genre — Humor
Characters and story
Characters and story
In Alec the Great, Dumm illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, about the small dog, Alec. Their collaboration was published as a book, Alec the Great: 1,001 Verses - Wise, Witty and Cheerful (Crown, 1946). Comics historian Maurice Horn notes that Alec looked exactly like Tippie. Another dog book by Edwina Dumm was Sinbad: A Dog's Life, published by Coward McCann in 1930. Alec and Tippie both looked like Sinbad, who was based on Dumm's real-life dog Sinbad.
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1931
Alec the Great created.
1943
Alec the Great, an account of the curious life and extraordinary opinions of the late Alexander Woolcott (1943) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
1946
Alec the great digitised by Open Library.
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Alec the great (1946) — Open Library
Alec the Great, an account of the curious life and extraordinary opinions of the late Alexander Woolcott (1943) — Open Library
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4714292: Alec the Great
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- “Alec the Great”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Edwina entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Accessed Dec. 4, 2017.
- 2."Edwina Dumm's biography,", Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (Ohio State University). Accessed Dec. 4, 2017.
- 3.Horn, Maurice. The World Encyclopedia of Comics. Chelsea House, 1976.
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