Inside Woody Allen
Inside Woody Allen is an American gag-a-day celebrity comics comic strip about the comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen. Drawn by Stuart Hample, the strip ran from October 4, 1976, to April 8, 1984. The strip's first year was credited to a pseudonym, Joe Marthen.
Inside Woody Allen
- Date
- 1976
- Publisher
- King Features Syndicate
- Language
- English
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Inside Woody Allen is an American gag-a-day celebrity comics comic strip about the comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen. Drawn by Stuart Hample, the strip ran from October 4, 1976, to April 8, 1984. The strip's first year was credited to a pseudonym, Joe Marthen.
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Hample's name appeared on the strip starting September 19, 1977.
Key facts
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• Title — Inside Woody Allen • Author — Stuart Hample • Status — Finished • First — October 4, 1976 • Last — April 8, 1984 • Publisher — King Features • Genre — Gag-a-day, Celebrity comics
Characters and story
Characters and story
The strip was based on Allen's comedic persona and focused on his neuroses, angst, sexual frustration and frequent psychiatric treatment. Writers for the strip included David Weinberger.
In Annie Hall
In Annie Hall
Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall contains an animated sequence based on Hample's artwork, though the actual animation was done by Chris Ishii.
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1976
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1976
Inside Woody Allen is recorded from 1976.
1976
Inside Woody Allen was established or created in 1976.
1978
Inside Woody Allen (1978) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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- United States
Collected editions
A collection of some strips was published in 1978 as Non-Being and Somethingness: Selections from the Comic Strip Inside Woody Allen and features an introduction by Buckminster Fuller. Another volume, Dread and Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip was published in 2009. • Illustration — Stuart Hample's Inside Woody Allen (January 27, 1980).
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- “Inside Woody Allen”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Holtz, Allan. American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. The University of Michigan Press. 204. 2012. 978-0-472-11756-7.
- 2.Hample, Stuart. How I turned Woody Allen into a comic strip. The Guardian. October 19, 2009.
- 3.Stuart Hample. lambiek.net.
- 4.Chris Ishii. lambiek.net.
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Inside Woody Allen was published by King Features Syndicate. Established or created in 1976. Recorded as comic strip.
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