Morty Meekle
Morty Meekle is an American syndicated newspaper comic strip that was published between 1956 and 1966, created and produced by cartoonist Dick Cavalli. The series featured the title character dealing with office and dating situations, and, like Fritzi Ritz, which became Nancy after sixteen years, evolved to focus on the younger characters from Cavalli's strip, and was renamed Morty Meekle and Winthrop and then just Winthrop on February 27, 1966.
Morty Meekle
- Creator
- Dick Cavalli.
- Date
- 1956.
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Morty Meekle is an American syndicated newspaper comic strip that was published between 1956 and 1966, created and produced by cartoonist Dick Cavalli. The series featured the title character dealing with office and dating situations, and, like Fritzi Ritz, which became Nancy after sixteen years, evolved to focus on the younger characters from Cavalli's strip, and was renamed Morty Meekle and Winthrop and then just Winthrop on February 27, 1966.
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Key facts
• Title — Morty Meekle • Author — Dick Cavalli • Altnames — Morty Meekle and Winthrop • Status — Concluded daily & Sunday strip • Syndicate — Newspaper Enterprise Association • First — January 9, 1956 • Last — February 26, 1966 • Genre — comedy, gag-a-day • Followed By — Winthrop
Publication history
Publication history
Gag cartoonist Dick Cavalli—whose work appeared in magazines including The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's—had achieved such popularity by 1956 that Writer's Digest observed he had "risen to the top faster than any other cartoonist in the business." On January 9 of that year, Cavalli launched Newspaper Enterprise Association's syndicated comic strip Morty Meekle, featuring the courtship of the title character and his girlfriend, Jill Wortle, as well as Morty's travails at his low-level office job under boss E.G. Boomer. The strip gradually deemphasized the romance and work aspects in favor of what comics historian Maurice Horn called its "background chorus of snide youngsters with a perceptive take on the human condition." On February 27, 1966, Cavalli removed the adult characters and renamed the strip Winthrop, after Jill's kid brother, the most prominent of the young social critics.
Cast
Cast
• Morty Meekle – office worker • Jill Wortle – Morty's girlfriend • Mr. and Mrs. Wortle – Jill's parents • Winthrop Wortle – Jill's kid brother • E. G. Boomer – Morty's boss
Course of the series
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Course of the series
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1956
Morty Meekle created.
1956
Morty Meekle was established or created on 9 January 1956.
1966
Morty Meekle was dissolved or ceased in 1966.
Paperback collections
Paperback collections
• Cavalli, Dick, "Morty Meekle", Dell collection – 1957
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Context
The circumstances in which Morty Meekle stands. Established or created on 9 January 1956. Credited to the author Dick Cavalli. Dissolved or ceased in 1966. Recorded as comic strip.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q30590825: Morty Meekle
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- “Morty Meekle”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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