Trudy (american comic strip)
Encyclopedia
Trudy is the title character of a comic strip
about a suburban homemaker by Jerry Marcus
which debuted on March 18, 1963. It was syndicated until August 20, 2005, after Marcus died on July 22 of that year.
King Features Syndicate
distributed the Sunday and daily strips to more than 200 newspapers worldwide,
Marcus claimed the central character of Trudy was based on his mother who had to raise four children in a Brooklyn cold-water flat after his father died when he was three years old.
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
about a suburban homemaker by Jerry Marcus
Jerry Marcus
Jerry Marcus was a prolific freelance gag cartoonist who also created the syndicated newspaper comic strip, Trudy....
which debuted on March 18, 1963. It was syndicated until August 20, 2005, after Marcus died on July 22 of that year.
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...
distributed the Sunday and daily strips to more than 200 newspapers worldwide,
Characters and story
Homemaker Trudy finds time to manage the house, her husband, their children and pets, including the family cat, Fatkat.Marcus claimed the central character of Trudy was based on his mother who had to raise four children in a Brooklyn cold-water flat after his father died when he was three years old.