We'll See You In The Funny Papers Quiz

Answer: Johnny Hart

Johnny Hart's friend dared him to created a comic strip based on prehistoric times and Johnny took him up on it. The result; "B.C."
And the rest, as they say, is history. Johnny's grandson took over as the head writer of the strip after his grandfather's death.

Answer: five

"The Ryatts" was a comic strip created by Cal Alley from Memphis, TN.
Winky was the youngest child, and the alternate name for the strip in the late '60s and early '70s was "Winky Ryatt". Missy, Kitty, Pam and Tad were his older siblings.

Answer: "Pogo"

Pogo Possum's complete name was "Ponce de Leon Montgomery County Alabama Georgia Beauregard Possum"...Nice mouthful. The strip was set in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, and the nearby town of Waycross is mentioned occasionally.

Answer: "Henry"

"Henry" first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. Creator Carl Anderson later allowed Dell comics to publish Henry in color in their comic books, and Henry, along with all the other characters spoke normally.
I remember as a small child asking my Mom to read the newspaper comics to me, and each time when we got to "Henry", she would say that there was nothing to read. After I insisted on knowing what it "said", she would then explain the strip's meaning to me.

Answer: "Andy Capp"

"Andy Capp" was created by Reg Smythe in 1957, and the name is a pun on the word handicap. Buster was the son of Andy Capp, and had his own strip. They both wore the same type of flat cap to reinforce the image.

Answer: "Beetle Bailey"

Created by Mort Walker in 1950, it is one of the oldest comic strips in America still being produced by the original creator. Camp Swampy is based on Camp Crowder, an army base in Missouri, where Mort Walker had been stationed. (Dick Van Dyke had been "stationed" there as well, prior to meeting his TV wife "Laura", Mary Tyler Moore.)

Answer: "Snuffy Smith"

The first major change to the original strip, "Barney Google" came with the addition of his horse, Sparkplug, in 1922. The second, and arguably most eventful, was Barney's meeting with a North Carolina moonshiner named Snuffy Smith. Snuffy was so popular, that for a while the strip was billed under both names, and eventually became simply "Snuffy Smith."
"Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schultz was nicknamed "Sparky" as a child, in reference to Sparkplug, Barney's horse.

Answer: "Dennis"

In the British version, this character was also called "Just Dennis" or "The Pickle". They already had a "Dennis-the-Menace" that had appeared in "The Beano".

Answer: 'The Phantom"

Creator Lee Falk also created "Mandrake, The Magician". He created
"The Phantom" in 1936 and both were still in syndication as of 2010. "The Phantom" is the first superhero to wear the hallmark skin-tight outfit that many superheroes wore later. He is also the first to wear a mask with no visible eyes.

Answer: "Calvin And Hobbes"

Created by Bill Watterson, the six-year old Calvin and his stuffed tiger, (who sometimes came to life, at least in Calvin's imagination), were originally secondary characters in a comic strip that featured Calvin's older brother. The publishers encouraged him to develop these two characters instead and the result was the famously popular, "Calvin and Hobbes".
Calvin got his name from John Calvin, the Reformation theologian, while Hobbesis was named after Thomas Hobbes, the political philosopher.