Ella Cinders is a very fun, well-written comic strip from the 1920s, a re-telling of the Cinderella story that sends a cute Flapper girl to Hollywood despite the nastiness of her step-momther & step-sisters. The main character, Ella Cinders, greatly resembles Louise Brooks or Colleen Moore, from this era's silent films. She is accompanied by her little brother, knicknamed Blackie, who assists with the comic relief.
Combining witty banter & a soap opera theme, it could be very successful today!

Some of our characters--


A Sunday Color strip


Here is a re-pubished collection on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1450508197/ref=cm_rdp_product

This reproduces material from newspaper sources, so it is a little hard to read here & there.

But so what? This is a comic strip that DESERVES to be rescued from the Limbo of forgotten funnies, & I hope to see a second volume, & soon!
BTW--I am not affiliated with the authors in any fashion.

{sigh} Too many comic strips have vanished forever from the memory of Fandom--popular in their own time; now lost to the passage of years, decay of newsprint, & the slow death of the American Newspaper.{/sigh}

Interesting stuff- I'll look into it. I got into "Bringing Up Father" a while back (a story about a trashy guy who strikes it rich, and is roped into being part of "society" with his social ladder-climbing wife and daughter, and frequently bullied by them), and I was impressed with how funny it was.

More Ella Strips--a second site

http://www.ilovecomixarchive.com/E/Ella-Cinders/Ella-Cinders-1926/9652186_ejzKp#651288202_pQrSr

I read the whole thing and Ella Cinders is a very strong young female character that I can really relate to!:)

What's funny is how they basically gave the character a huge, well-hyped debut, pushing her into the limelight immediately. Newspaper strips were BIG business back then- and got hype comparable in their time to what comic book companies do today. Think of Kevin Keller and Ella Cinders, and you'll see the link. Funny when you think about what comic strip creators have to do today- getting their strip in only a few papers to start, and then MAYBE getting hype about five years later.

Seems like a waste of time to even bother getting a strip in the paper.  You're basically competing with 30 strips that have subsisted on generic mediocrity for eons, and anything but that will probalby be looked down upon.

Maybe when newspapers all finally go from print to digital, pointless strips like Marmaduke will vanish.

I can't imagine anyone clicking on a Marmaduke comic strip on purpose.  People only read it because it's on the same page as something they were already reading.

Marmaduke was okay.  It's those Family Circus people you really have to be wary of. 

I never heard of this old strip, but I remember and are familiar with old strips Lil Abner and Pogo.

Man, some of these "Bringing Up Father" ones are great . I think Jiggs is what would happen if Archie and his wandering eye ever actually tied the knot.




hee-hee... spousal violence.

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http://www.barnaclepress.com/cmcvlt/BringingUpFather/buf170522.JPG "I though you wuz an airship"
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