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''Penny'' was a comic strip about a teenage girl by Harry Haenigsen which maintained its popularity for almost three decades. ''Penny'' began because Helen Rogers Reid, the wife of the ''New York Herald Tribune'' publisher Ogden Mills Reid, wanted to see a girl as the central character of a new comic strip. It was distributed by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate from 1943 to 1970.〔(Reynolds, Moira Davison. ''Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980''. McFarland, 2003. )〕 Haenigsen had been doing a strip about a teenage boy, ''Our Bill'', when he launched ''Penny'' on June 20, 1943. Comics historian Don Markstein described the title character and her confused parents: :Penelope Mildred Pringle had Katharine Hepburn's cheekbones and Dick Tracy's jawline. She also took after them in personality, never gawky or shy, or for that matter, less than totally confident and self-assured. She had a best friend, Judy, but no long-term, steady boyfriend—still, she never had a problem getting dates. Her parents, Roger and Mae Pringle, were utterly mystified by her, but coped reasonably well. Inevitably, the strip was full of teenage slang, starting with that of the bobbysoxer era but moving with the times. Haenigsen (who was 43 when it started, by the way) kept up to date by hanging out at soda fountains in Lambertville, New Jersey, where he lived and worked. He also had a trick to keep it sounding current—he'd occasionally make up his own expressions. That way he not only avoided sounding quaint—there was also a chance the reader may figure that if he'd never heard it before, it must be the newest of the new. ''Penny'' was drawn in a deceptively simple, yet highly distinctive style, anticipating the uncluttered look found in such 1950s strips as ''Peanuts'', ''Miss Peach'' and ''Hi and Lois''.〔(Markstein, Don. Toonopedia: ''Penny'' )〕 In 1955, Vladimir Nabokov wrote the following description of ''Penny'' into his novel ''Lolita'': "Her eyes would follow the adventures of her favorite strip characters; there was one well-drawn sloppy bobby-soxer with high cheekbones and angular gestures, that I was not above enjoying myself."〔(Nabokov, Vladimir. ''Lolita''. )〕 The prolific cartoonist Bill Hoest was Haenigsen's assistant on ''Penny''. After an injury from a 1965 traffic accident kept Haenigsen away from the drawing board, Hoest took over most of the work, although Haenigsen still supervised and signed each ''Penny'' strip. In 1970, when Hoest left to start his own strip, ''My Son John'', for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, Haenigsen chose to end ''Penny'' and retired.〔 In 1947, Nancy Blair of Lambertville, New Jersey was the winner in a ''Penny'' look-alike contest staged by the New Hope Recreation Center in New Hope, Pennsylvania.〔"Most Like Penny", ''Nashua Telegraph'' (Nashua, New Hampshire), August 13, 1947.〕 ==See also== *''Aggie Mack'' *''Freckles and His Friends'' *''Harold Teen'' *''Teena'' *''Zits'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penny (comic strip)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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