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Carol makes a reference to Daddy Warbucks from Annie on this page & it made me wonder if Annie is still culturally relevant enough for most people to understand. It technically didn’t end till 2010, but I couldn’t tell you a single person who I knew who was reading it. It gets mentioned in A Christmas Story, so in theory some child might want an explanation of what Little Orphan Annie is since it’s such a big deal in that movie, which plays all day on TBS on Christmas at the time of tis writing.
As someone who was interested in the history of cartooning & eventually made it a career, I have a working knowledge of many of the ancient comic strips from the days when you could become recognized around the world by getting your work in newspapers. So I’m not a good judge of what constitutes general knowledge on the subject. Peanuts, Popeye, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, Far Side, Dilbert, Beetle Baily, Dagwood, Funky Winkerbean, Boondocks, & Bloom County are some titles I think you cans till safely assume people will know of. Although Dilbert more for the outspoken political beliefs of the creator much more than the actual comic now. Garfield is the most omnipresent of those. What I believe to be the last newspaper comic that made its creator a millionaire. The decentralized nature of media in the modern age has reduced the potential for a creator to gain worldwide renown to a degree that makes me believe that it won’t ever happen again. Homestuck, for example, was a phenomenal success, but outside the internet it’s basically unknown. Even mainstream comics like Superman, or Spiderman, are known more for the movies than the actual comics at this point. My page got more views per month than the sales of most comic books the last time I checked, with only the top 20 or so having higher sales than my view count. The landscape is very different these days.
I probably won’t ever become a millionaire with my work, but you can get me closer via patereon of subscribestar if you feel like supporting the comic. I may never reach the cultural relevance of Oliver Warbucks, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try. XD