Marvel,” jokes that having an actor who is a stan (or, really big fan) as they say, has its challenges. Art © Tribune Media Services.Sana Amanat, the co-creator of “Ms. Webring: This site is a member of WebRing. Today in Toons: Every day's an anniversary! Tho the Tribune no longer carries the strip, its syndicate continues to distribute it to about 65 papers.īACK to Don Markstein's Toonopedia Home Page Gil Thorp is currently written by former Detroit Free Press (and current Detroit News) columnist Neal Rubin and drawn by comic book veteran Frank McLaughlin, who, among other things, created Judomaster for Charlton Comics.
Jenkins (and his son, Chad, who wrote much of it without credit) took the strip a bit farther in the direction of religious right-wing politics than some readers are comfortable with, and it began losing papers - including the Tribune itself (tho the Trib's sports site does link to it online).īurns died in 2000. His association with the strip began when Berrill was considering novelizations of it, but that project never quite gelled.
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The writer, chosen by Berrill himself, was Jerry Jenkins, whose other work includes biographies of several sports stars and the controversial Left Behind series of novels. In fact, he continued to write and draw his strip until the day he died, March 14, 1996.Īfter his death, the art on the strip was taken over by his long-time friend and assistant, Ray Burns (also a former assistant to Alex Raymond on Rip Kirby and an occasional ghost illustrator on The Berenstain Bears). Berrill spent his entire career at the Trib, most of it on Thorp. When he pitched a strip of his own, he wanted to do one about sports and the syndicate wanted one about teens, and Gil Thorp was the result. Berrill's career in comics started in 1942, when he began writing stories for Martin Branner's Winnie Winkle, also a Tribune Syndicate offering. The strip was created by cartoonist Jack Berrill, who named his character after Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Olympic star Jim Thorpe.
Also, there have been several collections of the strip, mostly limited editions published by fans.
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The strip never became a TV show or a movie, but Dell Comics adapted it into a oneshot comic book in 1963. Outside the school, Gil began a personal relationship with the girls' phys-ed teacher, Mimi Clover, in the mid-1970s. In more recent years, like most modern comics that tell continued stories, it's tackled problems like teen pregnancy, drug abuse, etc. There's also dating, office politics, parent-teacher conflicts, kids in trouble and that sort of stuff.
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Of course, in a series full of teens and school officials, sporting concerns aren't the only sources of stories. It's been distributed all these years by The Chicago Tribune Syndicate, whose other offerings include Dick Tracy, Broom Hilda and a lot of things in between. He's been the athletic director at Milford High School since his daily comic strip began, September 8, 1958. He coaches young athletes in football, baseball or basketball, depending on the season. Like Tank McNamara, Gil is retired from active athletics, but still works in that industry. But both the strip and its heroĪre competent and dependable, doing what they do quite well, on a steady basis, year after year. In this, it resembles its protagonist, whose career is in sports but who will never be a star like Joe Palooka or Ozark Ike. Nor will it ever win great critical acclaim, like Calvin & Hobbes or King Aroo. Gil Thorp is a comic strip that will never be an international sensation like Garfield or Peanuts. Please contribute to its necessary financial support. If this site is enjoyable or useful to you, Distributed by: Chicago Tribune Syndicate
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