Título: Canadian comics
Seção: Age of comic strips (1920s-1930s)
Background: Canadian comics refers to comics and cartooning by citizens of Canada or permanent residents of Canada regardless of residence. Canada has two official languages, and distinct comics cultures have developed in English and French Canada. The English tends to follow American trends, and the French Franco-Belgian ones, with little crossover between the two cultures. Canadian comics run the gamut of comics forms, including editorial cartooning, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, and webcomics, and are published in newspapers, magazines, books, and online.

Conteúdo: Canadian cartoonists often found it hard to succeed in the field of comic strips without moving to the US, but in 1921, Jimmy Frise, one of Ernest Hemingway's drinking buddies during the journalist's days in Toronto, sold Life's Little Comedies to the Toronto Star's Star Weekly. This strip was later retitled Birdseye Center, and became the longest-running strip in English Canadian history. In 1947, Frise brought the strip to the Montreal Standard, where it was renamed Juniper Junction. Nova Scotia-born artist J. R. Williams single-panel strip about rural and small-town life, Out Our Way, began in 1922 and was syndicated in 700 newspapers at its peak.  Two new comic strips appeared on the same day in 1929 in American newspapers and fed the public's desire for escapist entertainment at the dawn of the Great Depression. They were the first non-humorous adventure strips, and both were adaptations. One was Buck Rogers; the other, Tarzan, by Halifax native Hal Foster, who had worked as illustrator for catalogues from Eaton's and the Hudson's Bay Company before moving to the US in his late 20s. Other adventure strips soon followed and paved the way for the genre diversity that was seen in comic strips in the 1930s. In 1937, Foster began his own strip, Prince Valiant, which has become his best-known work for Foster's dextrous, realistic artwork. After struggling to support himself at various Toronto-based publications, Richard Taylor, under the pen name "Ric", became a regular at The

user: Who is one of Ernest Hemingway's drinking buddies?

assistant: Jimmy Frise, one of Ernest Hemingway's drinking buddies

user: What was the longest-running strip in English Canadian comic history?

assistant: Life's Little Comedies to the Toronto Star's Star Weekly. This strip was later retitled Birdseye Center,

user: Where was J.R. Williams born?

assistant: Nova Scotia-born artist J. R. Williams

user: Who purchased the Life's little Comedies ?

assistant: sold Life's Little Comedies to the Toronto Star's Star Weekly.

user: How many comic strips appeared on the same day in 1929?

assistant: Two new comic strips appeared on the same day in 1929

user: What are the two first non-humorous adventure strips called?

assistant: One was Buck Rogers; the other, Tarzan,

user: When did Foster begin his own comic strip?

assistant: In 1937, Foster began his own strip,

user: What was the pen name of Richard Taylor?

assistant: under the pen name "Ric",

user: Where did Richard Taylor re-locate to?

assistant: became a regular at The New Yorker and relocated to the US,