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''Little Lulu'' is a comic strip created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' on 23 February 1935 in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels. ''Little Lulu'' replaced Carl Anderson's ''Henry'', which had been picked up for distribution by King Features Syndicate. The ''Little Lulu'' panel continued to run weekly in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' until 30 December 1944. ''Little Lulu'' was created as a result of Anderson's success. Schlesinger Library curator Kathryn Allamong Jacob wrote: :Lulu was born in 1935, when ''The Saturday Evening Post'' asked Buell to create a successor to the magazine’s ''Henry'', Carl Anderson’s stout, mute little boy, who was moving on to national syndication. The result was Little Lulu, the resourceful, equally silent (at first) little girl whose loopy curls were reminiscent of the artist’s own as a girl. Buell explained to a reporter, "I wanted a girl because a girl could get away with more fresh stunts that in a small boy would seem boorish".〔(Jacob, Kathryn Allamong. "Little Lulu Lives Here", ''Radcliffe Quarterly'', Summer 2006. )〕 ==History== Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904–1993), whose work appeared under the name "Marge", had created two comic strips in the 1920s: ''The Boy Friend'' and ''Dashing Dot'', both with female leads. She first had Little Lulu published in a single-panel cartoon in the ''The Saturday Evening Post'' on February 23, 1935, in which Lulu appears as a flower girl at a wedding and strews the aisle with banana peels. The ''Little Lulu'' strip replaced the strip ''Henry'' in the magazine; the ''Post'' requested a similar strip from Buell, and Buell created a little girl character in place of ''Henry''s little boy as she believed "a girl could get away with more fresh stunts that in a boy would seem boorish". The single-panel strip continued in the ''Post'' until the December 30, 1945, issue, and continued from then as a regular comic strip. Buell has said the tough little girl with corkscrew curls in her hair resembles herself when she was young. Buell herself ceased drawing the strip in 1947, and in 1950 ''Little Lulu'' became a daily syndicated by Chicago Tribune–New York News Syndicate and ran until 1969. Comic-book stories of the character scripted by John Stanley appeared in ten issues of Dell's ''Four Color'' before a ''Marge's Little Lulu'' series appeared in 1948. With scripts and layouts by Stanley and finished art by Irving Tripp and others. Stanley greatly expanded the cast of characters and changed the name of Lulu's portly pal from "Joe" to "Tubby", a character that was popular enough himself to warrant a ''Marge's Tubby'' series that ran from 1952 to 1961. The character was widely merchandised, and was the first mascot for Kleenex tissues; from 1952 to 1965 the character appeared in an elaborate animated billboard in Times Square in New York City. The comics were translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese, and other languages. After Buell's retirement in 1972 she signed the rights to Western Publishing and ''Marge's'' was dropped from the title, and the series continued until 1984. In 1995 stories from the comic book were adapted for ''The Little Lulu Show'', an HBO animated series with the voices of Tracey Ullman (Season 1) and Jane Woods (Season 2–3) as Lulu Moppet. 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「Little Lulu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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