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''Wee Pals'' is a syndicated comic strip about a diverse group of children, created and produced by Morrie Turner. It was the first comic strip syndicated in the United States to have a cast of diverse ethnicity, dubbed the "Rainbow Gang."〔("Wee Pals" ) at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Accessed January 27, 2014. (Archived ) from the original on January 12, 2015.〕 ==Background== When cartoonist Morrie Turner began questioning why there were no minorities in the comic strips, his mentor, ''Peanuts'' cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, suggested he create one.〔 Morris' first attempt, ''Dinky Fellas'', featured an all-black cast, but found publication in only one newspaper, the ''Chicago Defender''. Turner integrated the strip, renaming it ''Wee Pals'', and on February 15, 1965, it became the first American syndicated comic strip to have a cast of diverse ethnicity.〔 Initially syndicated by Lew Little Enterprises, it was then carried by the Register and Tribune Syndicate, before moving to United Feature Syndicate in the 1970s. When it debuted, the strip originally appeared in only five daily newspapers, as many papers refused to run a strip featuring black characters.〔Jones, Steven Loring. "From 'Under Cork' to Overcoming: Black Images in the Comics," ''Ethnic Images in the Comics'' (The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, 1986), p. 27.〕 After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the number of papers carrying the strip grew either to 60〔 or to more than 100 dailies (sources differ). As the comic strip's popularity grew, Turner added characters. He included children of more and more ethnicities, as well as a child with a physical disability. He also added a weekly section called "Soul Corner," which profiled notable African Americans from history.〔 As of 2015, the strip is distributed by Creators Syndicate.〔 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「Wee Pals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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