Little Lulu

Who likes Little Lulu?? I do, I do! My mentor always says that I remind her of Little Lulu, so finally I saw a DVD of her and bought it for a Christmas gift. I watched it first to see what it was all about, and it is pretty cute! Here's some history about Little Lulu!

Little Lulu is a comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell. She first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel comic strip, appearing in her debut as a flower girl at a wedding, strewing the aisle with banana peels. The strip ran until 1948. Original Little Lulu cartoons were also used frequently in Pepsi magazine ads thoroughout the 1940s. Lulu was also the centerpiece of an extensive advertising campaign for Kleenex tissues during the 1940s and 1950s.

Supporting characters in the comics include her friends Tubby Tompkins (who later got his own short-lived comic-book series), Annie, Iggy, Gloria, Wilber Van Snobbe, Alvin, Ol' Witch Hazel, and Li'l Itch. Lulu's last name is Moppet.

In the mid-1940s, Lulu appeared in a series of theatrical animated shorts produced by Famous Studios for Paramount from 1943-48. In all, 26 Little Lulu cartoons were released in a period of less than five years. According to Don Markstein's Toonpedia, a similar character, Little Audrey, was then created after Paramount failed to renew the Lulu licence (and therefore avoided the payment of royalty fees). The voice of both Little Lulu and Little Audrey was supplied by actress Mae Questel who was best known as the cartoon voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl.

A daily comic strip entitled Little Lulu was syndicated from June 5, 1950 through May 1969. Artists included Roger Armstrong, Randy Henderson and Woody Kimbrell.

- from Wikipedia