Raise Your Hand if You Enjoy Comic Strips Day

February 23rd is Little Lulu Day.  Little Lulu is a cartoon creation of Marjorie Henderson Buell. Starting out as a single-panel cartoon in the Saturday Evening Post February 23, 1935 it quickly became popular among people of that generation and the Post continued to be feature the character weekly through 1945. Then during 1945 Western Publishing Company Little Lulu debuted in comic books, coloring and activity books, records, games, puzzles, dolls and sewing cards.

Why not create a comic strip for your company or the lauch of a new product or service? Here’s one I put together in about 20 minutes:

ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool from Jambav, You can now just drag-drop or click to create comic strips that express your views, opinions, angst or to just have fun, loads of it! (this is the one I used to create this cartoon because it was so easy to do and I could save to my desktop and share anywhere)

You can also use Comic Strip Generator

My Cartoon Creator  has other cool features like sound effects and more.

And then there’s Zwinky a very cool and cutting edge cartoon creator using avatars and more!

On February 23rd in History:

1886 ~ London Times publishes world’s 1st classified ad

1905 ~ Rotary Club International was formed by 4 men in Chicago

1954  ~ U.S.A. Polio Vaccines Started : The first injections of the new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk were given to a group of children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1997 ~ Scottish Scientists announced they had cloned sheep DNA and created the sheep they called “Dolly”

1998  ~ Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston South Carolina on WAVF 96.1 FM

More great marketing ideas can be found in the Quirky Marketing Calendar ~ How to Use Zany and Non-traditional Holidays to Promote Your Business 365 Days a Year!

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