Curls was patterned after Hart's friend from high school, Richard (Curly) Boland. Clumsy Carp was patterned after Hart's childhood friend, Jack Caprio. Clumsy Carp: a nerdy, bespectacled ichthyologist and perpetual klutz, clumsy enough to trip over a shadow, yet with some unusual skills, such as his ability to make and stack "water balls" (similar to snowballs).Wiley was patterned after Hart's brother-in-law, Wiley Baxter, who lost his leg in World War II. Wiley: a peg-legged, superstitious, unshaven, woman-fearing, water-hating poet and coach of the local baseball and football teams, not to mention the first bartender.She is named after Johnny's mom Grace Anna Brown. Until August 29, 2019, Grace was referred to in the strip as the "Cute Chick". Grace: a quiet but intellectual giant in a world of crude men.She is named after Johnny's wife Bobby's mom Janie Indiana Finch. Until August 29, 2019, Jane was referred to in the strip as the "Fat Broad". Jane: a bossy cavewoman who enjoys clobbering snakes.Thor was patterned after another of Hart's friends from GE, Thornton Kinney. Thor: A brown-haired, smart, witty self-proclaimed ladies' man inventor of the wheel and the comb.Peter is patterned after Hart's friend, Peter Reuter the two had been co-workers at General Electric. Peter: A yellow haired, self-styled genius and the world's first philosophical failure, founder of the "Prehistoric Pessimists Society" and the "Truth Pedestal," and the discoverer of oil.occasionally makes nighttime rounds as his alter-ego, "The Midnight Skulker." B.C.: An orange haired, humble, naïve slob and eternal patsy.The animal characters include dinosaurs, ants and an anteater, clams, a snake, a turtle and bird duo, and an apteryx (presented in the strip as being the sole surviving specimen, and hence self-aware of its being doomed to extinction). ![]() Hart describes the title character as similar to himself, playing the "patsy." The other major characters - Peter, Wiley, Clumsy Carp, Curls, and Thor - were patterned after friends and co-workers. Hart was inspired to draw cavemen (and many other creatures) through the chance suggestion of one of his coworkers at General Electric, and took to the idea "because they are a combination of simplicity and the origin of ideas." The name for the strip "may have been suggested by my wife, Bobby," Johnny recalls. (The Mastroianni brothers also created an original strip, Dogs of C Kennel, in 2009.)įor a visual glossary, see Meet The Actors at John Hart Studios. and Hart's other creation, Wizard of Id), and Hart's daughter Perri (letterer and colorist). Īfter Hart's death in 2007, the strip began being produced by Hart's grandsons Mason Mastroianni (head writer and cartoonist) and Mick Mastroianni (writer for both B.C. At that point, in 1987, Hart changed distributors to Creators Syndicate, becoming one of Creators' first syndicated strips. That syndicate changed hands and names frequently - Publishers-Hall Syndicate, the Field Newspaper Syndicate, News America Syndicate, and finally North America Syndicate - eventually becoming part of King Features. was taken over by the Publishers Syndicate. When the Herald Tribune syndicate folded in 1966 due to the demise of its parent newspaper, B.C. by gag writers Jack Caprio and Dick Boland (who later joined Hart and cartoonist Brant Parker on The Wizard of Id). was initially rejected by a number of syndicates until the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate accepted it, launching the strip on February 17, 1958. ![]() 2.4 Seldom-used or one-shot human charactersī.C.2.3 Animals and other non-human characters.
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