| Boots and Her Buddies | |
|---|---|
 Edgar Martin's Boots and Her Buddies (June 8, 1930). From 1926 to 1931, the Sunday strip appeared in this abbreviated form as a topper strip, positioned directly above Gene Ahern's Our Boarding House. | |
| Author(s) | Edgar Martin |
| Current status/schedule | Concluded daily & Sunday strip |
| Launch date | February 18, 1924 |
| End date | October 6, 1968 |
| Alternate name(s) | Girls |
| Syndicate(s) | Newspaper Enterprise Association |
| Genre(s) | Humor, gag-a-day, satire, adults |
Boots and Her Buddies was an American comic strip by Edgar Martin that ran from 1924 to 1968, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title Boots. The character of Boots was variously labeled the "Sweetheart of the Comics", the "Sweetheart of America" and "Everybody's Sweetheart".
Martin grew up in Monmouth, Illinois where his father, George Martin, was a Monmouth College biology professor, and he spent three years attending Monmouth College, leaving his junior year to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and joining NEA in 1921 as a cartoonist.[1][2] Martin found work in 1921 in the NEA art department, and that same year he launched his strip, Girls, which had a character named Boots. Girls became Boots and Her Buddies on February 18, 1924, although some newspapers continued to use the first title.[3]
- ^ "University of Missouri: MU Libraries Special Collections". Muliraries.missouri.edu. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Reynolds, Moira Davison (2 October 2015). Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980. McFarland. ISBN 9780786481507. Retrieved 17 December 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Boots and Her Buddies at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012.