Little Lulu

Little Lulu
The first Little Lulu cartoon from the 23 February 1935 issue of The Saturday Evening Post
Author(s)	Marge
Current status / schedule	Ended
Launch date	1935-02-23
End date	1944-12-30
Publisher(s)	The Saturday Evening Post
Genre(s)	Humor

Marge's Little Lulu
Publication information
Publisher	Dell/Gold Key(Western)
Schedule	bi-monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	Jan/Feb 1948 – March 1984
Number of issues	268
Creative team
Writer(s)	John Stanley
Artist(s)	Irving Tripp John Stanley
Collected editions
In the Doghouse
Lulu Takes a Trip
Letters to Santa
Lulu's Umbrella Service

Little Lulu is a comic strip created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on 23 February 1935 in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels. Little Lulu replaced Carl Anderson's Henry, which had been picked up for distribution by King Features Syndicate. The Little Lulu panel continued to run weekly in The Saturday Evening Post until 30 December 1944.

Little Lulu was created as a result of Anderson's success. Schlesinger Library curator Kathryn Allamong Jacob wrote:

Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904–1993), whose work appeared under the name "Marge", had created two comic strips in the 1920s: The Boy Friend and Dashing Dot, both with female leads. She first had Little Lulu published in a single-panel cartoon in the The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935, in which Lulu appears as a flower girl at a wedding and strews the aisle with banana peels. The Little Lulu strip replaced the strip Henry in the magazine; the Post requested a similar strip from Buell, and Buell created a little girl character in place of Henry's little boy as she believed "a girl could get away with more fresh stunts that in a boy would seem boorish". The single-panel strip continued in the Post until the December 30, 1944 issue, and continued from then as a regular comic strip. Buell has said the tough little girl with corkscrew curls in her hair resembles herself when she was young. Buell herself ceased drawing the strip in 1947, and in 1950 Little Lulu became a daily syndicated by Chicago Tribune–New York News Syndicate and ran until 1969.