24 Facts About Little Lulu

Little Lulu is a comic strip created in 1935 by American author Marjorie Henderson Buell.

The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23,1935, 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 December 30,1944.

Little Lulu first had Little Lulu published as a single-panel cartoon in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23,1935.

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In 1950, Little Lulu became a daily syndicated series by Chicago Tribune–New York News Syndicate, and ran until 1969.

Comic-book stories of the character scripted by John Stanley appeared in ten issues of Dell's Four Color before a Marge's Little Lulu series appeared in 1948 with scripts and layouts by Stanley and finished art by Irving Tripp and others.

Little Lulu did the initial Lulu comics, later working with artists Irving Tripp and Charles Hedinger, writing and laying out the stories.

Daily comic strip, entitled Little Lulu, was syndicated by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate from June 5,1950, through May 31,1969.

Little Lulu appeared in ten issues of Dell Comics' Four Color comic book series, before graduating to her own title: Marge's Little Lulu in 1948.

Between 1985 and 1992 Another Rainbow Publishing published a hardbound 18-volume set, the Little Lulu Library, collecting the stories in the Four Color issues, plus the regular series through No 87.

Little Lulu was featured on numerous licensed products, and she was the centerpiece of an extensive advertising campaign for Kleenex tissues during the 1940s–50s, being the first mascot for Kleenex tissues; from 1952 to 1965 the character appeared in an elaborate animated billboard in Times Square in New York City.

Kleenex commercials featuring Little Lulu were regularly seen in the 1950s on Perry Como's TV show.

Buell played an active role in merchandising Little Lulu, often taking a hands-on role in terms and negotiations.

Between 1943 and 1948, Little Lulu appeared in 26 theatrical animated shorts produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures, replacing the Superman shorts of the 1940s.

Little Lulu was voiced by Cecil Roy, while Tubby was voiced by Arnold Stang.

Little Lulu decides to skip school and go fishing, but her guilt for truancy gets the better of her.

Little Lulu was released on November 4,1978 and The Big Hex of Little Lulu on September 15,1979.

Little Lulu was adapted for the Japanese TV series Ritoru Ruru to Chitchai Nakama, was directed by Seitaro Kodama, produced by the Japanese studio Nippon Animation and written by Niisan Takahashi.

Little Lulu was interpreted by Eiko Masuyama in the first three episodes and Minori Matsushima for the remainder, Keiko Yamamoto interpreted to Tubby Tompkins, Alvin was performed by Sachiko Chichimatsu, and Annie and Iggy Inch were performed by Junko Hori and Yoneko Matsukane respectively.

In 1995, Little Lulu was adapted for The Little Lulu Show, an HBO animated series with the voices of Tracey Ullman and Jane Woods as Lulu Moppet.

Little Lulu fans hold an annual gathering at the San Diego Comic Con in which they perform a play adapted from a classic Little Lulu story.

Little Lulu was relegated to appear in the planned sequel, which has been indefinitely delayed.

Little Lulu finally makes a cameo appearing on a comic cover in The Simpsons episode "Husbands and Knives", being read by Alan Moore.