Word: pett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strip has ever matched the pulling power of British Cartoonist Norman Pett's Jane (see cut), the uninhibited comic-stripper who got her start during the war by entrancing British troops, as a sort of Miss Lace without lace or much of anything else. Jane manages to get down to bra and panties at least once a week in London's tabloid Daily Mirror. Fleet Street agrees that she is the only strip that actually boosts a paper's sales. Yet Jane flopped in the U.S. last year: "I'm afraid," said a British syndicate salesman...
...soldiers in Britain learned to like a leggy, blond comic-strip character named Jane. Each day in the London Daily Mirror, Artist W. Norman Pett found some way of making Jane lose all, or almost all her clothes (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). He was pretty inventive about it: Jane would catch her skirt in a bicycle sprocket, in revolving machinery, in a plane fall (see cut) or a pratfall...
...Jane would be a natural for American audiences. So did Hearst's King Features, and last week it took steps to syndicate Jane's comic strip tease to the U.S., starting in October. Step No. 1: assigning an artist to paint panties back on Jane whenever Artist Pett goes...