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{{Short description|American comic strip by Frank Godwin and Rod Reed}}
{{Infobox Comic strip
{{Infobox Comic strip
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|caption=''Rusty Riley'' (March 29, 1959)
|caption=''Rusty Riley'' (March 29, 1959)
|creator=[[Frank Godwin]], Rod Reed
|creator=[[Frank Godwin]], Rod Reed
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|status=Concluded
|status=Daily and Sunday; concluded
|syndicate=[[King Features Syndicate]]
|syndicate=[[King Features Syndicate]]
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|genre=Adventure
|genre=Adventure
|first=January 26, 1948
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'''Rusty Riley''' was an American comic strip which ran from 1948 to 1959. It was created and drawn by [[Frank Godwin]] for [[King Features Syndicate|King Features]].
'''''Rusty Riley''''' is an American adventure comic strip which ran from 1948 to 1959.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |page=338}}</ref> It was created and drawn by [[Frank Godwin]] for [[King Features Syndicate|King Features]].


==Characters and story==
==Characters and story==
With art by Godwin and scripts by Rod Reed, the first ''Rusty Riley'' daily appeared on January 26, 1948.<ref name=toonopedia>[http://toonopedia.com/rustyri.htm ''Rusty Riley''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [http://www.webcitation.org/6XnIVdsEa Archived] from the original on April 14, 2015.</ref> The storyline follows the adventures of a redheaded orphan youth, Rusty Riley, who flees the orphanage with his faithful fox terrier, Flip. In the [[bluegrass]] region of Kentucky, he is hired as a stable boy by wealthy racehorse owner Mr. Miles, owner of Milestone Farm. Encountering crooks and corruption as he grows up in the world of horse racing and horse breeders, Rusty's goal is to establish himself as a jockey. Rusty's girlfriend is Patty Miles, the daughter of his boss.<ref name=karlen />
With art by Godwin and scripts by Rod Reed, the first ''Rusty Riley'' daily appeared on January 26, 1948.<ref name=toonopedia>[http://toonopedia.com/rustyri.htm ''Rusty Riley''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://archive.today/20150414233059/http://toonopedia.com/rustyri.htm Archived] from the original on April 14, 2015.</ref> The storyline follows the adventures of a redheaded orphan youth, Rusty Riley, who flees the orphanage with his faithful fox terrier, Flip. In the [[Bluegrass region]] of Kentucky, he is hired as a stable boy by wealthy racehorse owner Mr. Miles, owner of Milestone Farm. Encountering crooks and corruption as he grows up in the world of horse racing and horse breeders, Rusty's goal is to establish himself as a jockey. Rusty's girlfriend is Patty Miles, the daughter of his boss.<ref name=karlen />


Godwin made research trips to [[Lexington, Kentucky]], when he began drawing the strip, but complaints about the appearance of horses and farms led to a return visit, as described by comics historian Dave Karlen:
Godwin made research trips to [[Lexington, Kentucky]], when he began drawing the strip, but complaints about the appearance of horses and farms led to a return visit, as described by comics historian Dave Karlen:
:Instead of ignoring these complaints, as some cartoonists might have done, Godwin made another trip to Lexington to visit his critics. For more than a week, he toured the central Kentucky horse farms, took pictures and made numerous sketches of the horses, fences, gates, barns, farm homes, horse cemeteries, country lanes, trees, and other references necessary to make his strip correct. He talked with the thoroughbred horsemen, standard-bred horsemen, saddle horsemen, racetrack officials and newspapermen to get all the information he needed. He also took many pictures in and around the Keeneland and Lexington Trotting Tracks, which were a couple of the sites he later used frequently in his comic strip. Godwin was now ready to make his strip better than ever.<ref name=karlen>{{cite web | url=http://www.comicartville.com/rustyriley.htm | title= A Boy, A Horse and His Dog: The Story of ''Rusty Riley'' | first=Dave|last=Karlen| publisher=Comicartville.com | date= n.d.|accessdate= April 14, 2015| archivedate= September 18, 2001| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20010918123416/http://www.comicartville.com/rustyriley.htm | deadurl=no}}</ref>
:Instead of ignoring these complaints, as some cartoonists might have done, Godwin made another trip to Lexington to visit his critics. For more than a week, he toured the central Kentucky horse farms, took pictures and made numerous sketches of the horses, fences, gates, barns, farm homes, horse cemeteries, country lanes, trees, and other references necessary to make his strip correct. He talked with the thoroughbred horsemen, standard-bred horsemen, saddle horsemen, racetrack officials and newspapermen to get all the information he needed. He also took many pictures in and around the Keeneland and Lexington Trotting Tracks, which were a couple of the sites he later used frequently in his comic strip. Godwin was now ready to make his strip better than ever.<ref name=karlen>{{cite web | url=http://www.comicartville.com/rustyriley.htm | title= A Boy, A Horse and His Dog: The Story of ''Rusty Riley'' | first=Dave|last=Karlen| publisher=Comicartville.com | date= n.d.|access-date= April 14, 2015| archive-date= September 18, 2001| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010918123416/http://www.comicartville.com/rustyriley.htm | url-status=live}}</ref>


==Sunday strip==
==Sunday strip==
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The [[Sunday strip]] began five months later, on June 27, with Godwin illustrating scripts written either by Reed's brother Harold,<ref name=toonopedia /> or Godwin's brother Harold.<ref name=karlen />
The [[Sunday strip]] began five months later, on June 27, with Godwin illustrating scripts written either by Reed's brother Harold,<ref name=toonopedia /> or Godwin's brother Harold.<ref name=karlen />


The strip was running in approximately 150 newspapers when Godwin died in 1959<ref name=toonopedia /> at his home in [[New Hope, Pennsylvania]].{{cn}}
The strip was running in approximately 150 newspapers when Godwin died in 1959<ref name=toonopedia /> at his home in [[New Hope, Pennsylvania]].{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}


The final strips were drawn by [[Bob Lubbers]].{{cn}} <!--, who recalled, "In 1959 Frank Godwin, the artist who did ''Rusty Riley'', died. Sylvan Byck at King Features asked if I'd do the last two weeks in Godwin's style to end the series. I admired his book illustrations and was honored to have the privilege to do it."-->
[[Bob Lubbers]] was an uncredited [[ghost artist]] on the strip at some unspecified point.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.accomics.com/accomics/accentral/masterworks.html | title = AC Central: Masterworks > Bob Lubbers | date= n.d. | publisher =[[AC Comics]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017161350/http://www.accomics.com/accomics/accentral/masterworks.html | archive-date= October 17, 2006}} (Requires scrolldown)</ref><!--, who recalled, "In 1959 Frank Godwin, the artist who did ''Rusty Riley'', died. Sylvan Byck at King Features asked if I'd do the last two weeks in Godwin's style to end the series. I admired his book illustrations and was honored to have the privilege to do it."-->


==Reprints==
==Reprints==
In 1952-53 [[Dell Comics]] reprinted four ''Rusty Riley'' stories in its Four Color Comics series.
[[Dell Comics]] reprinted ''Rusty Riley'' stories in the comic-book series ''[[Four Color]]'', in issues #418 ([[cover-date]]d Aug. 1952), #451 (Feb. 1953), #486 (Aug. 1953), and #554 (April 1954).<ref>[http://www.comics.org/character/name/Rusty%20Riley/sort/chrono/ Rusty Riley (character)] at the [[Grand Comics Database]].</ref>


In 2013, [[Classic Comics Press]] started a hardcover reprint series, with a reprint of dailies from 1948-49.{{cn}}
In 2013, [[Classic Comics Press]] started a hardcover reprint series, with a reprint of dailies from 1948-49.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}
{{-}}
{{-}}

==Foreign editions==
In Chile, it was published in weekly installments, composed of dailies arranged as comic book pages, translated as Pepe Rubio in the magazine El peneca, between 1957-58.

==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.comicartville.com/rustyriley.htm "The Story of ''Rusty Riley''" by Dave Karlen]
*[http://www.ilovecomixarchive.com/r/rusty-riley I Love Comix Archive: ''Rusty Riley'']
*[http://www.accomics.com/accomics/accentral/masterworks.html AC Central: Bob Lubbers]


{{King Features Syndicate Comics}}
{{King Features Syndicate Comics}}


[[Category:1948 comic debuts]]
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[[Category:1959 comics endings]]
[[Category:Adventure comics]]
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[[Category:American comic strips]]
[[Category:Comic strips started in the 1940s]]
[[Category:American comics characters|Riley, Rusty]]
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[[Category:Works about orphans]]
[[Category:Horse racing mass media]]
[[Category:Comics set on farms]]
[[Category:Comics set in the United States]]
[[Category:Orphan characters in comics|Riley, Rusty]]
[[Category:Comics characters introduced in 1948]]

Latest revision as of 04:26, 13 May 2024

Rusty Riley
Rusty Riley (March 29, 1959)
Author(s)Frank Godwin, Rod Reed
Current status/scheduleDaily and Sunday; concluded
Launch dateJanuary 26, 1948
End dateNovember 1, 1959
Syndicate(s)King Features Syndicate
Genre(s)Adventure

Rusty Riley is an American adventure comic strip which ran from 1948 to 1959.[1] It was created and drawn by Frank Godwin for King Features.

Characters and story

[edit]

With art by Godwin and scripts by Rod Reed, the first Rusty Riley daily appeared on January 26, 1948.[2] The storyline follows the adventures of a redheaded orphan youth, Rusty Riley, who flees the orphanage with his faithful fox terrier, Flip. In the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, he is hired as a stable boy by wealthy racehorse owner Mr. Miles, owner of Milestone Farm. Encountering crooks and corruption as he grows up in the world of horse racing and horse breeders, Rusty's goal is to establish himself as a jockey. Rusty's girlfriend is Patty Miles, the daughter of his boss.[3]

Godwin made research trips to Lexington, Kentucky, when he began drawing the strip, but complaints about the appearance of horses and farms led to a return visit, as described by comics historian Dave Karlen:

Instead of ignoring these complaints, as some cartoonists might have done, Godwin made another trip to Lexington to visit his critics. For more than a week, he toured the central Kentucky horse farms, took pictures and made numerous sketches of the horses, fences, gates, barns, farm homes, horse cemeteries, country lanes, trees, and other references necessary to make his strip correct. He talked with the thoroughbred horsemen, standard-bred horsemen, saddle horsemen, racetrack officials and newspapermen to get all the information he needed. He also took many pictures in and around the Keeneland and Lexington Trotting Tracks, which were a couple of the sites he later used frequently in his comic strip. Godwin was now ready to make his strip better than ever.[3]

Sunday strip

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Frank Godwin's Rusty Riley (December 1, 1959)

The Sunday strip began five months later, on June 27, with Godwin illustrating scripts written either by Reed's brother Harold,[2] or Godwin's brother Harold.[3]

The strip was running in approximately 150 newspapers when Godwin died in 1959[2] at his home in New Hope, Pennsylvania.[citation needed]

Bob Lubbers was an uncredited ghost artist on the strip at some unspecified point.[4]

Reprints

[edit]

Dell Comics reprinted Rusty Riley stories in the comic-book series Four Color, in issues #418 (cover-dated Aug. 1952), #451 (Feb. 1953), #486 (Aug. 1953), and #554 (April 1954).[5]

In 2013, Classic Comics Press started a hardcover reprint series, with a reprint of dailies from 1948-49.[citation needed]

Foreign editions

[edit]

In Chile, it was published in weekly installments, composed of dailies arranged as comic book pages, translated as Pepe Rubio in the magazine El peneca, between 1957-58.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 338. ISBN 9780472117567.
  2. ^ a b c Rusty Riley at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Karlen, Dave (n.d.). "A Boy, A Horse and His Dog: The Story of Rusty Riley". Comicartville.com. Archived from the original on September 18, 2001. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  4. ^ "AC Central: Masterworks > Bob Lubbers". AC Comics. n.d. Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. (Requires scrolldown)
  5. ^ Rusty Riley (character) at the Grand Comics Database.
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