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Little Lulu is a comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell. She first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel comic strip, appearing in her debut as a flower girl at a wedding, strewing the aisle with banana peels. The strip ran until 1948.

Supporting characters include her friends Tubby Tompkins, Alvin, Ol' Witch Hazel, and Li'l Itch. Lulu's last name is Moppet.

In the mid-1940s, Lulu appeared in a series of theatrical animated shorts produced by Famous Studios for Paramount from 1943-48. According to Don Markstein's Toonpedia, a similar character, Little Audrey, was then created after Paramount failed to renew the Lulu licence (and therefore avoiding the payment of royalty fees).

The Paramount Little Lulu cartoons were sold to U.M.&M. T.V. Corp. in 1956, along with many other Paramount shorts. National Telefilm Associates purchased these shorts not long afterward, and syndicated them to television. These cartoons were released by NTA on home video in the 1980's.

Also during this time, Little Lulu appeared in 10 issues of Dell Comics' Four Color comic book series (#74, 97, 110, 115, 120, 131, 139, 146, 158, 165) before graduating to her own title. With the Dell Comics/Western Publishing split that created Gold Key Comics, Little Lulu went to Gold Key and was published into the 1980s.

Artist John Stanley's work on the Little Lulu comic book is highly regarded. He did the initial Lulu comics, later working with artist Irv Trip. He continued working on the comic until c. 1961. Stanley is responsible for the many additional characters in the stories. His work has been collected in a series of hardcovers by Gladstone Comics in the 1980s.

In 1995, Lulu again appeared in The Little Lulu Show, an animated television series on HBO, voiced by Tracey Ullman. The series was produced by Canada's Cinar Films. Earlier, in 1976, Japan's Nippon Animation studio had produced a 26-episode Little Lulu anime, titled Little Lulu to Chicchai Nakama ("Little Lulu and Her Little Friends"); an English dub of this series was made by ZIV International, and the series was also released in Spanish, Italian, and Arabic. Additionally, Little Lulu has been used as a "spokestoon" for Kleenex.

In 2004, Dark Horse Comics obtained the rights to reprint the Little Lulu comics. Seven volumes have been published through 2005.

# My Dinner with Lulu ISBN 1-59307-318-6 (reprints Four Color Comics #74, 97, 110, 115, 120) # Sunday Afternoon ISBN 1-59307-345-3 (reprints Four Color Comics #131, 139, 146, 158) # In The Doghouse ISBN 1-59307-345-3 (reprints Four Color Comics #165 and Little Lulu #1-5) # Lulu Goes Shopping ISBN 1-59307-270-8 (reprints Little Lulu #6-12) # Lulu Takes a Trip ISBN 1-59307-317-8 (reprints Little Lulu #13-17) # Letters to Santa ISBN 1-59307-386-0 (reprints Little Lulu #18-22) # Lulu's Umbrella Service ISBN 1-59307-399-2 (reprints Little Lulu #23-27) # Late for School ISBN 1-59307-453-0 (in February, reprints Little Lulu #??) # Lucky Lulu ISBN 1-59307-471-9 (in April, reprints Little Lulu #??) # All Dressed Up ISBN 1-59307-534-0 (in June, reprints Little Lulu #??)

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