Inside Woody Allen
Template:Short description Template:Infobox comic strip Inside Woody Allen is an American gag-a-day celebrity comics comic strip about the comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen. Drawn by Stuart Hample, the strip ran from October 4, 1976, to April 8, 1984.<ref name=Holtz>Template:Cite book</ref>
The strip's first year was credited to a pseudonym, Joe Marthen. Hample's name appeared on the strip starting September 19, 1977.<ref name=Holtz />
Characters and storyEdit
The strip was based on Allen's comedic persona and focused on his neuroses, angst, sexual frustration and frequent psychiatric treatment.<ref name=Hample2009>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Writers for the strip included David Weinberger.<ref name=Hample2009/>
Collected editionsEdit
A collection of some strips was published in 1978 as Non-Being and Somethingness: Selections from the Comic Strip Inside Woody Allen (Template:ISBN) and features an introduction by Buckminster Fuller. Another volume, Dread and Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip was published in 2009 (Template:ISBN).
In Annie HallEdit
Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall contains an animated sequence based on Hample's artwork, though the actual animation was done by Chris Ishii.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
Template:King Features Syndicate Comics Template:Woody Allen Template:Comic-strip-stub