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).

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Stuart Hample's Inside Woody Allen (January 27, 1980).

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>

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