Editing Droodles (section)

==Origins==

The trademarked name "Droodle" suggests "[[doodle]]", "[[drawing]]" and "[[riddle]]".<ref>Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj, ''Riddles: Perspectives on the use, function and change in a folklore genre'', Studia Fennica Folkloristica, 10 (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2001), p. 62, http://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/detail/12/riddles/.</ref> However, the form of the droodle{{snd}}a riddle expressed in visual form{{snd}}has earlier roots, for example in a drawing (''indovinelli grafici'') by the Italian painter Agostino Carracci (1557–1602), and the term is widely used beyond Price's work.<ref name=Voolaid>Piret Voolaid, 'Preface', ''Estonian Droodles'',  http://www.folklore.ee/Droodles/saatesona</ref>

''Droodles'' are (or were) purely a form of [[entertainment]] like any other nonsense cartoon and appeared in roughly the same places ([[newspaper]]s, paperback collections, [[graffiti|bathroom wall]]s) during their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. The commercial success of Price's collections of ''Droodles'' led to the founding of the publishing house [[Price Stern Sloan|Price-Stern-Sloan]], and also to the creation of a Droodles-themed [[game show]], ''Droodles'', on [[NBC]] in 1954.<ref name=etvs>Terrace, Vincent (2011). ''Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-6477-7}}. P. 288.</ref> Series of newspaper advertisements for the News and [[Kent (cigarette)|Max]] brands of cigarettes featured cigarette-themed Droodles.<ref name=price/>