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===In print=== Franklin Loufrani used the word smiley when he designed a smiling face for the newspaper he was working for at the time. The Loufrani design came in 1971, when Loufrani designed a smiley face for the newspaper, ''[[France-Soir]]''. The newspaper used Loufrani's smiley to highlight stories that they defined as ''"feel-good news."''<ref name="vice2" /> This particular smiley went onto form [[The Smiley Company]]. [[Mad (magazine)|''Mad'']] magazine notably used the smiley a year later in 1972 across their entire front page for the April edition of the magazine. This was one of the first instances that the smiling face had been adapted, with one of the twenty visible smileys pulling a face.<ref>{{cite news |title=Front cover of Mad |issue=150 |publisher=[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]] |date=April 1972 |pages=1}}</ref> In the [[United States]], there were many instances of smiling faces in the 1900s. However, the first industry to mass adopt the smiley was in [[comics]] and cartoons. The logo for and cover of the omnibus edition of the ''[[Watchmen]]'' comic book series is a smiley badge, worn by the character the Comedian, with blood splattered on it from the murder which initiates the events of the story. In the [[DC Comics]], shady businessman "[[Boss Smiley]]" (a political boss with a smiley face for a head) makes several appearances.<ref name=TrueStory>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rushordertees.com/blog/smiley-face-history/ |title=The True Story of The Smiley Face T-shirt by Imri Merritt, August 15, 2022 |access-date=20 February 2024 |archive-date=20 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220192952/https://www.rushordertees.com/blog/smiley-face-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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