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Alley Oop
, the classic caveman comic strip created in 1933 by V.T. Hamlin, is drawn by Jack Bender and written by Carole Bender. The strip revolves around the irrepressible Alley Oop, who travels from prehistoric Moo all the way to the 21st century in his friend Doc Wonmug's time machine. Other favorite regulars in the strip include King Guz and Queen Umpa of Moo, Wonmug's assistants Oscar and Ava, and Alley Oop's girlfriend Ooola.
V.T. Hamlin worked on Alley Oop for 40 years. Hamlin hired writer Dave Graue to assist him in 1950, and Graue continued writing for the strip until 2001. Jack Bender joined Graue as an assistant artist in 1990, becoming the full-time Alley Oop artist a year later.
In 2001, upon Graue's retirement, Carole Bender began writing the strip. Like Hamlin, Jack Bender is a native Iowan and an alumnus of the University of Missouri. Bender was editorial cartoonist for the Waterloo (Iowa) Courier for 20 years. He taught a comics course at the University of Tulsa and was the assistant to cartoonist Don Martin on a strip called "The Nutheads." Carole Bender has been the letterer and general assistant on Alley Oop since 1992. She is a graphic artist and the author of Bob Gibson: I Come for to Sing (Folk Era Books, 1999). Carole is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Jack and Carole Bender are married and live in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Plus Licens represents United Feature Syndicate and Newspaper Enterprise Association for syndication rights to Alley Oop in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
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