Brother Sebastian
{{Short description|American comic strip by Chon Day}}
Brother Sebastian was an American pantomime gag cartoon series, created by Chon Day. It ran from 1954 until 1971 in Look.{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/04/26/Cartooning-for-more-than-50-years-Chon-Day-still-looks-for-punch-line/1745420177600/|title=Cartooning for more than 50 years, Chon Day still looks for punch line|website=Upi.com|access-date=17 December 2021}} The cartoons center on a spectacled Roman Catholic monk. All cartoons are one-panel and although occasionally signs are used there is no use of dialogue, making it a classic example of a pantomime comic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/day_chon.htm|title=Chon Day|website=Lambiek.net|access-date=17 December 2021}}
Books
These cartoons were collected in several Doubleday books, Brother Sebastian, Brother Sebastian Carries On and Brother Sebastian at Large (1961), reprinted in paperback by Pocket Books.
Day received the National Cartoonists Society's Special Features Award for 1969 for his work on Brother Sebastian cartoons.
References
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External links
- [http://www.reuben.org National Cartoonists Society Awards]
Category:American comic strips
Category:Comics characters introduced in 1954
Category:Male characters in comics
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