Witches Live Forever

Back in this post, we noted that my pal Russell Myers has been drawing his newspaper strip Broom-Hilda with no assistance since it debuted back in April of 1970. That's over 19,000 daily and Sunday strips and he ain't about to stop. As you probably would assume, newspaper strip artists work way ahead of schedule and Russell is way, way ahead. If he quit tomorrow, which he has no intention of doing, he already has enough Broom-Hilda strips completed to take him over the 20,000 mark.

A lot of folks seem to think Charles Schulz holds the record but he only did a paltry 17,897 published Peanuts strips. I have a lot of comic strip experts reading this site and I asked if anyone could come up with a run that beats Russell's streak. No one has yet.

A couple of folks wondered if Gus Arriolo, who drew Gordo, would qualify. Nope. Gordo — a wonderful and underrated strip, by the way — started November 24, 1941 and ended March 2, 1985. I don't know if it always had a Sunday page but even if it did, the span between those two dates is 15,804 days.

So I'm declaring Myers the winner and I'm now asking the many reporters who read this blog — some of whom report for pretty important outlets — who wants to be the first person to write an article about this record-breaker? I will gladly assist in helping you assemble your story and my contact info is in the grey margin on this page. Let's publicize this awesome achievement! Anyone know how we submit this to the Guinness Book of World Records?