Apartment 3-G is an American newspaper comic strip about a trio of career women (though the strip's title perhaps refers to them as "3-Girls") who share an apartment (Apartment 3-G) in Manhattan. The syndicated strip, created by Nicholas P. Dallis, debuted May 8, 1961, with art by Alex Kotzky. Its content was influenced by the pioneering soap opera strip Mary Worth. [1]
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[edit] Characters
The three main characters are Margo Magee, a brunette secretary, actors' agent, publicist, and event planner; Abigail "Tommie" Thompson, a redheaded nurse; and Lu Ann Powers née Wright, a blonde art teacher and widow of a U.S. Air Force pilot. Kindly neighbor Professor Aristotle Papagoras serves as a father figure.
Lu Ann, originally single, met her husband and married in the sixties, after which she moved out of the apartment, to be replaced by another blonde, Beth. Lu Ann's husband, however, was killed in Vietnam, and she eventually moved back to the apartment.
The depictions of the three main characters are loosely based on real actors. Tommie is based on Lucille Ball, Margo on Joan Collins, and Lu Ann on Tuesday Weld.[2]
[edit] Creative team
The strip's first artist was Alex Kotzky, who drew in a photorealistic style, and spent over 30 years as the artist of Apartment 3-G. After writer Dallis died in 1991, Kotzky took over the scripting of the strip, as well as the artwork, until his own death in 1996. At this time, his son, Brian Kotzky, took over as the artist of Apartment 3-G, while Lisa Trusiani became the writer. The strip's art was taken over by Frank Bolle in 2000 when Brian Kotzky decided to leave the comic strip to become a teacher. Writer Margaret Shulock succeeded Trusiani later.
Dallis, formerly a psychiatrist, also created the soap opera comic strips Rex Morgan, M.D. and Judge Parker. Alex Kotzky received the 1968 National Cartoonist Society Story Comic Strip Award for his work on the strip.
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Don Markstein's Toonopedia http://www.toonopedia.com/marywrth.htm
- ^ Apartment 3G
[edit] References
- Apartment 3-G at Comics Curmudgeon
- Apartment 3-G at King Features
- Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Apartment 3-G
- National Cartoonist Society Awards