Mark Trail

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(person) by Jet-Poop (8.9 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Tue Oct 02 2001 at 21:03:57

American comic strip character. Created in 1946 by Ed Dodd and currently drawn by Jack Elrod, the strip currently appears in 175 newspapers. The main character, Mark Trail, is an clean-cut, sparkly outdoorsman who has various adventures against evil, often-unshaven villains who shout bad dialogue and commit a host of crimes, often environmental ones.

Nominally better than his daily strips, the Sunday Mark Trail comics tend to spotlight interesting facts about animals, plants, and nature in general. It often instructs readers about how to properly care for natural resources and stresses the importance of the preserving the environment for future generations.

Elrod has also produced educational material for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Mark Trail is the official spokesman--uhh, spokescartooncharacter--for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Though I like and respect the comic strip's attitude toward nature and environmental concerns, I must stand by my long-standing opinion that "Mark Trail" is a god-awful comic strip. But at least it's aged better than crap like "Mary Worth" and "Judge Parker"...

Research from http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mtrail/about.htm

Mary Worth	Judge Parker	If you fuck around with nature, nature will fuck around with you!	Facebook
comic strip	Pillows, disregarded	How I survived the Great Conclusion Jump of 1995	Comics
Sadie Hawkins day	Too Shy to be Pretty	The old oil seller judges archery	Family Circus
educational	newspaper	clean-cut	skeptic
Wandering Ones	Nature	environmental	environment

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