| Gil Thorp | |
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| 240px Gil Thorp coaching a Milford football player |
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| Author(s) | Jack Berrill (creator) Neal Rubin (writer) Rod Whigham (artist) |
| Website | gocomics.com/gilthorp |
| Current status / schedule | Running |
| Launch date | September 8, 1958[1] |
| Syndicate(s) | Tribune Media Services |
| Genre(s) | Sports |
Gil Thorp is a sports-oriented comic strip which has been published since September 8, 1958. The main character, Gil Thorp, is the athletic director of Milford High School and coaches the football, basketball, and baseball teams. In addition to the sports storylines, the strip also deals with issues facing teenagers such as teen pregnancy, steroids, and drug abuse.
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History [link]
The strip was created by Jack Berrill, who modeled and named Thorp after baseball player Gil Hodges and Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe. Berrill continued the strip until he died of cancer on March 14, 1996. Over the course of his 38 years, Berrill broke ground with many of his stories, often dealing with sensitive social issues of the day. As editorial standards relaxed, he was able to move from stories about jalopies and after-school jobs to topics like teen pregnancy, divorce, and steroids.[1]
Writers [link]
Upon Berrill's death, Tribune Media Services chose author Jerry Jenkins (co-author of the Left Behind novels) to take over writing the strip.[2] Jenkins had been in negotiations with TMS about expanding previous Gil Thorp stories into a series of youth novels and was a convenient replacement. Jenkins was hand picked by Berrill. Many of Jenkins' stories were written uncredited by his son Chad Jenkins, a baseball coach at Bethel College. The Jenkins stories discussed overtly religious topics which had not appeared in the strip before, including an apparently Orthodox Jewish football player[3] and a 15-year-old pregnant girl whom Thorp talks out of getting an abortion.[4]
In 2004, Jenkins was followed as writer by Detroit News columnist Neal Rubin.[5][1]
Artists [link]
The strip was drawn by Berrill from 1958-1993 until glaucoma forced him to turn the reins over to his Connecticut Cartoonist Associate colleague Warren Sattler. Later Frank Bolle took over. Later Ray Burns took over. Frank McLaughlin took over following Burns' death in 2000. On February 18, 2008, Apartment 3G artist Frank Bolle again took over art chores for Gil Thorp on an interim basis. Rod Whigham became the permanent artist two months later.[6]
References [link]
- ^ a b c Downey, Mike (September 7, 2008). "Timeless classic Gil Thorp looks at life on and off the fields of play". Chicago Tribune. https://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-09-07/sports/0809060122_1_gil-thorp-neal-rubin-comic-strip. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
- ^ Miner, Michael (February 5, 1998). "Good Sports, Bad Sports". Chicago Reader. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/good-sports-bad-sports-tribs-buddy-system/Content?oid=895476. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
- ^ Fleishman, Daniel (August 28, 2001). "Who Was That Yarmulke-topped Man? 'Gil Thorp' Strip Gets Sabbath-observant Character". Jewish World Review.
- ^ Miner, Michael (April 17, 2003). "Gil Thorp Gets Benched". Chicago Reader. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/gil-thorp-gets-benchedfor-a-moment-we-were-scaredsafety-secondwhile-they-were-sleeping/Content?oid=911807. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
- ^ "Rubin Debut Ends "Passion of Gil Thorp"". The Comics Reporter. April 17, 2004. https://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/resources/longbox/2089/. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
- ^ "New Artist Set to Take Over Gil Thorp Strip". Chicago Tribune. March 3, 2008.
External links [link]
- Gil Thorp on GoComics.com
- "Gil Thorp Gets Benched" by Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, April 18, 2003
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Thorp
Thorp is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village, from Old English (Anglo-Saxon)/Old Norse þorp (also thorp). There are many place names in England with the suffix "-thorp" or "-thorpe". Most are in West Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk but some are in Surrey.
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) þorp is cognate with Low-Saxon trup/trop/drup/drop as in Handrup or Waltrop, Frisian terp, German torp or dorf as in Düsseldorf, the 'Village of the river Düssel', and Dutch dorp.
