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. Created by Nicholas P. Dallis with art by Alex Kotzky, the strip began May 8, 1961, initially distributed by the short-lived Publishers Syndicate which soon merged with King Features Syndicate. Its content was influenced by the pioneering soap opera strip Mary Worth and Rona Jaffe's bestselling 1958 novel The Best of Everything.[1]
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Characters and story
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 1960s, after which she moved out of the apartment to be replaced by another blonde, Beth. Lu Ann's husband was killed in Vietnam, and she eventually moved back into 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]
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 as well as the artwork until his death in 1996. Then his son, Brian Kotzky, stepped in as the Apartment 3-G artist, while Lisa Trusiani became the writer. The strip's art was taken over by Frank Bolle in 2000 when Brian Kotzky left to become a teacher. Writer Margaret Shulock later succeeded Trusiani.
Dallis, formerly a psychiatrist, also created the soap opera comic strips Rex Morgan, M.D. and Judge Parker.
Awards
Alex Kotzky received the 1968 National Cartoonist Society Story Comic Strip Award for his work on the strip.
See also
References
External links
- Comics Curmudgeon: Apartment 3-G
- King Features Syndicate: Apartment 3-G
- Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Apartment 3-G
- National Cartoonist Society Awards
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