The Elf Squad
(La Elfa Roto)
I created the cartoon strip The Elf Squad in the early 1970's. It first
appeared in Montage, the school newspaper for Meramec
Community College in Kirkwood, Missouri. The strip then moved with me
to UMSL Current, the school newspaper at the University
of Missouri, St.Louis. The strip survived for
another year or two after I graduated when a group of cartoonists (including me) formed
a short lived company called Polygraphics, which sold
cartoons to college newspapers around the country. Well, a few, anyway.
The strip came back professionally one more time when a company called
The Cartoon Factory, Ltd. picked it up. This company
sold cartoon strips to weekly community newspapers for about a year
before it folded.
The Elf Squad languished after that, until I was commissioned
to draw four more cartoons for the amazingly long-lived science fiction
fanzine Science Fiction Five-Yearly. (It helps that I
know the publisher.)
The Elf Squad then appeared in
The Bear Facts, the school paper of Plainview High
School in Rainsville, Alabama for a few years. So the strip pops us
every now and then, never making it big, but
refusing to die altogether.
Summary of the characters
View all of the online cartoons in sequence.
You can also view the cartoons individually (see below).
Part of the 1981-1982 run with The Cartoon Factory, Ltd.
Part of the 1996 run in Science Fiction Five-Yearly
Part of the series sent to The Bear Facts
© 2006 Gary Ross Hoffman
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