What comic strip character’s favorite interjection was “leapin’ lizards!”?
Little Annie Rooney royalties. A bitter Nolan retired from composing, and his song later became a favorite piano roll and calliope tune, heard at circuses and carousels. The lyrics make it clear that the Annie of the song and the Annie of the strip are two different characters: There is also a Scottish saying: "She is having an Annie Rooney," which means that someone is displaying rage and anger. Annie Rooney's pet expression was "Gloriosky!" That unique G-rated expletive and "Little Orphan Annie"'s "Leapin' lizards!" both found their way into the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim song, "Gee, Officer Krupke!", from "West Side
Eyebeam (comic strip) Eyebeam (comic strip) Eyebeam was a daily comic strip written and illustrated by Sam Hurt at the University of Texas at Austin. Unlike most college strips, its popularity led to a print life past Hurt's graduation. The strip ran in the college's "The Daily Texan" from 1980–1990, though examples from 1978-1979 exist. In 1983, Austin's daily paper, the "American-Statesman", picked up the strip. Other newspapers around the U.S. followed suit, although "Eyebeam"'s family of subscribers was never greater than a few dozen. By 1982, "Eyebeam"'s popularity was such that a monster character called Hank the Hallucination ran for the University