Sadie Hawkins Day, usually celebrated in the US on 29th February, is named after a character in which Al Capp comic strip?
Sadie Hawkins dance Sadie Hawkins dance In the United States and Canada, the Sadie Hawkins Dance is a usually informal dance sponsored by a high school, middle school or college, in which female students invite male students. This is contrary to the custom of male students typically inviting female students to school dances such as prom in the spring and homecoming in the fall. The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the "Li'l Abner" comic strip character Sadie Hawkins, created by cartoonist Al Capp. In the strip, Sadie Hawkins Day fell on a given day in November (Capp never specified an exact date).
Sadie Hawkins Day p. 8.) During 1939, only two years after its inauguration, a double-page spread in "Life" magazine proclaimed, "On Sadie Hawkins Day, Girls Chase Boys in 201 Colleges" and printed pictures from Texas Wesleyan. Capp originally created it as a comic plot device, but by the early 1940s the comic strip event had acquired a life of its own. By 1952, Sadie Hawkins Day was reportedly celebrated at 40,000 known venues. It became a day-long event observed in the United States on the first Saturday after November 9. The practical basis of a real Sadie Hawkins Day is one of simple