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Rip Kirby is an American comic strip created by Alex Raymond and Ward Greene featuring the adventures of private detective Rip Kirby. The strip ran from 1946 to 1999 and was in the hands of artist John Prentice for more than 40 years.
Rip Kirby was based on the suggestion by King Features editor Ward Greene that Raymond try a "detective-type" strip. First published on March 4, 1946, the strip was given significant promotion by the syndicate, even including fully painted promotional art, a rarity in comic-strip promotions. The strip enjoyed success, and Raymond received the Reuben Award in 1949.
During Raymond's years on the strip, the stories were initially written by Ward Greene, and later, following Greene's death, by Fred Dickenson. Some sequences were also written by Raymond. In 1956, Raymond was killed in a car crash. King Features quickly needed a replacement, and found it in John Prentice. Dickenson continued to write the series until the mid-1980s, when he was forced to retire for health reasons. Prentice then took over the writing along with others. Prentice kept the strip going until his own death in 1999. The strip ended with Rip's retirement on June 26, 1999. Prentice received the National Cartoonists Society Story Comic Strip Award for 1966, 1967, and 1986 for his work on the strip.
Over the years of publication, the strip was Ghostwriter and assisted by many artists and writers, including Frank Bolle (who completed the last episode), Al Williamson,Yeates, Thomas, "Chapter 4: Atlas" in Yeates, Thomas, and Ringgenberg, S.C., eds. Al Williamson: Hidden Lands. Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books. (pp. 81-84) . and Gray Morrow. Gray Morrow at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013.
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The strip was published in a dozen comic book magazines in former Yugoslavia. In 1983 Radio Television of Serbia produced an educational series about comics, which included live action sequences featuring Nebojsa Krstic as Rip Kirby and Predrag Milinkovic as his butler. Milinkovic looked the part insomuch that he was nicknamed Desmond. From 2011 to 2019 Croatian publisher Fibra reprinted the complete 1946-1999 strip in 19 volumes.
| Preface (by Dean Mullaney); Crime does pay (by Tom Roberts); "The war made a realist out of me" (by Brian Walker) |
| Introduction (by Howard Chaykin); "Let's not slurp our soup" (by Brian Walker) |
| "Comic-Art Work is an Art-Form in Itself" (by Brian Walker) |
| "He was completely absorbed with Rip and seeking his own pleasures" (by Brian Walker) |
| "Getting Rip Kirby was the natural way for him to go" (by Brian Walker) |
| Introduction (by Brian Walker) |
| "Like father, like son" (by Brian Walker) |
| "John Prentice in his own words" (compiled by Brian Walker) |
| "The tenor of the times" (by Bruce Canwell) |
| "Untarnished after twenty-five years" (by Bruce Canwell) |
| "A Respite from the Headlines" |
| Dangerous Eyes | ||
| The Imposter | ||
| Kidders Treasure | ||
| Back to Harmony | ||
| Kidnapped | ||
| The Tiger Hunt | ||
| The Gold Curse | ||
| Desmond on the Run | ||
| The Narkobarons Castle | ||
| Gold from Heaven | ||
| The Pickpocket | ||
| The Stuntman | ||
| The Sea of Death | ||
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