Friday Foster
Friday Foster is an American newspaper comic strip, created and written by Jim Lawrence and later continued by Jorge Longarón. It ran from January 18, 1970 to February 17, 1974 and was notable for featuring one of the first African-American women as the title character in a comic strip. Jackie Ormes's Torchy predated it.History
After two years of development, the strip was illustrated by Spanish cartoonist Jorge Longarón and syndicated by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. The strip focused on the glamorous life of its title character, a former fashion model who became an assistant to a top fashion photographer, as described by comics historian Dave Karlen:
Artist Frank Springer did a small amount uncredited work on the strip, recalling in the mid-2000s, "I knew the writer, who lived here in New Jersey,... I got a call a couple of times from Lawrence who said they hadn't gotten the material through from Spain" and asked Springer to fill in. "I guess over the years I did two Sunday pages, maybe three."
Dell Comics published a single issue of a Friday Foster comic book, written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Jack Sparling.
In 1975, Friday Foster was adapted into a blaxploitation feature film of the same name, starring Pam Grier.
In September 2019, the Friday Foster character appeared in a Dick Tracy story drawn by Andrew Pepoy.
