From The Scoop: Did You Know…? – Juliet Jones
From the January 13 issue of Gemstone Publishing's The
Scoop:
Full of petulance and swooning, The Heart of Juliet Jones is the kind of comic strip that did best before shows like Santa Barbara and Passions came to television ascendance.
It debuted in 1953, under the direction of writer Elliott Caplin and artist Stan Drake.
Caplin, brother of more famous cartoonist Al Capp, brought the exploits of the 30-something Juliet to the masses in a sensitive and sophisticated way--without making the character as mopey or brazen as readers may have expected. Possibly unmarried because of her role in helping to raise her younger sister, Eve, and aiding her father after her mother's death, Juliet took most of her circumstance in stride and only dated every now and again--usually choosing to court promising lawyer Owen Cantrell.
Over the strip's long run, Juliet and Owen married in 1970. The strip would run in select newspapers for another 30 years, but Owen would not last as long as the series. He was killed and Juliet was widowed in the mid-1980s. She never remarried (or aged) and eventually faded from view by the late 1990s.
• Produced for the benefit of all who enjoy the hobby of collecting, Gemstone Publishing's The Scoop is available free of charge to anyone who wishes to receive it. To view the latest edition, or to sign up, visit The Scoop online by at http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com.
Full of petulance and swooning, The Heart of Juliet Jones is the kind of comic strip that did best before shows like Santa Barbara and Passions came to television ascendance.
It debuted in 1953, under the direction of writer Elliott Caplin and artist Stan Drake.
Caplin, brother of more famous cartoonist Al Capp, brought the exploits of the 30-something Juliet to the masses in a sensitive and sophisticated way--without making the character as mopey or brazen as readers may have expected. Possibly unmarried because of her role in helping to raise her younger sister, Eve, and aiding her father after her mother's death, Juliet took most of her circumstance in stride and only dated every now and again--usually choosing to court promising lawyer Owen Cantrell.
Over the strip's long run, Juliet and Owen married in 1970. The strip would run in select newspapers for another 30 years, but Owen would not last as long as the series. He was killed and Juliet was widowed in the mid-1980s. She never remarried (or aged) and eventually faded from view by the late 1990s.
• Produced for the benefit of all who enjoy the hobby of collecting, Gemstone Publishing's The Scoop is available free of charge to anyone who wishes to receive it. To view the latest edition, or to sign up, visit The Scoop online by at http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com.
