Ms. Fanservice/Newspaper Comics

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Almost any female character in Li'l Abner who wasn't an old lady, especially Daisy Mae, Stupifyin' Jones, Moonbeam McSwine and the Wolf Gal. Since the strip started in 1934, this means it's Older Than Television.
  • Tiffany, The Alpha Bitch from Luann, is this for the strip, giving much Snark Bait to online fans, considering the head writer is over 60, and Tiffany's a teenager. One memorable strip featured her in a string bikini, and most of the time she's just in a cheerleader outfit.
  • The British wartime newspaper comic Jane featured a title character who was always willing to help the war effort--which usually involved losing her clothes in some way. In Real Life, it was claimed that this actually helped boost troop morale. This may have been the first newspaper strip ever to include complete nudity, and was seen as unbelievably daring at the time.
    • There were rumours that when she appeared completely starkers it would be D-Day. Sir Winston Churchill personally intervened on the matter to make it so.
  • Modesty Blaise frequently depicted its title character in various states of undress, contrary to her name.
  • Ms. Buxley, from Beetle Bailey. She was even more so earlier in the 1970s and '80s.
  • June Morgan, the wife and nurse of Rex Morgan, M.D., drawn with a Patrick Nagel face and... prominent attributes.
  • La Mulatona from Clemente. The artists even mix in some Fetish Fuel when they show Clemente swimming between her breasts (a common scene in macrophile porn) a running gag.
  • Gaturranta in the very first strips of Gaturro.
  • Irish Coffee's stripper girlfriend.
  • Wally Wood's Sally Forth, done originally for military papers, used any excuse to get the buxom but naive titular character out of her clothes. Not to be confused with the present-day strip of this name, which is about a fully clothed housewife.
  • Little Ego. Ego exists solely to lose her clothes and get caught in erotic situations.
  • Liz, Jon Arbuckle's girlfriend in Garfield. Seen here. Yes, Garfield has fanservice. It's a new day.
    • Um, played in the movies by Jennifer Love Hewitt. So, yeah.
  • Aunt Fritzi in Nancy.

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