Broom-Hilda is an American newspaper comic strip created by Russell Myers. It is distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and first ran in 1970. Myers won the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1975 for his work on the strip.
The original idea for the strip came from Elliott Caplin, brother of L'il Abner cartoonist Al Capp. He described the main character to Myers, who responded with a sketch of the witch and several sample strips. Caplin, acting as Myers' business manager, submitted the strip to the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, which quickly accepted the strip. The first strip ran on April 19, 1970 and became an immediate success. The strips have also been collected in several anthologies during the 1970s and 80s.
Caplin died in 2000. Myers continues to write and draw the strip. He is famous in the industry for compiling a large "back-log" of strips, in the event poor health were to prevent him from meeting his syndication requirements.
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