Cover of The Wizard of Id: The Dailies & Sundays, 1971 (collection).
Author(s)
Johnny Hart (1964–2007) Brant Parker (1964–1997) Mason Mastroianni (2007–present)
Illustrator(s)
Brant Parker (1964–1997) Jeff Parker (1997–2015) Mason Mastroianni (2015–present)
Website
The Wizard of Id
Current status/schedule
Running
Launch date
November 16, 1964
Syndicate(s)
Publishers Newspaper Syndicate/North America Syndicate (1964–1989) Creators Syndicate (1989–present)
Genre(s)
Humor, Gag-a-day
The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning November 16, 1964,[1] the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called "Id". The title is a play on The Wizard of Oz, combined with the Freudian psychological term id, which represents the instinctive and primal part of the human psyche.
In 1997, Brant Parker passed his illustrator's duties on to his son, Jeff Parker, who had already been involved with creating Id for a decade. In 2002, the strip appeared in some 1,000 newspapers all over the world, syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Hart's grandson Mason Mastroianni took over writing duties on the strip after Hart's death in 2007.[2][3] The new byline, "B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart," appeared for the first time in another of their strips on January 3, 2010.[4] On December 14, 2015, Jeff Parker also passed his duties on to Mastroianni.[5]
^Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 416. ISBN 9780472117567.
^"'THE WIZARD OF ID' TURNS 50: Here and on the comics page, cartoonists celebrate the Hart/Parker strip's golden anniversary". The Washington Post, November 17, 2014
^"B.C. Team". John Hart Studios. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
^Gardner, Alan (January 5, 2010). "Mason Mastroianni Gains Byline on B.C. Strip". Daily Cartoonist.
^"December | 2015 | Wizard of Id". johnhartstudios.com. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
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