misspeach

CREATOR

Name: Melvin R. Lazarus (See Comments).
Personal dates: Born 1927 in New York, USA.
Other creations: Momma.
Successors: None.
Comments: Lazarus usually used the signature 'Mell' in Miss Peach, and 'Mell Lazarus' in Momma.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1957. Stopped in 2002.

The series star an elementary school teacher and the rowdy kids in her class at the Kelly School. She is miss Peach and the kids are numerous and changing; most seen are Arthur, Ida, and Marcia. All kids in the series are extremely small but with large heads, and is seen in sharp contrast to the adults who seem extremely tall and with normal proportions.

The series is one of the first 'flounder-face comics', meaning that the characters' two eyes are both visible from the side from which they are shown in the panels.

In the 1990s the series changed its name to Ms. Peach.