Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Phyllis Diller" in English language version.
by Rhonda R. McClure, hosted at www.genealogy.com
There is also evidence in the [Diller archive...at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.] file suggesting that Diller appropriated from other sources [apart from self-creation or using her writing team], including newspaper comic strips and comedy books. For example, a number of Diller's jokes about her dysfunctional marriage to her fictional husband 'Fang' appear to have been inspired by a comic strip, 'The Lockhorns,' that Diller followed obsessively over the course of nearly a decade. The Diller joke files contain hundreds of 'Lockhorns' panels cut out of newspapers and mounted on index cards.
Videotaped for KGO-TV, Channel 7, San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 20, 1968
by Rhonda R. McClure, hosted at www.genealogy.com