Comic Strip History - Jiggs Dinner
This is a short follow-up to my previous post. Last month, while researching Dinty Moore specifically and Bringing Up Father generally, I came across…
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Comic Strip History - Dinty Moore
Once again, coming to you from the "I had no idea how complicated this would be when I started" department, we have Dinty Moore, the well known brand…
Comic Strip History - The Grawlix
In times past, when I've covered words or phrases that originated in a comic strip, generally they had a major effect only on the English language,…
Unexpected Comic Strip Creators - Charles Addams
Charles Addams is best known as the creator of The Addams Family, a group of strange, monster movie adjacent characters who first appeared as…
Unexpected Comic Strip Creators - Stan and Jan Berenstain
Stan and Jan Berenstain (not Berenstein, and no we will not be discussing the Mandela Effect today) are of course best known for creating the series…
The Dropouts, December 31, 1971
Click the image to see a larger version. Howard Post is best known for his work on various Harvey Comics publications, most notably Casper the…
Penny, December 28, 1961
Click the image to see a larger version. It's about time to wind down the Christmas season, and wind down the year, but of course people like to…
The Flibbertys, December 25, 1954
Click the image to see a larger version. Unlike the last Flibbertys comic I posted, this time it's spelled correctly on the page. Similar to that…
Big Sister, December 28, 1954
Click the image to see a larger version. As you can probably gather from the dialogue in this strip, Big Sister and the boys found a lost puppy at…
Off The Record, December 25, 1954
Click the image to see a larger version. Earlier this month I posted an Off The Record Sunday, noting that it was still a mystery to me why the Lambi…
There Ougtha Be A Law, December 25, 1971
Click the image to see a larger version. A reminder to always write your gags and draw your comics far ahead of deadline so you don't end up working…
Channel Chuckles, December 24, 1954
Click the image to see a larger version. Here's another pre-Family Circus era Billy on Bil Keane's first syndicated comic strip, Channel Chuckles. I…
The Flibbertys, December 23, 1954
Click the image to see a larger version. The Flibbertys (misspelled here as "The Fibbertys") was a comic strip created by Ray Helle in September…
This Funny World, December 8, 1967
Click the image to see a larger version. This Funny World was an interesting strip. There was no consistent cartoonist, because it essentially…
Gasoline Alley, December 20, 1954
Click the image to see a larger version. Gasoline Alley has been featured several times on this blog before, but it just continues to be a wonderful…
Big Sister, December 21,1954
Click the image to see a larger version. Big Sister was created by Les Forgrave in 1928. Forgrave wrote and drew it until his death in 1953. It was…
The Toodles, December 20, 1953
Click the image to see a larger version. The Toodles was a domestic, family comic strip written by husband and wife team Stanley and Betsy Baer, and…
Moon Mullins, December 20, 1941
Click the image to see a larger version. Kayo once again needs to borrow money in order to buy a Christmas present, and Mamie is kind enough to be…
Side Glances, December 3, 1953
Click the image to see a larger version. Side Glances was a comic panel created by George Clark in 1928, which ran all the way up to 1985. Clark…
Smidgens, December 05, 1967
Click the image to see a larger version. Another Christmas obscurity, Smidgens was created by Bob Cordray in 1961 and ran until 1974. According to Al…
Off the Record, December 18, 1938
Click the image to see a larger version. A few years ago, I posted an Off the Record comic during December, which caused confusion when I looked up…
Lolly, December 5, 1965
Click the image to see a larger version. Lolly, by Pete Hansen, was a comic strip about a young woman named Lolly who lived with her grandmother and…
Smitty, December 20, 1953
Click the image to see a larger version. Smitty started life in 1922 as a 13-year-old office boy (you may have seen him on this blog before). Here we…
Bessie, December 22, 1947
Click the image to see a larger version. Bessie by Nick Penn is another comic strip obscurity that I couldn't find much information on. It was…
The Timid Soul, December 21, 1947
Click the image to see a larger version. I always love returning to Caspar Milquetoast, because I feel a certain kinship with him. While I make gifts…
Mr. and Mrs., December 21, 1947
Click the image to see a larger version. It looks like Mr. has taken Thornsby's advice from yesterday and read A Christmas Carol, which has…
Thornsby, December 5, 1974
Click the image to see a larger version. Thornsby was a single panel comic that ran from 1973 to 1975. It seems to be a bit of an obscurity, as I…
Our Boarding House, December 1, 1957
Click the image to see a larger version. Last time I posted Our Boarding House for Christmas was way back in 2016, so it's high time for another one.…
Tell It Like It Is, December 2, 1974
Click the image to see a larger version. Ralph Dunagin was an editorial cartoonist for the Orlando Sentinel who also worked on a few syndicated comic…
Henry, December 1, 1957
Click the image to see a larger version. Henry is so ubiquitous when I'm searching through old newspapers for winter and Christmas themed comic…