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Being an old newspaper junkie, I’m curious to know the names of the four newspapers. I assume two of them were the Sac Bee and the Sac Union. What were the others?
My favorite part of Dick Tracy on Sunday was the “Crime Stoppers” feature. One installment advised having the open part of hangars pointing in, making it easier to scoop up all your clothes in case the house catches on fire. I still do that today.
The SF Chron and the Examiner, before they got married (and then divorced). Dick Tracy was one of my faves also. I enjoyed the “Moon Maid” stories that most purists detested. And I’m still waiting for my wrist cell phone.
Oh yeah, and Gordo. I really miss Gus Arriola’s beautiful renderings.
Bob, you just made me remember that great philosopher, Pogo and is alligator friend Albert and all the characters in the Okefenokee swamp.
Mine was the Chicago Sun Times as a kid, although I remember getting the Chicago Daily News occasionally on week days because Mike Royko was a columnist there. Getting the Sunday New York Times was a treat, increasing in frequency during the Nixon administration…
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Even worst than the incredible shrinking of the Sunday comics is the disappearance of good Saturday morning cartoons… not to mention Mr. Wizard if I may date myself further.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t8PngHgWY
Clyde Crashcup and Leonardo were great. That’s gre for gre, and ate for ate. (He invented the stand-up bathtub, you know.)
My favorite Sunday comic strip was Alley Oop. I seldom understood what it meant, but I loved the artwork.
I read the LA Times and the Sunday comics were the best. We would also get the Long Beach Press Telegram from my grandparents. Of course I didn’t get they funnies until my dad was done with the paper. I do recognize most but not all of the characters. Reminded me of Bazooka Joe and the comic in Bazooka Bubble Gum. Always wanted that space phone they advertised on the comic.
Fleer’s Double-Bubble had great little tiny comics. I remember one character: Pud. Can’t remember his co-stars but it may have been Nancy. I can still remember the flavor of that first chew. I wish I had the teeth to chew some right now. Of course aside from the teeth, is the part where the bubble pops all over my beard. (Sigh)
Terry and the Pirates and Prince Valiant had the most beautiful, enchanting drawings.
And there was Mary Worth, early chick lit, comic strip style.
Thanks for the memories, Bob.
Mary Worth was a favorite of my co-workers in Santa Barbara in the ’80’s as the toonist was a local and the scenes were local.
Only the story lines were chic lit 😉
Sorry G.G., was I being a female chauvinist sow with the chick-lit comment?
Of course, the gentlemen enjoyed Mary Worth as much as I.
Pardon moi.
Not at all; I doubt there were many guys who cared about the story lines.
Judy, I still read Mary Worth to this day and she’s still the same old busybody she’s been for decades, sticking her nose into everybody’s business and doling out unasked for advice like the grandmother many of us wished we had. It’s good to see that some things haven’t changed.
Sad Sack and Beetle Bailey.
Beetle Bailey was always a staple in the good old Stars and Stripes, our military’s newspaper.
I heard Beetle later left the army, grew his hair and a beard and changed his name to Maynard G.Krebs.
Do you think there is any truth to that rumor?
I thought he changed it to Gilligan…by the way does anyone know Gillian’s first name?
Willy
Beetle never left the army, but the army is leaving him..
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/10/beetle-bailey-falls-victim-to-military-budget-cuts/
Indianapolis Star and then the LA Times. Them were the days.25
The Sunday funnies foreshadowed what would happen in underground comix in the sixties when Milton Caniff bailed on his highly popular “Terry and the Pirates” strip to create “Steve Canyon” – which he would OWN.
Then there was Ric O’Shay (with his friend, Hipshot Percussion)
I remember a sequence in the mid ’70’s that was looking to be coming to a bad end for Ric… poor guy was about to get shot by the bad guy and there was literally no way out. But there was… the next installment had the bad guy, about to pull the trigger, hit by lightening. Then Ric looked up to the sky and there were beams of light shining down on him.
Yes, God saved Ric.
I was in college and had a room near the dorm lounge which had an LA Times subscription. All day long there were occasional loud groans punctuating the silence in the dorm as someone would wander in and read the funnies…
Damn. Make that lightning.
Joe Palooka!
Mortimer Mouse! Bill the Cat! Opus the Penguin!
In the good not very old days, Berkeley Breathed had nearly half a page in the SacBee’s Sunday comics for Outland. Other nearly modern comics that were a sufficient reason for buying a newspaper include Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side.