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Post by mrbrklyn on Dec 14, 2020 16:30:22 GMT -5
Anyone every read the Walt and Skeezix reprints done by Drawn and Quarterly out of Montreal. Frank King was a master cartoonist. There haven't been much like him and these stories are quite compelling.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 22, 2020 12:45:59 GMT -5
I bought the first three shortly after they came out. Very good stuff. I should revisit them.
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Post by mrbrklyn on Jan 16, 2021 10:35:25 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 16, 2021 19:02:53 GMT -5
The strip was never carried in hometown paper, so I never really looked at it much. I'm more of an Alley Oop man, for a strip of the same era; then specific characters and/or artists.
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Post by mrbrklyn on Feb 6, 2021 5:55:57 GMT -5
well, it started in 1917
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 6, 2021 13:56:07 GMT -5
well, it started in 1917 Oh, I am familiar with it and it was the first popular strip that allowed the characters to age. However, the only time I got to see it was if someone had a Chicago Tribune, which ran it. Kind of hard to get into a strip when you don't have the continuity. By the time I was in high school and college, and saw the Tribune more, it was more of a gag strip than it had been. Pleasant; but, not quite up there with Bloom County or that new one, Calvin & Hobbes, when it came to laughs. I grew up near Decatur, IL and our paper carried a mix of gag, adventure strips and soap opera, with several Sunday-only strips. Daily, we got Alley Oop, Peanuts, Blondie, Steve Canyon, Steve Roper & Mike Nomad, Apartment 3G, Frank & Ernest, and Doonesbury (that I can recall). Sundays we also got Short Ribs, Tiger, Eek & Meek Our Boarding House and Captain Easy. When I visited my grandparents, in Bloomington, their paper had Prince Valiant, The Phantom, and a few others. You had to get the Chicago Tribune for Gasoline Alley, and not many did, downstate.
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Post by mrbrklyn on Feb 8, 2021 15:15:21 GMT -5
I've been reading the reprint done by Drawn and Quaterly. It is impressive, and historical.
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