It may still be around for all I know, but the last time I saw it was well over 30 years ago; I started seeing it probably in the 60’s. There’s absolutely no reason for me to be curious about it except nostalgia.
Situation: Italian-American family (no accents, I think). Father, mother, 2 kids. Everyone was chunky-to-fat, including the kids, and they all had dark curly hair. The biggest joke was Dad trying to find a way to get home with the pizza before it got cold, but he never did.
It was a normal multi-panel strip, and I believe it ran daily and Sunday, but it might have been Sunday only. There wasn’t any kind of story or plot, just everyday life stuff.
I thought that was it at first, the wife looks right, so does the basic style. Maybe I’m conflating two strips. I looked through a bunch of images and I didn’t see any children in this strip. And the father was always driving when he was bringing pizza home, in a little car that sort of putted and bounced.
It ran from 1965 to 2020. It was originally titled Moose, then it was retitled Moose Miller, and then it was retitled Moose & Molly. They had three children. Were they explicitly said to be Italian-American?:
Yes, I read through that too. Some of the things I am remembering are not in that strip: the children were in every strip, or just about, while in Moose & Molly the children don’t seem to be around much (just looking at Google images); the all-important little car that the father races home in when he has pizza; and the children having dark hair, the couple of times Moose’s kids showed up they were blond.
No, nothing said they were Italian-American, just a sort of convenient mental tag I had put on them in my memory. Like I said, I may be conflating two different strips. Or maybe some of the details changed from the 70’s, which is probably the last time I looked at it regularly. If the old strips are available online I’ll look through them to see if it looks more familiar.
