Upon occasion, I look at my Sunday paper, and whenever I glance at the comics, I am always amazed-virtually none of the strips from my childhood are around!
I would like you to tell me (to the best of your recollection) when was the last year of publication, of these now-vanished comics:
-GASOLINE ALLEY
-THE LITTLE KING
-NANCY
-MUTT AND JEFF
-FLASH GORDON
-THE PHANTOM
-MARY WORTH
-APARTMENT 3G
-HECKEL AND JECKEL
-RICHY RICH
-DICK TRACY
-LITTLE ORPHAN ANNY
-STEVE CANYON
Also, has any new cartoonist revived any of these old strips?
I still see Gasoline Alley in the paper, and Phantom online
Nancy & Mary Worth are still being published – both run in the Atlanta Journal/Constitution.
I bet that they most if not all still published, but the number of newspapers carrying them is slowly diminishing.
The Los Angeles (California, USA) Times has Mary Worth.
Here are some links:
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/comics.htm
http://comics.com/uminfo/sitemap.html
I still see Mary Worth in the Sunday paper. But I miss L’il Abner and Pogo. I also miss Ziggy, but he was never a big draw. There are others missing as well…Andy Capp, Snuffy and who could forget Galahad. sniff they just don’t draw them like they used to.
Snuffy Smith is still in the Sunday Washington Post (it’s Snuffy Smith and Barney Google, I think). Pogo would be nice - I’d gladly give up Zippy the Pinhead for Pogo!
I didn’t know Heckle and Jeckle were a comic strip, tho…
Whatever happened to “Henry”? You know, the silent kid with the giant, mutant head and no mouth? I don’t miss it. I was just wondering if it still sucked.
Also, where’s “Frank & Ernest”?
We have Frank & Ernest in the Sunday Sasbury Park Press Comics,
“Frank & Ernest” is still around, my local paper still carries it. “Andy Capp” on Sunday, but those might as well be reprints since it still uses the same few gags over and over again.
Wasn’t “Henry” a mainstay of that old newspaper Grit? Is it still around? The only “Henry” strip I remember was him trying to hide an ice cream cone from his friends so he wouldn’t have to share it. How was he supposed to eat the thing with no mouth?
Damn, but I miss “Pogo”, even the revival from the 80s. Makes me wonder even more just who are the zombies who read “Cathy”?
I’m still in mourning for Liberty Meadows – particularly since I can’t get even it online (not new ones, anyway).
I only knew Henry during the brief time that we lived in Hazelton, PA; their local paper ran the strip. There was a Sunday strip that for some reason I found amusing. Henry’s at the beach, industriously building a sand castle. A girl is paddling around in the water, and suddenly shrieks. Henry goes running to the rescue, then stops in two feet of water, scratching his head in confusion.
“Get this crab off my toe!” she pleads.
Obsure reference: Can’t remember the title, but there was some action/buddy movie that paired a tall actor with a very short one. (No, I’m not thinking of Twins.) Anyway, the director said in an interview, “I wanted a tall, skinny ‘Jeff’ and a short, stocky ‘Mutt’.”
The Little King: Was that Crockett Johnson? I seem to remember it having the same style as “Barnaby” and “Harold and the Purple Crayon”.
As recently as five years ago, I was still reading “Little Orphan Annie” and “The Phantom” in the Elizabethton, Tennessee newspaper.
I miss those strips.
Well, roll me in cornmeal and fry me for breakfast!
Still, the style’s not that far off.