I am looking to identify a comic strip that used to appear in the early 90s. It was rendered in B&W, and was space operatic. (Those were the days Voyager was exploring Neptune; this daily comic strip with all the Voyager news and pix made an indelible impression on my young mind…)
This is the only thing I remember now (was too young back then): “Melodie is dancing like a dream in the low gravity…” Melodie was a woman/robot? and this line refers to her dancing on the moon.
TIA and grateful to anyone who can identify this for me.
Rockit is funny, but not what I am after. The strip was pretty serious, rendered in grainy B&W (which added to its charm), and much older than Rockit (early 90s). Clues?
Dan Dare? I saw it as a daily strip for awhile, though I don’t recall when. The one strip I remember was when a group of aliens who looked like owls saw humans observing them and flew over to say “Shoo!”
A real stretch, perhaps, but back when you were enjoying this did you ever notice the small print in between the panels that would of listed the name of the syndicate that distributed it?
If the newspaper that was running it is still a going concern an email to their features editor may get results.
When in the 1990s? That’s a ten year span; if you can narrow it down that would help. In the meantime, here’s 10 links; you can see if you recognize a title there.
Where? What city? What newspaper? Why are you holding back information?
My suggestion is that you reach out to that newspaper and ask their archivist to look up what comics they ran back then or you search their online records yourself.
Searching for “comic strip NASA” and “comic strip astronauts” returned nothing like what you’re describing; adding “1990s” didn’t help either search.
Yes, this. More info. The newspaper may be archived and available online. I have subscriptions to the 2 largest archives and can check and see if I have the details.
