Today’s installment of “Hi and Lois” features a remembrance of its co-founder Mort Walker (with Dik Browne). The strip (currently done by Mort’s sons Brian and Greg) is a nice tribute to the cartooning great as we approach what would have been his 95th birthday on September 3rd. See the strip here.
above: the first four Alley Oop comic strips, December 5 – 8, 1932. The Alley Oop comic strip began on December 5, 1932 from the small Bonnet-Brown Syndicate. above: the last Bonnet-Brown strip, April 24, 1933 The strip ended abruptly on April 24, 1933 with the bankruptcy of Bonnet-Brown. The strip disappeared for […]
Non Sequitur leads us off with this concise history of Labor Day and how it almost worked and then pretty much fell apart, though he applies the principle that history is written by the victors, so it seems, on the surface, to have a happy ending. I blame George Westinghouse, the son of a […]