Comments on: Gasoline Alley turns 90 today

By: joel harris

joel harris — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:27:19 +0000

skeezix followed my whole life.i was born in 1921.
iwent to air corps.in 1942. i got married to niecy on june 25 1944, 3days before he married nina. my first child ,alan was born march23,1945,one week before chipper was born.
sincerely,joel harris dec.28,2011
i was just 90 today
i can tell you more if you would like.
you can write to me at my email address or
joel harris
7033 n kedzie av apt.915
chicago,il,60645
or phone at 773-465-2229

By: R.C. Harvey

R.C. Harvey — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:01:22 +0000

I rehearsed the history of the Alley and its various “mechanics” at my website’s “Hindsight” department. With samples of the work of all the cartoonists.

By: Ted Dawson

Ted Dawson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:24:28 +0000

Instead of letting Walt die, to me it makes more sense to re-start comics this old. Heck, Lynn is doing it with a strip only 20 years old. Why not begin again and retell the story from when Walt found Skeezix on his doorstep?

By: Tom Heintjes

Tom Heintjes — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:32:57 +0000

In a way, it’s too bad the syndicate has shattered the illusion of the passage of time by not allowing elderly characters to pass on. How old is Walt supposed to be now?

By: D.D.Degg

D.D.Degg — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:26:01 +0000

Scancarelli used today’s strip as Sunday’s drop panel:
http://www.gocomics.com/gasolinealley/2008/11/23/

The Gasoline Alley debut is available online as part of Frank King’s Sunday “The Rectangle” page of 90 years ago:
http://www.zonanegativa.com/2007b/1400.gif
(click on image to supersize).

By: Garey Mckee

Garey Mckee — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:31:10 +0000

” A true cartooning genius. Either that, or he just had a lot of fun.”

Two sides of the same coin.

By: Ted Dawson

Ted Dawson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:19:53 +0000

Frank King was the best! I recently read the Walt and Skeezix books and loved the heck out of them. And the Sundays he did in the twenties and thirties were incomparable. A true cartooning genius. Either that, or he just had a lot of fun.