Wayback Whensday: Faux Pa and “The Greatest Comic Strip Quote”
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Don Trachte and the Fake Norman Rockwell
This story has been told before but Neha B at Scoop Upworthy brings it back: “Cartoonist painted fake versions to fool ex-wife during divorce. Cartoonist painted fake versions to fool ex-wife during divorce.”
For nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell’s famous painting “Breaking Home Ties,” sold for $15.4 million in 2006, hung on the wall of Donald Trachte Sr., an illustrator, cartoonist, and Rockwell’s former friend and neighbor from Arlington, Vermont. For years, Trachte Sr.’s sons and family members felt that even though the painting was stunning, something was wrong with it. It wasn’t until 2005, when Trachte Sr. passed away, that his sons discovered a stupefying secret.
[Don Jr.] suspects that his father was probably afraid that his paintings would be taken away by his divorcing wife or his family members, so he hid them altogether in secret. But the mystery of his true purpose remains unsolved.
Staying with The Saturday Evening Post and a Faux Pas
The Saturday Evening Post’s weekly cartoon revival today featured “Riotous Retirement” as the subject. Posting 1950s and 1960s gag cartoons by Ray Helle, Walter Goldstein, Scott Taber, Tom Flannery, Stanley Stamaty, Roy Fox and Dennis Renault.
It is that last cartoonist that draws our attention. If we say Little Orphan Annie was ten years old when she first appeared in 1924 then she would only be 50 years old forty years later in 1964. Too young for Social Security,
The Greatest Quote in Comic Strip History
There have been some quotes from comic strips that have gone down in history:
“I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”
“Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards and in high heels.”
“Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.”
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
“Nov Shmoz Ka Pop?”
All fine and memorable quotes but Nicolas Ayala at ScreenRant maintains that “One Peanuts Line Remains The Greatest Quote In Comic Strip History” and it is not the one you would think.
“Happiness is a warm puppy” is not the greatest quote in comic strip history.
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