Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli

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  1. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, 16 days ago

    Hey, I figured that out yesterday. I’m still wondering why she suddenly decided the 110-year-old man she ditched in the theatre would wander to a graveyard in the middle of the night. I’m hoping we’ll end up back at the cartoon retirement home.

  2. oldbooger

    oldbooger said, 16 days ago

    Maybe this strip should be renamed “Gasoline Gertie”?!

  3. axe-grinder

    axe-grinderGenius_badge said, 16 days ago

    oldbooger said, Maybe this strip should be renamed “Gasoline Gertie”?!

    I agree, but I bet the syndicate wouldn’t allow it. I also wish they would go back to black and white.

  4. Macushlalondra

    MacushlalondraGenius_badge said, 16 days ago

    Yeah lots of us figured that out yesterday.

  5. Devonshade

    DevonshadeGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    This strip is pathetic, all its got going for it is that the artist can somewhat draw and likes to show off. A fourth-grader could have come up with a better story line than this present one. The curtains need to close on the gertie and byrdie show,..permanently!

  6. Struwwelpeter2

    Struwwelpeter2 said, 15 days ago

    I like this storyline.
    Possibly Walt believes that he is going for his annual Autumn walk with Skeezix…?

  7. whmIII

    whmIII said, 15 days ago

    I think Gasoline Alley is running on empty…

  8. kab2rb

    kab2rb said, 15 days ago

    I’m surprise the strip is using color, since color cost a lot. I thought it cost to much to use color, although I’m not sure B&W will work. I have enjoyed this series.

  9. ORteka

    ORteka said, 15 days ago

    Personally, I like the color in this strip. It shows even better detail in art than in the black/white strip.
    I like this storyline just like Struwwelpeter2 does. Walt is still in the storyline, being that Gertie is calling for him each day making it a mystery to where Walt is. I’m still betting that he is with Corky’s crew. They nabbed him when they saw the commotion of the seats that Gertie bought from the scalper.

  10. wkevinl

    wkevinl said, 15 days ago

    I agree that this plot line is a bit silly and improbable. Nonetheless, I have read this strip since I was a kid and will continue to do so. If you like this strip, you really owe it to yourself to get the collected Walt and Skeezix strips from the twenties. The art of that day is not as slick as it is now; you can see where the cartoonist must have used fashion ads as reference when drawing women, and he was still experimenting with different inking styles. By today’s standards, there are some politically incorrect portrayals of African-Amercians. But the strip was full of real people. Uncle Walt’s friends, Bill, Doc and Avery all remind you of someone you know. It was also innovative. Skeezix was the first comic strip character to grow up in real time. There was also a child custody dispute that led to a court battle and Skeezix being abducted. It was not an ordinary three panel gag strip.

  11. marvee

    marveeGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    I hope ORteka and others are right. But there have been so many unbelievable turns in this story, who knows what’s next? But isn’t that the point of a serial, to keep people wondering? We’re all still here posting comments.
    I remember Walt wandering in the cemetery even before Phyllis died. I thought then that was going to be his end - lost and suffering from exposure. I hope this isn’t the end.

  12. mizzou_rah

    mizzou_rah said, 15 days ago

    What’s next? Gracie Allen looking for her missing brother? Let’s get back to Gasoline Alley… huh?

  13. jumbobrain

    jumbobrainGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    kab- color only adds to the cost if you’re printing it. Online, all it costs is the time it takes someone to do the coloring. And a lot of newspapers have added more color, including to their comics. The bigger issue is that most artists draw things for either black and white or color (ie, if it’s in color you use less shading to indicate different hues). So a strip designed for BW and then colored can look lousy.

    Devonshade- the strip is not pathetic. I think it has its highs and lows but just in terms of craftsmanship is one of the best out there. You wanna see pathetic, go read Dick Tracy.

    Stru, Yes, we need that autumn walk!

  14. gdchief43

    gdchief43 said, 15 days ago

    I still think Slim is up to something stupid…maybe the strip will go there next.

  15. crunkbot

    crunkbot said, 15 days ago

    Is it interesting, or is it Memorex?

    Oh… neither.

  16. Joe Allen Doty

    Joe Allen Doty said, 15 days ago

    I am not prejudiced at all.

    But, when my late partner was terminally ill, we had an in-home hospice program with the Visiting Nurses Assocation in the Eastern San Fernando Valley.

    The first CNA which the VNA assigned to Ed was an African-American woman. I thought she could be trusted until I got the monthly phone bill. She lived south of the Hollywood Hills and she made long distance phone calls to inquire about non-nursing jobs and also to her hairdresser.

    I reported her to Ed’s R.N. and she got fired.

    After that, I never had any problems with the CNAs and they were all guys. One of them was African-American.

  17. Joe Allen Doty

    Joe Allen Doty said, 15 days ago

    Gertie should have checked with Walt’s relatives and friends before she went to the cemetery next to the church to see if Walt was there.

    While our calendar day of the week is now Thursday, she went to the cemetery on Halloween night which, of course, was Saturday’s installment of the strip.

  18. barticle35

    barticle35Genius_badge said, 15 days ago

    There is a rumor that when GM comes out with the new cars next year, Gasoline Alley will be renamed Hydrogen Fuel Avenue.

  19. Chikuku

    ChikukuGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    I like the color. It looks nice. Gertie has as much right 2b front and center as any other character.

  20. ocean17

    ocean17 said, 15 days ago

    Chikuku said,
    Gertie has as much right 2b front and center as any other character.
    ———————–
    No. Not when it takes her six panels and two days to figure out that the sound of her own voice is an echo. This is really a bit too much now, and I don’t care how good the art is. It’s not that good.

  21. Susan001

    Susan001 said, 15 days ago

    Whatever happens, Gertie’s career as a caregiver is over.

    She’d better take Byrd’s offer.

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  23. axe-grinder

    axe-grinderGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    ocean17 said, Chikuku said, Gertie has as much right 2b front and center as any other character.
    ———————–
    No. Not when it takes her six panels and two days to figure out that the sound of her own voice is an echo. This is really a bit too much now, and I don’t care how good the art is. It’s not that good.

    I’m not yet convinced it is an echo!

    channce said, I don’t know what J.A.D’s trip is.

    I think you’re right about not knowing… I wish that realization had meant something to you. By the way, I don’t know what your trip is either.

    crunkbot said, Is it interesting, or is it Memorex? Oh… neither.

    OK, well, see you again tomorrow anyway!

  24. Dypak

    DypakGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    I think he’s just a lonely old guy with a PC and an internet connection. Looking for someone to talk to, just like most of the rest of us.

    Makes me think of WildMustang, who used to post on goComics all the time. WildMustang would say the most outrageous non-sequiturs and everyone would jump all over the poor guy. Then they found out he was deaf and didnt really speak English, his native language is sign, which isnt the same. He was posting here because he liked comics but also because he was working on his English. Real nice kid, but would say the weirdest things.

    Anyway, I say we should all be more patient with each other and be a little kinder. Who knows who has had a bad day on the other side of that screen and needs just a little compassion. If we don’t watch out for each other no one else will.

  25. axe-grinder

    axe-grinderGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    Joe Allen Doty doesn’t appear to be looking for trouble. Seems like we all read his posts.

    Joe, I have no complaint against you. Hang in there!

  26. axe-grinder

    axe-grinderGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    Oh– and Dypak, everyone should have at least one teacher like you at an impressionable age.

  27. Greatdane

    Greatdane said, 15 days ago

    Susan001 is right. Gertie should be fired for dereliction of duty. She’s more interested in pursuing Byrd than taking care of poor Walt. Goodbye Gertie.

  28. Just plain Steve

    Just plain Steve said, 15 days ago

    Dypak and axe-grinder: Great posts, great hearts – thank you!

  29. Joe Allen Doty

    Joe Allen Doty said, 15 days ago

    I am not looking for trouble here.

    But, some people hate me so much that instead of posting a comment about the current comic strip at the top of the web page, they complain about me and even make childish remarks.

  30. Macushlalondra

    MacushlalondraGenius_badge said, 15 days ago

    Hey everyone leave Joe alone. If you’re not interested in his comments, skip over them. Seems pretty simple to me.

  31. axe-grinder

    axe-grinderGenius_badge said, 14 days ago

    Norman, you’ve been on both sides of that advice yourself.

  32. Just plain Steve

    Just plain Steve said, 14 days ago

    And the injunction “Don’t feed the trolls” makes the likes of Not Norman (And Crunkbot and Devonshade etc.) seem more welcome here than Joe Doty is, and that’s just unfair!