I remember the Katzenjammer Kids from the comics in the ‘50s! And somewhere sometime I saw Smokey Stover, but never more than one or two examples. Little Nemo, though was from around 1900, and I don’t think it got rerun like modern comics.
Well, I am, if not Eb’s age, at least pushing it hard, and I only know those ones from The Smithsonian Treasury Of Newspaper Comics (one of my favorite books).
Leave us not forget Pogo, Thimble Theatre (Popeye), Moon Mullins, The Little King (I believe he was an ancestor of Lio. Neither speak.), Flash Gordon, Buck Rodgers, Mark Trail, and on and on and on ad infinitum.
Never heard of Smokey Stover before. The Katzenjammer Kids, in relatively recent reprints, can still be found at Comics Kingdom, if you’re willing to fight your way through all the undergrowth necessary to get to anything you’re actually looking for on that site. And the classic run of Little Nemo in Slumberland can be read right here at GoComics — something very well worth doing, or it would be if you were looking at a screen the size of an old broadsheet Sunday page.
“Krazy Kat” is perhaps better than any of these except perhaps “Thimble Theatre”. King Features has several classic strips but the subscription is rather expensive. WWII UAP Foo Fighters were named for Smokey’s catch phrase “Where there’s foo there’s fire”.
I think I’ve heard of Smokey Stover before. But it’s so oblique a reference I immediately looked up “Smokey Stoner”…okay, it is a thing, a rap musician.
pschearer Premium Member about 1 month ago
Ah, I remember “Smokey Stover”. Notary sojac! 1506 Nix Nix!
c001 about 1 month ago
Eventuallly you will, Cynthia.
k8zhd about 1 month ago
I remember the Katzenjammer Kids from the comics in the ‘50s! And somewhere sometime I saw Smokey Stover, but never more than one or two examples. Little Nemo, though was from around 1900, and I don’t think it got rerun like modern comics.
uniquename about 1 month ago
I wonder if “Little Nemo in Slumberland” is the inspiration for “Little Neuro” in “Cul de Sac”?
e.groves about 1 month ago
My facebook has started showing some of the early comics.
ChessPirate about 1 month ago
Major Hoople, Mutt and Jeff, Gasoline Alley, Henry…
Cozmik Cowboy about 1 month ago
Well, I am, if not Eb’s age, at least pushing it hard, and I only know those ones from The Smithsonian Treasury Of Newspaper Comics (one of my favorite books).
stamps about 1 month ago
I remember Bringing Up Father and ’Lil Abner.
sperry532 about 1 month ago
Leave us not forget Pogo, Thimble Theatre (Popeye), Moon Mullins, The Little King (I believe he was an ancestor of Lio. Neither speak.), Flash Gordon, Buck Rodgers, Mark Trail, and on and on and on ad infinitum.
Linda Schweiner Premium Member about 1 month ago
They have such a sweet relationship…
Jefano Premium Member about 1 month ago
Never heard of Smokey Stover before. The Katzenjammer Kids, in relatively recent reprints, can still be found at Comics Kingdom, if you’re willing to fight your way through all the undergrowth necessary to get to anything you’re actually looking for on that site. And the classic run of Little Nemo in Slumberland can be read right here at GoComics — something very well worth doing, or it would be if you were looking at a screen the size of an old broadsheet Sunday page.
Stephen Gilberg about 1 month ago
The last of “Little Nemo” came out in 1926. How would someone Grandpa’s age have seen it before the Internet?
Thomas R. Williams about 1 month ago
“Krazy Kat” is perhaps better than any of these except perhaps “Thimble Theatre”. King Features has several classic strips but the subscription is rather expensive. WWII UAP Foo Fighters were named for Smokey’s catch phrase “Where there’s foo there’s fire”.
syzygy47 about 1 month ago
I think I’ve heard of Smokey Stover before. But it’s so oblique a reference I immediately looked up “Smokey Stoner”…okay, it is a thing, a rap musician.