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Right Back In the Alley with Skeezix

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

I’ve been hooked on the Gasoline Alley comic strip since I was a kid, probably because it was one of the cartoons that my dad used to read to me out of the Daily News when I sat on his lap. Today, sadly, I read it mostly out of habitÃ%C ... Continue reading »

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  • Dan Schneider

    2 years ago

    Other great strips are Krzy Kat & Little Nemo In Slumberland.
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  • Tom Watson

    2 years ago

    I'm a big Gasoline Alley fan too - I've always enjoyed the large ensemble cast. I agree, it's gone off the tracks. Uncle Walt is about 110 and Skeezix should be around 90, but they soldier on. The latest storyline about Walt's memory loss and dotage is painful. And the old gang from around the garage has long disappeared, which was a big part of the attaction. Still, it remains a classic.
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  • Lance Mannion

    2 years ago

    Walt and Skeezix are both still alive???
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  • Tom Watson

    2 years ago

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  • Howard Chaykin

    2 years ago

    I was equally shocked that the strip still exists. For me, those experimental sunday pages from the late 20s/early 30s, some of which show up in the Williams Smithsonian book, remain as stunning as Cliff Sterrett's POLLY AND HER PALS sundays and Herbert Paus' illustrations--visual ideas so completely ahead of their time that they seem to have come from an alien source.
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  • Dan Schneider

    2 years ago

    Holy Cow, it's still going? I wonder how many readers it gets?
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  • crystal

    1 year ago

    was there a charecter named zeke in this cartoon??and if there is which one??my dad named our new dog zeke and i had no idea how he came up with it.please reply!!
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  • California adoption

    1 month ago

    nice, they're very inspiring.. imagine adopting a child, and loving the it like a true child.. Those kind of books are for children
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