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39-427: Gasoline Alley may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Gasoline Alley (comic strip) is a comic strip by Frank King, first published in 1918 Gasoline Alley (radio series) , a 1931–49 radio series based on the eponymous comic strip Gasoline Alley (1951 film) , an American comedy film Corky of Gasoline Alley , its sequel released

78-653: A baby or even a little boy for long. He grew up to manhood, the first occasion where real time was shown continually elapsing in a major comic strip over generations. By the time the United States entered World War II , Skeezix was an adult, courting Nina Clock and enlisting in the armed forces in June 1942. He later married Nina and had children. In the late 1960s, he faced a typical midlife crisis . Walt Wallet himself married Phyllis Blossom on June 24, 1926, and had other children, who grew up and had kids of their own. During

117-527: A gas station and garage, the Wallet and Bobble Garage, with his partner, Wilmer Bobble. In New York, this series aired on WOR from July 16, 1948, to January 7, 1949. Gasoline Alley was adapted into two feature films, Gasoline Alley (1951) and Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951). The films starred Jimmy Lydon as Skeezix, known at that time for Life with Father (1947) and his earlier character of Henry Aldrich . Daily comic strip A daily strip

156-588: A hardback collection titled Gasoline Alley, Volume 1 , collecting several years of the daily strip by Frank King and Dick Moores. Several radio adaptations were made. Uncle Walt and Skeezix in 1931 starred Bill Idelson as Skeezix with Jean Gillespie as Nina Clock. Jimmy McCallion was Skeezix in the series that ran on NBC from February 17 to April 11, 1941, continuing on the Blue Network from April 28 to May 9 of that same year. The 15-minute series aired weekdays at 5:30 pm. Along with Nina ( Janice Gilbert ),

195-539: A motherless calf), grew up, fought in World War II, and is now a retired grandfather. Walt married after all, and had more children, who had children of their own. More characters entered the storyline on the periphery and some grew to occupy center stage. Skeezix called his adoptive father Uncle Walt. Unlike most comic strip children (like the Katzenjammer Kids or Little Orphan Annie), he did not remain

234-442: A series of reprint books, Walt and Skeezix , was published by Drawn & Quarterly , edited by Chris Ware and included contributions by Jeet Heer . The first volume covers 1921–22, beginning several weeks before baby Skeezix appears. These reprint only the daily strips, with Sundays slated to appear in another series: In 2007, Sunday Press Books published Sundays with Walt and Skeezix , which collects early Sunday strips in

273-424: A sports strip on the sports page. Initially, a newspaper page included only a single daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page. By the 1920s, many newspapers gathered the strips together on a single page, along with news articles, columns, puzzles and/or other illustrated features. In many newspapers, the width of the strips made possible an arrangement of the strips into two stacks displayed from

312-421: Is a newspaper comic strip format, appearing on weekdays, Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip , which typically only appears on Sundays. They typically are smaller, 3–4 grids compared to the full page Sunday strip and are black and white. Bud Fisher 's Mutt and Jeff is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip, launched November 15, 1907 (under its initial title, A. Mutt ) on

351-661: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gasoline Alley (comic strip) The strip debuted on November 24, 1918; as of 2024 , it is the longest-running current strip in the United States, and the second-longest running strip of all time in the United States, after The Katzenjammer Kids (which ran for 109 years, 1897–2006). Gasoline Alley has received critical accolades for its influential innovations. In addition to new color and page design concepts, King introduced real-time continuity to comic strips by depicting his characters aging over generations. The strip originated on

390-468: Is made between continuity strips which have continuous storylines and gag-a-days in which the same characters appear in different humorous situations with no ongoing plot. In some cases, a gag-a-day strip might depict different characters each day. Writer-artist Jim Scancarelli attempts an overlap by inserting daily gags into his Gasoline Alley continuity storylines. Newspapers can display strips on separate pages randomly or thematically, such as placing

429-569: The Chicago Tribune ' s black-and-white Sunday page , The Rectangle , where staff artists contributed one-shot panels, continuing plots or themes. One corner of The Rectangle introduced King's Gasoline Alley , where characters Walt, Doc, Avery, and Bill held weekly conversations about automobiles. This panel slowly gained recognition, and the daily comic strip began August 24, 1919, in the New York Daily News . Some of

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468-405: The active cartoon character Rex Morgan, M.D. , appears. These characters break the strip's rule about aging with the calendar. Daily: Sunday: King was succeeded by his former assistants, with Bill Perry taking responsibility for Sunday strips in 1951 and Dick Moores, first hired in 1956, becoming sole writer and artist for the daily strip in 1959. When Perry retired in 1975, Moores took over

507-559: The 1930s, the original art for a daily strip could be drawn as large as 25 inches wide by six inches high. As strips have become smaller, the number of panels has been reduced. In some cases today, the daily strip and Sunday strip dimensions are almost the same. For instance, a daily strip in The Arizona Republic measures 4 3/4" wide by 1 1/2" deep, while the three-tiered Hägar the Horrible Sunday strip in

546-691: The 1958 Society's Reuben Award , and Moores received it in 1974. Scancarelli received the Society's Story Comic Strip Award in 1988. The strip received an NCS plaque for the year's best story strip in 1981, 1982 and 1983. Examples of the full page Sunday strip were printed in The Comic Strip Century (1995, reissued in 2004 as 100 Years of Comic Strips ), edited by Bill Blackbeard , Dale Crain and James Vance. Moores' dailies and Sundays have appeared in Comics Revue monthly, as have

585-553: The 1970s and 1980s, under Dick Moores ' authorship, the characters stopped aging. When Jim Scancarelli took over, natural aging was restored. The Sunday strip was launched October 24, 1920. The 1930s Sunday pages did not always employ traditional gags, but often offered a gentle view of nature, imaginary daydreaming with expressive art, or naturalistic views of small-town life. Reviewing Peter Maresca and Chris Ware 's Sundays with Walt and Skeezix (Sunday Press Books, 2007), comics critic Steve Duin quoted writer Jeet Heer : Unlike

624-586: The April 26, 2004, strip; Walt was left a widower after nearly eight decades of marriage. Walt Wallet appeared as a guest at Blondie and Dagwood 's anniversary party, and on Gasoline Alley' s 90th anniversary, Blondie , Beetle Bailey , Dennis the Menace , and Snuffy Smith each acknowledged the Gasoline Alley anniversary in their dialogue. Snuffy Smith presented a character crossover with Walt in

663-595: The Pirates and Little Orphan Annie , decided the strip should have something to appeal to women, as well, and suggested King add a baby. Only problem was the main character, Walt Wallet, was a confirmed bachelor. On February 14, 1921, Walt found the necessary baby abandoned on his doorstep. That was the day Gasoline Alley entered history as the first comic strip in which the characters aged normally. ( Hairbreadth Harry had grown up in his strip, but stopped aging in his early 20s.) The baby, named Skeezix ( cowboy slang for

702-608: The Sunday strips, as well, combining the daily and Sunday stories into one continuity starting September 28, 1975. Moores died in 1986, and since then, Gasoline Alley has been written and drawn by Scancarelli, former assistant to Moores. Scancarelli returned to done-in-one separate situations for the Sunday strip. The strip and King were recognized with the National Cartoonists Society 's Humor Strip Award in 1957, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1985. King received

741-407: The advantage of making space for additional strips but often resulted in a crowded, unattractive page design. More often during the 1930s and 1940s, the title was typeset (in all upper case letters) and positioned to the right in the white space area above that strip, with the byline on the right. An episode subtitle (in upper and lower case) was centred between the title and the byline. In later years,

780-691: The adventures of Winnie Winkle , Moon Mullins and Dondi , and waited each fall to see how Lucy would manage to trick Charlie Brown into trying to kick that football. (After I left for college, my father would clip out that strip each year and send it to me just to make sure I didn't miss it.)" Collections of such clipped daily strips can now be found in various archives, including Steve Cottle's online I Love Comix Archive. Comics historian Bill Blackbeard had tens of thousands of daily strips clipped and organized chronologically. Blackbeard's San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, consisting of 2.5 million clippings, tearsheets and comic sections, spanning

819-542: The character Walt Wallet. Tribune editor Joseph Patterson wanted to attract women to the strip by introducing a baby, but Walt was not married. That obstacle was avoided when Walt found a baby on his doorstep, as described by comics historian Don Markstein : After a couple of years, the Tribune' s editor, Captain Joseph Patterson, whose influence would later have profound effects on such strips as Terry and

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858-492: The characters included Skeezix's boss Wumple (Cliff Soubier) and Ling Wee (Junius Matthews), a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. Charles Schenck directed the scripts by Kane Campbell. The syndicated series of 1948–49 featured a cast of Bill Lipton, Mason Adams , and Robert Dryden. Sponsored by Autolite , the program used opening theme music by the Polka Dots, a harmonica group. The 15-minute episodes focused on Skeezix running

897-463: The course of the run: That Phoney Nickel (Dec 14, 1930 – Sept 17, 1933), Puny Puns (Feb 5 – Sept 17, 1933), Corky (Aug 18, 1935 – 1945), and Little Brother Hugo aka Wilmer's Little Brother Hugo (January 30, 1944 – 1973). The strip is still published in newspapers in the 21st century. Walt Wallet is now well over a century old (124, as of February 2024 ), while Skeezix has become a centenarian . Walt's wife Phyllis, age an estimated 105, died in

936-542: The daily strips, which traced narratives that went on for many months, the Sunday pages almost always worked as discrete units," Heer writes. "Whereas the dailies allowed events to unfold, Sunday was the day to savor experiences and ruminate on life. It is in his Sunday pages that we find King showing his visual storytelling skills at their most developed: with sequences beautifully testifying to his love of nature, his feeling for artistic form, and his deeply felt response to life. The Sunday pages included several toppers over

975-399: The doorway of Snuffy's house where he was being welcomed and invited in by Snuffy. In May 2013 at the cartoon retirement home, Walt is at a dinner when Maggie's (of Bringing Up Father ) pearl brooch is stolen; Fearless Fosdick is his usual incompetent self trying to catch the thief; cameos include such "retired" comics characters as Lil' Abner ; Smokey Stover and Pogo and Albert . Even

1014-402: The early characters were based on people Frank King knew. Skeezix was based on his son Robert Drew King. Walt was based on "jolly" overweight bachelor and Western Union traffic engineer Walter W. Drew, who had "a wisp of unruly hair". Bill and Amy were based on locomotive engineer William D. Gannon and his wife Gertrude. Doc was based on Dr. Hughie Johnson. The early years were dominated by

1053-452: The entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches in height. In the 1920s, an eight-column newspaper usually ran a daily strip over six columns. Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip. Larger sizes have returned with today's digital distribution by DailyINK and other services. During

1092-471: The first Scancarelli strips. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative US postage stamps . In 2003, Spec Productions began a series of softcover collections, Frank King's Gasoline Alley Nostalgia Journal , reprinting the strip from the first Rectangle panel (November 24, 1918). To date, four volumes have appeared: In 2005, the first of

1131-652: The garage area at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway See also [ edit ] The Talk of Gasoline Alley Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gasoline Alley . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gasoline_Alley&oldid=1178908939 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1170-435: The leading single gag panels for decades, Grin and Bear It , was created in 1932 by George Lichty and initially syndicated by United Feature Syndicate . Throughout the 20th century, daily newspaper strips were usually presented in black and white and Sunday strips in colour, but a few newspapers have published daily strips in colour, and some newspapers, such as Grit , have published Sunday strips in black and white. On

1209-452: The original size and color. In 2014, Dark Horse Comics published Gasoline Alley: The Complete Sundays Volume 1 1920–1922 and Gasoline Alley: The Complete Sundays Volume 2 1923–1925 in hardback. Moores' work on the strip was published in three different collections, all currently out of print, as well as being serialized in Comics Revue magazine: On October 9, 2012, IDW Publishing's imprint The Library of American Comics published

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1248-725: The same paper is 5" wide by 3 3/8" deep. The popularity and accessibility of strips meant they were often clipped and saved or posted on bulletin boards or refrigerators. Authors John Updike and Ray Bradbury have written about their childhood collections of clipped strips. Many readers related to J. R. Williams ' homespun humour and clipped his long-run daily panel, Out Our Way . As noted by Coulton Waugh in his 1947 book, The Comics , anecdotal evidence indicated that more of Williams' daily cartoons were clipped and saved than any other newspaper comic strip. Strips had an ancillary form of distribution when they were clipped and mailed, as noted by The Baltimore Sun ' s Linda White: "I followed

1287-819: The same year Gasoline Alley (album) , a 1970 album by Rod Stewart, or the title track Gasoline Alley (2022 film) , an American action thriller film Places [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Gasoline Alley, Alberta , a business park in Red Deer County, Alberta, Canada Gasoline Alley, Alberta (hamlet) , a hamlet in Red Deer County, Alberta, Canada Gasoline Alley Museum , an antique car and memorabilia museum located within Heritage Park Historical Village in Calgary, Alberta United States [ edit ] Gasoline Alley (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) ,

1326-506: The sports pages of the San Francisco Chronicle . The featured character had previously appeared in sports cartoons by Fisher but was unnamed. Fisher had approached his editor, John P. Young , about doing a regular strip as early as 1905 but was turned down. According to Fisher, Young told him, "It would take up too much room, and readers are used to reading down the page, and not horizontally." Other cartoonists followed

1365-437: The subtitles vanished as continuity strips gave way to humour strips. In a nod toward the classic daily strips of yesteryear, the cartoonist Bill Griffith continues the tradition by always centring a hand-lettered episode subtitle above each of his Zippy strips. In rare cases, some newspapers assembled pages of stacked strips minus titles, leaving more than a few confused readers. Early daily strips were large, often running

1404-404: The top to the bottom of the page. Some newspapers would alter a horizontal strip to fit their page layout by placing the first two panels of a strip atop panels three and four. This then had a shape roughly similar to a gag panel and could be grouped with the gag panels. The title of a strip was sometimes typeset and pasted into the first panel, enabling the strips to be closely stacked. This had

1443-695: The trend set by Fisher, as noted by comic strip historian R. C. Harvey : In the early 1900s, William Randolph Hearst 's weekday morning and afternoon papers around the country featured scattered black-and-white comic strips, and on January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation's first full daily comics page in his Evening Journal . The two conventional formats for daily newspaper comics are strips and single gag panels . The strips are usually displayed horizontally, wider than they are tall. Strips are usually, but not always, broken up into several smaller panels with continuity from panel to panel. Single panels are square, circular or taller than they are wide. One of

1482-481: The web, daily newspaper strips are usually in colour, and conversely, some Webcomics , such as Joyce and Walky , has been created in black and white. Traditionally, balloons and captions were hand-lettered with all upper case letters. However, there are exceptions such as a few strips which have typeset dialogue such as Barnaby . Upper and lower case lettering are used in Gasoline Alley . A distinction

1521-671: The years 1894 to 1996, has provided source material for books and articles by Blackbeard and other researchers. During the 1990s, this collection was acquired by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum , providing the Ohio State museum with the world's most extensive collection of daily newspaper comic strip tear sheets and clippings. In 1998, six 18-wheelers transported the Blackbeard collection from California to Ohio. A Fortune poll in 1937 ranked

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