Comic strips of the 70s

As much as cartoons, we also loved our comic strips in the 70s!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, bussheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Todd Wheeler, bringing you our memories or lack thereof,
of growing up in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
We are not a history podcast. We just want you
guys to know that sometimes we get things wrong, and
if you listen to us long enough, you're going to
be screaming at your device trying to give us the
right answers.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Listen up as we recount growing up in the Midwest
and our unique experience. Go to seventies Buzz dot com
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Who's somebody move my thing? Don't be moving the thing. Yeah,
she's been told not to touch the table. She can
move the chairs and sweep a lot, but don't touch. Yeah. Oh,
we'll hang on. Let me get some business out of
the way here. No, what are we doing? Somebody's bus

(01:01):
move my gosh? So uh so? Yeah, the clean lady
was here yesterday and I'm missing a trash can.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh shoes, I don't see it over here.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh it's so in uh my utility room bathroom.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, having cleaning people is kind of weird. We we
are cleaning ladies coming and they're just like things. It's like,
how come they don't put things back where they found them?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, like like in this bathroom over here, it's I
got one of those toilet paper stands, you know, seeking
moving around every time she puts it on the other side. Well,
I'm right headed. I don't want my toilet.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, there's Steph far is due too, and I'm like
it in my shoes.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
So I had like half a dozen shoes, pairs of
shoes in my bedroom and she moves them to vacuum
and she puts back in, pointing of the toes, pointing
out and waving. I'm like whatever, I guess I'm just
grateful to have her.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Hey, guess what what everybody's listening to us.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
We're supposed to be doing something, but I can't remember
what what we do.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Somebody is bull podcast. I think I remember. Hey, everybody,
welcome to another episode of your seventies buzz Memories.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Hit us up.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
At five eight oh five or one three eight oh five,
we might be changing that. No, Todd doesn't want too, okay,
or hit us up at buzz at busadmedia dot com
and uh we had lots of contacts. I guess we
better jump in real quick because this couldn't take a while.
They've called. Most of Dave's comments were for Buzzhead Radio.

(02:43):
But he uh he let us know that his Medford
High school mascot was the Black Tornadoes. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah in Midford, Medford, Washington Organ Organ Organ. Yeah, pretty
much everything else is buzzed radio. So yep, tuned in
for that. Carl from Rochester Colley, Carl Carl talking about
some of the stuff he wished he had not get
rid of. For instance, he had a seventy seven money Carlough,

(03:13):
good choice.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I had a seventy six.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You had a seventy six, Yeah, I had to say,
and I still have my seventy eight. And he had
a seventy eight trans am which were super cool.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, I should have kept that.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Dude, she's smoking abandon his huffy banana bike and his
match box sets or matchbox cars. He ran into some financial.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
All kids run into financial issues and issues sold.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I wonder how much he sold them for, Probably not much.
Howmon how old he was when he sold them, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
But I had a bunch of matchbox cars too. I
sold allmine.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, where am I I have one? Where's it at?
It's right here.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
There's not match box, it's the or is it match
box in the other words? Hot wheels? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Match boxes?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
And this was one. Did I tell you how I
found this?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, but I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah. Christy bought a little detector one time, just you know, Oh,
that's right, and I was just out here in the
yard plane with it. I was living next door at
the time. I remember playing with this and I remember
around the dirt and.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
There it is. There it is back from the you
left it out there, and over time it got buried.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
I guess, like that's rained, and I don't know the
ground overtook it or reclaimed it. Step from San Antonio
called day Steve. He had a really cool seventy three
Dodge Van that he had to trade him for Ford
gran Eye.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
You don't want to be traded in for Ford Granada.
But he was about to put some bubble windows and
some carpet in that baby.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, budd He said that if he chowed up to
pick up a date in the van, the father wouldn't
let him go, and I don't blame him. I wouldn't either. Uh.
And then he suggested, do we do avant episode? Well,
guess what, Steve, we already have.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
You just haven't made it there. You haven't made it
to that episode yet, but it's coming up.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Keep going, so uh uh And he did mention the
thunder whatever and he forgot to hang up again.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, you went for almost four minutes. Unfortunately we didn't
catch you saying anything cool.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
So, yeah, you didn't like far or belch or we
didn't catch it if you did.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, And if you are wanting to if anybody or
you anybody out there, are wanting to mail us something,
you can mail us at PO Box five two, ENID, Oklahoma,
seven three seven oh two. So there you go. That's
an address for us. And uh, let's see.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Gritch And called Gritchen called.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
She had a long list of seventies items she hadn't got.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I couldn't keep up with her, but she did have
a stretcher arm strong and decapitated him. Sick coo uh.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
She she was. She had kept her Coogle Jars, Coogle Jars,
Big Wheels, Star Wars, tea Creepy Crawlers h g O
train said, cassette recorder with a pause button recording.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
How do you know? How do you remember?

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I wrote it all down? Vinnie Barberino mug uh, missus
b missus Beasley doll, banana seat bike that her grandma
took down and got it kind of turned the seat into.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
A dirt bike seat.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Did yeah, and then she was She said she was
like you that college just wasn't really a big deal.
He mentioned when you hit high school.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
And well, my mom was going to that point.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, she says her her dad probably her mom told
her dad wasn't going to pay for it anyway, So
if she didn't really bring it up, you got student loans,
student loans, dat, come on, dad, dad.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
She also had a doll that grew boobs, Yes, she did. Anyway,
she said something about.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
James Taylor. What was something about she threw all our
James Taylor records away or.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, she tried to sell them and nobody'd buy them.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
She didn't want to keep them or something. I don't
know anyway, all you know what you didn't do? He
didn't queue up, so you queue up? All I do Jeffrey,
Oh oh yeah yeah. So Jeffrey emailed says, hello, Jeffrey here,
I sent you to a new Emerald letter. So we

(07:31):
got a new letter coming. He's got a new idea
for an episode. It's called Dating during the seventies, so
we'll have to add that to our list. He says,
it was much different from how it is now. During
the nineties and two thousand's, when he was a wee lad,

(07:51):
you either asked a girl if he had the nerve,
or you gave her a love letter, which he did.
He had a huge crush on Singja Cinja, and he
asked her eight times, and eight times he got to know,
but at least he tried. He said his handwriting was

(08:12):
horrible back then. It's gotten much better, and he wishes
he had somebody to write love letters to now. He
asked Ai to make a picture of his perfect woman,
and he said, Ai came pretty close. He sent me
that picture. I don't have it in front of me.
I'll show you later.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
She clothed.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
She was clothed, yes, actually was. And then Gentry Barrett emailed,
we haven't. I don't know that we've heard from Gentry before.
He had a podcast idea. He said, do an Eddie
plus Valerie episode, tons of material on each of them together,

(08:55):
so that one we would have to reiterate that it
wouldn't be our van Halen episode, it would be our
Eddie and VAP. Sorry about that Valerie episode. So anyway,
thanks Gentry, we will get that added to the list.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Can I find this?

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I don't know, Okay, and then I'm just gonna keep going,
just keep searching over there. I think that's all of
our messages for seventies. Buzz don't forget to follow us
over to Buzzhead Radio. Some of you left us some
messages over there, just to let everybody know, because I
know Dave has asked about it here recently. I think

(09:38):
I have chapter one done on the Banana Seat Squad,
and I think what I'm gonna do is when I
fine tune it, I think I'm gonna post it because
once you read chapter one, you're gonna want to read
the rest of the book. But I'm not going to
post the rest of the book, only chapter one. Oh see, guys,

(10:01):
let me know if you wanna if you want me
to post chapter one or not, if you just want
to wait for the whole whole kitten kaboodle, the whole surprise.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
So, uh I it's disappeared?

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Is it long gone?

Speaker 2 (10:16):
I can't be. I would not have I'm just not
seeing it somewhere somehow, some way.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh crap, I don't know what you named it. Shall
I tell them what tonight's episode is about?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
What you want? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
So so yesterday, uh I Sinko to Mayo. May fifth
is also National Cartoonist Day, if you guys didn't know,
And so I got to thinking. You know, I was
very heavy into cartooning, uh for about ten years, about
ten years ago, and that was like half of my job.

(10:57):
I spent half my time cartooning in the other half
do in the end stuff. And during that time I
got in with basically every cartoonist back then. This was
like before social media and all that. We were all
building our own cartooning websites. And one of the guys
built this forum and again this was before Facebook groups

(11:18):
or any social media, and it was called the Weisenheimer
and he would go around to different cartoonists that had
websites and then we're doing cartooning professionally, and invites you
to this forum and then he would give you a
yearsername and password. And so I got to be a
part of the Weisenheimer for about ten years, and most

(11:42):
top professional cartoonists belonged to the National Cartoonist Society, and
so there was probably I don't know, seventy percent of
all of the cartoonists in the National Cartoonist Society. We're
in the Weisenheimer. So I got to be friends with
a lot of the cartoonists of the time, which was

(12:03):
the nineties, but a lot of them were either had
already done strips that we read in the newspaper, or
they were the sons of the guys that started a
lot of the strips. And so that got me thinking,
we have not done an episode on the funny papers
reading the back newspaper for all of the cartoons. Yeah,

(12:26):
so tonight is all about cartoon comic comic strips of
the seventies comic comic strips. Did you find it yet?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Not yet?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Do we need to pause?

Speaker 2 (12:39):
You know what? Let's do that because we can't go okay,
I found it.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Okay, this is for Gretchens. What second mom, second mount Barbara, Barbara,
who is turning ninety on this Wednesday. Happy birthday, Barbara.
This is for you.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Birthday, Happy bird.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Everybody buzzhead sing along it's bad day.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Happy by that. It's like, shut up, we say happy bird,

(13:33):
happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Congratulations ninety. That's saying something and many more.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Okay, back to worker.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Very cool. Okay, So you were going to tell me
something about the difference between cartoon strips and comic strips.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah. So I was, you know, searching around for stuff,
and I was using different you know, verbiage into search
boxes and somehow, uh if you somehow kind of populated
by itself, I said, cartoon strips of the seventies cartoon.
If you google that, you'll see naughty cartoon trips.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Oh really, yeah, too funny.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, I didn't know if there was such a thing.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I didn't either the seventies. I wonder where they.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Were at cartoon strips of the seventies cartoon and.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Anyway, interesting. So so so I figure we'll talk about
our favorite cartoon comic strips that we read in the eat. Now,
you know, each newspaper is different because they had different syndicates.
So I'm sure people all over the country read different
comic strips depending on what was in their local newspaper.

(14:45):
And a lot of ours were actually started. Some of
them were started in the forties, fifties, and sixties, a
lot of them were started in the seventies. And I'm
not mentioning there was one that was literally started on
the last day of the seventies. And I didn't put
it on mind, I.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Did because it started on December thirty first, nineteen seventy nine.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, I didn't add it because it wasn't close enough.
But we know that the best comic strips in the
newspaper came from the seventies.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
And why is that, mister Wheeling, because that was the
greatest decade, not.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
A man and cartooning wise, it.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a list of
the ones that actually some of the ones that started
in the seventies, A lot of them I haven't heard of,
but they did. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
So I think that the big one that pretty much
every newspaper in the world probably had peanuts was peanuts.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
And of course Charles did not want to call it peanuts.
Nineteen fifty is when he started drawing Little Little Folks.
I guess it was a comic. There was something out there.
I think it was a comic called Little Folks, and

(16:04):
so he named his little l i Apostrophe L. But
once it got picked up by the syndicates, they ran
into trouble with Little Folks, and Little Folks said, no,
we'll sue. It was a cartoon that was just one
that was already started, but they had the trademark on it,
and they when you go to trademark war, a judge

(16:26):
will say no, it's too much, And so they didn't
want to bother with it. So because the I think
the Howdy Duty Show, the kids that watched the Howdy
Duty Show in the studio where it's called the Peanut Gallery, really,
and so some guy at the syndicate said, oh, well,
they nicknamed him peanuts, and so he thought, well, we'll

(16:47):
just call these little characters that Charles is drawing peanuts,
and so they did. Before he really had a chance
to say yay or nay or I think he belly ached,
and they said well and before he knew it was
peanuts wow. And he never never liked it. Ever, he
didn't understand why because he said, if one of the

(17:07):
characters had been named Peanut, he could have understood. But
just randomly naming him Peanuts, he was not ever happy.
At several points. I think he tried to get them
to change it to Charlie Brown. But because when you're
a sin kit, there's a whole bunch of stuff that
goes into cartooning and comic strips and stuff. But because

(17:30):
it was already syndicated and there was licensing and things
already out there, it was too late to change.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
So they did that without his permission. Pretty much, he
must have signed something.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, I'm sure he probably did.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
And didn't realize what he was signing, or maybe I
don't know. Yeah, So it always wondered why they call
him Peanuts.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, it wasn't anything any of his doing, huh. It
was the most popular, influence and influential history comic in
the history of comics, with seventeen eight hundred nine twenty
seven strips published. In All That's Like, he drew almost
eighteen thousand strips, arguably the longest story ever told by

(18:10):
one human being. At the time of his death in
two thousand, it was running in twenty six hundred papers,
with a readership of rusts of roughly three hundred and
fifty five million people across seventy five countries and translated
into twenty one languages.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
He had to make a butler doing that.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
He was pretty well off, I would say, as far
as I know, he's probably got to be the wealthiest
cartoonist that was ever out there.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Excuse me.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
The last three Peanut Strips were run January first, two
thousand through January third, two thousand.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Is it not still going?

Speaker 1 (18:50):
It's only going now in reruns. It's so popular that
it's one of the only comic strips that like just
goes and reruns. We'll get into some of the other
ones you weren't. You guys are going to be fascinated
by how so many of the other ones continue to
go today. It's so weird how there's so many of

(19:11):
them that are the same thing. So anyway, so it's
still being published in a lot of newspapers, but again
it's just reruns.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Nice see, And you probably can't tell because like one
generation will quit reading the cart and the comics, a
whole new generation to come on things. Brandon, Yeah, I
like podcasts.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
There you go, and we we did not get a
copy of our local paper, and I have not read
a copy of our local paper in decades.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
So I don't even know what cartoons look like. I
know they kept getting smaller and smaller in the daily paper,
and then I don't even know if they still do
the big color section on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
I don't know. I assumed you guys let us know.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Do you guys still read the phone? Does your newspaper
stilk carry like the whole back page of funnies or
is it got other stuff on the page too? And
then does your newspaper print like ours? The end of
newspaper used to have like a I think it's at
least a four page on spread of and it was
just comics in color and big and big. Yeah yeah,

(20:22):
So I don't know if they still do that or not. So,
so what's on your list over there, mister John?

Speaker 2 (20:29):
You know, I was trying to sit down and think
which my favorite one was. And a while ago, we were,
just a few minutes ago, we were talking about Far
Side and debating whether or not it started, and it
was in the seventies, and technically it was, but I
won't call it my favorite. I think my favorite probably.

(20:56):
I'm sitting there looking at them. There's a bunch of them.
I really liked Probably b C.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
BC was good.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
I like BC. It was actually older than I thought.
It came out in February fifty eight. My cartoonist named
Johnny Hart. Did you know Johnny Hart? Was he? That?

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Johnny was not in the group. Unfortunately, I wish he
had been.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
He died at his drawing board in two thousand and two.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
That's kind of crazy doing what he loved.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, so you'll probably die either on the trail or
on your computer.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah hopefully.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, well or Disney World.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Hey, that'd be cool.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
So BC was actually the name of the main character,
an orange haired, humble, naive slob andternal Patsy. He occasionally
made nighttime rounds as alter ego, the Midnight Skulker. His
best buddy was p And do you remember John the

(22:03):
turtle and the dukie Bird.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
No, I don't, but the turtle would be like going
across the oh, yes, and dukie bird would be on
his back. Yes, yes, I forgot, I forgot about them.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah. They were some of the big some of the
big players or characters in that comic strume.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah, there was a snake, the ant Eater, modern mod
who was an aunt and Jake.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
And I've got a set of BC glasses that could
be from the seventies. Oh yeah, in my studio they
eat each glasses are different like I've got I've got
the ant eater on one of the glasses and his
tongue like goes I think around the bottom of the glass.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Really, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, so it's it's a pretty cool set.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah. Now, BC ha'd be one of my favorites. But watch,
we'll think of another. It will come up, but I
didn't think of it and say, no, I I got
is that?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well, here's one that was one of my favorites.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Hermann Herman.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Herman was a single panel most of the time, but
then on Sunday in later years he would do a strip.
But that was Jim Hunger, who lives down in the
what are those islands down there below Florida? This the Bahama, Yeah, Bahamas.

(23:23):
He lives in the Bahamas. And so Jim Hunger was
in the Weisenheimer, and every now and then while we
were in the Weisenheimer, somebody would like, if somebody knew
would join, we would start this deal where to kind
of introduce everybody to everybody. Somebody would say, hey, would
you guys send me an index card with your signature

(23:47):
and a drawing, and so several times we did that.
So I've got like index cards from Jim Munger and
Chris Brown who did Hagar and like a little so
I've got a sketch of one of the Herman characters
with Jim Hunger. Funny and so we would we would
send them to each other. So it was pretty cool.
But so yeah, so Jim, I just loved his humor.

(24:11):
I've got a bunch of books, collections of just Herman cartoons.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
I forgot about Herman too.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Unger's brother Bob was a major influence in the Herman comic.
Herman was syndicated from seventy five to ninety two, then
he retired. It ran for eighteen years and six hundred
newspapers in twenty five countries.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
You know, it didn't make the top twenty list of
on Ranker.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
And the thing about Herman is it might not have
because it was a single panel and sometimes they might
not have included the single panels, just the strips. Now
it was in the Sunday paper.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Though, Yeah, yeah, I remember it seemed to come a
little bit later, didn't he.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, well, it didn't start till seventy five, so we
probably Yeah, it is probably.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Late seventies, about the time I quit.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah. So the thing about here, real quick, I'll just
lay it on you, Getting a comic strip into news,
getting it syndicated is like ten bazillion times harder than
like getting on Survivor. I'm getting a so number one,
getting your comic strip into the newspaper is almost impossible.

(25:27):
But getting a news strip is like almost impossible because
all of the strips that are already in the newspaper,
they've gotten so popular that they've got a big following
and there's merchandise, and they've got a lot of money invested,
and they know people like them. And I don't know
how many I've got on my list, but it's it's
got to be.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
At least half.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
The cartoonists had sons. And in almost half of these
when the artists cartoonists died, their sons took over the
comic strip. And a lot of people don't no, because
they have the same last name, and you just don't
pay attention to who the artist was. So so not
only can. You almost never get a comic strip syndicated

(26:11):
because there's rarely an opening, because when the cartoonist dies,
the strip doesn't go away. The sun just keeps drawing it.
So there's never, almost never an empty space in the
comic strip on the funny Paper. And then again you've
got like Snoopy where they just keep running reruns. So
I don't even know if they even have new strips anymore.

(26:33):
I would think everybody's given up by now to even
try to get a new strip.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
In the well in the top twenty on ranker. The
newest one I see was two thousand and two, something
called Pearls before Swine.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Oh yeah, Pearls before Swine. He was a lawyer, quit
his attorney job and started drawing cartoons. Yeah, that's been
a WHI it's twenty three years. Twenty three years. Yeah,
I bet that's one of the newest cartoons out there.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, it ranked number four on rankers.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I think he was in I think he might have
been in the Weisenheimer for a little while.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Huh huh.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, I remember when he first came out.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
So whose place did he take?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Did he take?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I don't know, I mean, how do you how do
you do that?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
It's basically basically, syndicates are like record labels, so they
all carry, you know, a certain number of artists. Will
a syndicate will carry a certain number of cartoonists, and
then they'll have like, let's say, three thousand newspapers, and they'll,
you know, they'll put a certain cartoon in a certain

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number of papers. Well, the cartoons that seem to be
doing well, they'll they'll just keep going more and more
into more and more papers, and eventually the ones that
don't do as well will drop out.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, how do you tell, I mean, especially back in
the seventies and eighties, how do you tell if a cartoon,
a particular cartoon's doing well? I mean, what kind of
feedback do you get? You can't, you don't have analytics.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Usually if you Usually, how I think that they would
usually happen is they would pull a cartoon strip to
replace it with a different one, and they would get
so much reader feedback that it's like almost every time
they did it, they had to put the original cartoon
back in.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
So people don't when it comes to funnies, people don't
like change. And I can remember I remember times in
the seventies when a I remember, like when the Muppets
cartoon came in, I don't remember who it replaced, but
I'm like, I don't want to read the Muppet cartoon.
I see the Muppets on television. I don't want to
be reading the cartoon.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
But and what's the difference. I mean, I know what
the difference between is a single panel and a multiple panel,
But why would one artist rather do single.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Panels humor so like family circus a single panel and
side And so they're like a gag cartoon like you
would put in a magazine, like in Playboy or I
can't think of the other big one that cartoons go
in the New Yorker. So it's just one line and

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it's and there's no continuity story. There's no story, yeah,
Whereas with a strip, it's kind of like you've got
to you've got to line up the gag and then
there's like a punchline at the end, and so it's
it's a little harder, you know, to do, because.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Well, some some punchlines need to be built exactly, yeah,
and some are just.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah. And if you'll notice the thing about gag car
what I call gag cartoons, but single panel cartoons is
you could not ever look at the picture almost and
the gag is what you know, the writing is what
makes it funny. Or you could replace like Herman. You
could replace Herman with fifty of his different characters and

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use the same gagline and it would still be funny.
Whereas with a cartoon strip you're kind of relying on
Charlie Brown and Snoopy. You're you're so Herman didn't really
have a person. There was always different people. There was
like a shop owner and a customer or a doctor,
and you know, there wasn't even though it was called Herman,

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there wasn't like a guy named Herman. Whereas a strip
it's all about Charlie Brown and Snoopy and and the
far side. There was not a you know, there was scientists,
and so that's kind of the difference.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
YEA.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Garfield was big now the cooling. The funny thing about
Garfield is Jim Davis used to spend time down to
Marco Island and got to know Jim and Betty and
so he so they got a picture of a beach
and Jim Davis, no, it was the guy that did

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Ziggy that was the wrong one. But anyway, he signed
it and gave it to them, and then when they
passed away, I got it. So I've got a ton
of signed cartoon stuff from all the years. But anyway,
Garfield Jim Davis started in I kind of remember when
it started nineteen seventy six. It was originally started as

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a comic strip called John Jay O Winn who owned
the owner, but then they changed it to Garfield in
nineteen seventy seven. When it became nationally syndicated in seventy eight,
it chronicled the life of Garfield, the Cat, Odie the Dog,
and John Arbuckle.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
I got a nod you out of beer.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Oh there you go? Yeah, yeah, you know. Garfield was
like now, Peanuts had a lot of merchandise, but Garfield,
like somehow like took it to the next level. I
mean Garfield, Gosh, he had a whole bunch of stuff.
Was in roughly twenty five hundred newspapers and journals. Comic

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held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most
widely syndicated comic strip.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
In twenty thirteen, it was number five on the Rankers
Top twenty.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah. I kind of and I haven't again, I haven't
read a lot of these cartoon or comic strips in
a long time. But you know, the famous thing for
Garfield was always being lazy and wanting.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
To eat Lozoz. I love those movies.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
And then John always wanted to date. I don't know
if it was one girl in particular, it seems like
he was always scheming on some girl. Yeah, and I
and so so cartooning wise, because I was a cartoonist
for like ten years. I like Garfield style because it
mimics Don Martin in Mad Magazine kind of that's kind

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of real clean, skinny, upright.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Characters I don't know, want their heads a little oversized
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, and they had googly eyes. Yeah, John had kind of
googly eyes.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, they were oversized features, I should say.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, yeah, so over there.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Another one I really liked was Hagar the Horror that
was next on my list as well. And what's the
two little dots called over the A on Hagar.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
It's because it was from Speeding, not Spheeden, but normally yeah,
it's it's it's Hagar. No, it's yeah, it's Hagar.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
I always wondered Hagar, Hagar, Hagar the Horrible.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
It's Hagar the Horrible and it was originally drawn by
Dick Brown and then his son, Chris Brown took over
and Chris was the one that was in the Wisen
with us, and then he since passed away and somebody
knew is drawing Hagar now really? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, because it's still going.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, it's still cruising alone.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah. So Hagar had his wife Helga, hel a son Hamlet,
and a daughter Honey, well h o and I.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
I think it was Honey Honey.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah. She was a sixteen year old Viking like daughter
with a boyfriend Lut remember Lut.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
I don't really remember.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Lint and the sun Hamlet. He always wanted to be
a dentist. He wants.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Started in February seventy three, set in the Middle Ages
and a unnamed coastal village somewhere in Norway. Hagar the
Terrible was the nickname given to the late Dick Brown
by his sons. That's where the name of the strip
came from, except they changed it to Horrible rather than Terrible.

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Much of the humor centers around Hagar's interactions with his
long ship crew, especially Lucky.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
They would go on raids and stuff, So yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
It was living on Ranker. Oh really.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
And then I mentioned earlier the Family Circuses, which was
originally the Family Circle. If you notice, it's always in
a circle, It's always in a circle. So they originally
wanted it to be the Family Circle, but of course
there was a magazine called Family Circle at the time,
and so again with copyright and trademark laws, they had
to change it. So they changed it, and I guess

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another name that it had was Family Go Round, and
then they finally decided to name it the Family Circus.
Drawn by Bill Keene.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
It was nineteen sixty two that started. Yeah, and it
was a panel, a single panel.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
It was a single panel except on Sunday it would
it would go into strip form on Sundays as well.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
That gam I printed, but I can't read what it says.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
It was the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world,
appearing in fifteen hundred newspapers.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
And character Bill was a dad, Dolly Billy Mommy who
was the fell and Jeffrey a fourth child had a
fourth child.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Later, Yeah, so they added they added a child throughout
the years, but none of the children got any older. Right,
The children never aged during the strip. One of my
favorite I guess you would call it, I call it
an episode. But remember the dashed dashed line ones where

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one of the kids would be like going from school
to home and they would have a dot yeah his
path and a dotted line jumping over a fence and
went through a swimming pool.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
I forgot about that.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
That was always one of my favorite, even though it
wasn't really just dotted line, and it was just always
kind of cool to and.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
There wouldn't be any dialogue, right, it was.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Just a or it might just say Billy on his
way home or so that wasn't ever anything.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah, it was very very random, very sporadic path.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah. The family Circus took place in Scottsdale, Arizona. They
often visit a popular ice cream parlor named Sugar Bowl,
which is actually a real restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
I'll be doing Yeah, it's still it's still running too,
still running. Who is Silly Philly?

Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'm not sure who's Stilly.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Is preceded by preceded by Silly Philly?

Speaker 1 (37:42):
I don't know. Well, how about the born Loser? Remember
the born law? Oh, yes, born Loser by Art Sansum
in nineteen sixty five, and then his son took it
over Chip, who started assisting in eighty nine and is
the current artist. Brutus Perry Thorny thorn Apple is the

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born loser. He simply cannot get a break, whether it
involves his job, family, or just playing everyday life. He's
rather old fashioned and the modern time seemed to run
over him. His birthday is November twenty ninth, nineteen fifty one.
I don't know why, but that's when his birthday was
so anyway, Yeah, the born Loser. I remember that being

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in the end paper.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yep. And it's still running.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, as I say, pretty much.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Sixteen nineteen sixty five. All of these are still running
fifteen nine years. Wow.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, they just don't go away. That's why you can't
get in any new ones.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Well, and it didn't make the top twenty on drinkers.
Oh really, which is odd and rinkers isn't that? Isn't that?
It's a point people people voted one, Yeah, which I
think is probably you know, the fairest thing to do. Yeah,
had the lockhorns?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Oh yeah, that was a single panel, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
I believe it was sometimes or like that was a Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
I had the guy that wore the little cap and
his wife was always in haircurves.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Lockhorns presents the ups and downs of committed relationship through
the lens of the married couple Loretta and Leroy Lockhorn.
The too exchange witty barbs and sarcastic quips, all while
demonstrating their deep love and affection for each other through
thick and thin couples counseling in LeRoy's occasional trips to
the bar. Leroy and Loretta exemplify the endearing nature of

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the relationship bound together till death do us part in quotations.
It was originally called The Lockhorns of Levittown. U Yen
is a single panel with Sunday featured a strip nineteen
sixty eight. They started doing the strips in seventy two. Yeah,

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I like that one too.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, how about Blondie.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I love Blondie. I used to love the TV show too,
the old old black and white Yeap.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
The comic strip was the reason that the show came along.
It was a King feature syndicate published since in newspapers
since nineteen thirty.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah, it was about Blondie and her sandwich loving husband,
dag would That's why a lot of sandwich shops will
have a Dagwood.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Piled just piled high of stuff.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Chick Young wrote and drew Blondie until his death in
nineteen seventy three, when creative control was passed over to
guests who sogn His son, Dan Young, remained popular, appearing
in more than two thousand newspapers and forty seven countries,
translated thirty five languages.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
It's launched date ninety four years ago.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Crazy. Do you know what Blondie's maiden name was before
she became a.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Yes, I did. I saw, I did come across blah
blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Uh, I got it here somewhere Blondie. Boopa doop, boopa doop.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
I did not see that, Yeah, but I did. I
did briefly go over their marriage. That was a whole.
And that's another thing they'd have like a it wouldn't
just a lot of the especially the strips, It wouldn't
just be like there would be like an ongoing issue.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Yeah yeah, And that was again that's the difference between
a strip and a panel is sometimes the strips would
continue a storyline, and Peanuts did that every now and
then they would kind of continue a theme for a
couple of weeks or a couple of months.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah. Yeah, And that way you kind of get involved.
It's almost like watching in the sitcom, sitcom or Survivor
or anything really yep.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Uh. Anyway, then then she became a Bumpstead Dagwood Bumstead.
Uh Dagwood was always running into mister Beasley, the male
man as he ran out the door, always being late
for working.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Uh Son, Alexander Cookie Bumstead, Daisy the dog, mister dog. Yeah, Uh,
mister Julius Caesar Dithers. It must have been his boss,
I remember, I believe it was. Oh, I didn't realize
he worked for a construction company. I didn't know that.

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I couldn't have if you had asked, I couldn't told you.
There's a bunch of people in that cartoon.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Yeah, it was. Uh, it was a well drawn you know,
if you if you know, if you look at cartoons,
some artists get away with almost nothing in the background.
You know, it's just mainly the care.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
And uh, just blank in the back.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Blondie had a lot. There was a lot of stuff.
There was usually a house and a fence and trees,
and he drew a lot of stuff. There was a
lot of work that went into Blondie.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah, and I love, like I said, I love that
old TV show Black and White.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Yeah she was hot, Yeah she was cute.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Yeah, Blondie came in and Where to Go, Where to Go?
Where to Go? I know it was on her number
seventeen in the top twenty. Yeah, I don't remember. I
barely vaguely remember the Wizard of ID. Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Oh yeah, I remember the Wizard of It again. One
of those that takes place back in the old old days.
It kind of had the gesture the guy that wore
like the gester hat with the thingies. Oh yeah, hanging
off of it.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Oh oh yeah, like a Gester's hat is what you
call it. Yeah, it came in number fifteen.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Yeah. I don't really have any information.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
I don't either.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
It was just kind of one of those back in
the back. It's it's funny how many cartoons were like
from way back when.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, like something what was the value one Prince Valiant
or something?

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, that was one. I don't have
a lot of information, but Dick Tracy I hated Dick Tracy.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Wasn't it big to Tracy fan?

Speaker 1 (44:33):
It was. It was one of those that had too
much continuation. So if you weren't always reading Dick Tracy,
you didn't know what happened the week before I lost yoh,
yeah and so, and you had to follow it. So
I just I don't know. That was literally one of
those cartoons that I never even tried to read it.
It was in the paper, but I would just skip it.
I would just be like, nope, I'm not even going

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to go there.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah, I must have been geared for, like old, little
older older fans.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Yeah. Beatle Bailey, Yes, Now, Beatle Bailey was basically Sad Sack.
Did you read Sad Sack and the comic books, Oh yeah,
basically they too. I think Beatle Bailey was kind of
a takeoff on Sad Sack. American comic strip were Traded,
created by Mort Walker, and it was about the US

(45:23):
United States Army post.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
I didn't I realize Beatle was originally a college student. Yeah,
he just did he ever do anything? A sergeant was
always yelling at.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Him, got in trouble. That was about his kind of
like a Gomer Pile sad sack guy.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah. Yeah, and I had his comic those comic books too.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Yeah. Walker died in twenty eighteen at the age of
ninety four, and guests who took over after he passed
away Fred Sandford, a bunch of other guys and his son,
Greg Walker. Yeah, so they continued the strip afterwards. The
place where they were stationed actually had a name. It

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was Camp Swampy, inspired by Camp Crowder, where Walker had
been stationed.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
YEA Beetle Bailey came in thirteen.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
And his full name was Private Carl James Beatle Bailey.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
I never knew that, never knew that. What about?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
What about?

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Did you ever read Marmaduke?

Speaker 1 (46:30):
That's the next on my list. Marmaduke was kind of
a takeoff on Scooby Doo without the ghost hunting crew
around him.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Yeah, yet Dog was always like, you know, jumping on
someone's back.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Here's the thing about Marmaduke. But that would be the
whole cartoon him just jumping on somebody's back. I guess
there's I didn't realize there's a bunch of things out there,
like joke websites and groups that just make fun of Marmaduke.
Cartoons because it's almost like there's no humor. It's just

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it's just a big dog that does dog things. There's
like really not any humor to the strip, and so
people a lot of people make fun of it.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Drawn by Brad Anderson, revolving around the Winslow family and
their great Dane Marmaduke from nineteen fifty four to twenty fifteen.
His so guess what his son Paul Anderson took over
to this day. Marmaduke is a messy but lovable great Dane,

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apparently measuring if you buy the cartoon standards, compared to
the humans in the cartoons, he measures forty inches. He's
like an oversized great Dane.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Oh that's on all four so yeah yeah, if he's
on his back feet, he's taller than most people. Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
But again, there's kind of like an underground make fun
of Marba Duke thing that people just make fun of.
I think they come up with like alternative gags and
things just because it's so non funny sometimes, and I
think I kind of remember it being not ever being
really funny. Yeah, it was just cute a dog doing things.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Yeah, yeah, And it did not make the ranker. I
can see that. I can see that now this ranker list,
I just I cut off a twenty. It went to
like eighty.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
But those were all those weren't just seventies. Those were
all cartoons.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Yes, yeah, but I do point out of the top
twenty one four plus except twelve of the top twenty
were either from the seventies or we read them in
the seventies.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Que is Ziggy on there?

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Ziggy?

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Yeah he is not.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
I mean, he's not the top twenty.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
And you know, you almost. I mean he was in
the comic strips, although he didn't start out in the
comic strips. He was a nameless concept. Originally, Tom Wilson
would just draw him, and he was a greeting card artist,
and so he drew Ziggy on greeting cards, and he

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started pitching the cartoon to syndicates, and so eventually American
Greetings picked up the character. So that's why you see
a lot of Ziggy greeting cards from American Greetings because
they originally picked up Ziggy. And then one of the
Kathleen Andrews, one of the at Universal Press syndicate, saw

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Ziggy and they were in need of a new comic,
so she asked if they could use Ziggy. They struck
a deal. Ziggy was born in strip form, began in
fifteen newspapers in nineteen seventy one. It eventually grew to
six hundred publications and a day strip premiered in seventy three.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
You mentioned American greeting cards. I saw a thing the
other day where they're talking about Hallmark cards. Uh huh
are all done overseas? Printed overseas?

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Oh, they're not printed in Kansas City anymore. I've been
to the Kansas City. So downtown Kansas City there is
where Hallmark is, and they used to have the plant
there and you could go in and they would give
you a tour and you could see the offices where
they drew and the printing plant.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
And but that's just what I saw. But American standard
is from I think Canton, Ohio or something like that.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Yeah, but I haven't. We haven't been to the Hallmark
thing and Eon.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
So yeah, they may have. They might be farming this
stuff out there.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Well, so few people buy greeting cards anymore.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
It's sure.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
It's kind of a dying and now it's going to
get zapped with the old tariff, So let's see how
that goes. Yeah, and so again I do have a
sign to Ziggy. I got a cool and I think
it's actually a piece of art that Tom Wilson drew
and pain It's a painting of a sunrise on the

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beach and he drew Ziggy on the beach and then
he signed it. So I've got to signed Tom Wilson Ziggy.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Very cool.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
That's part of my cartooning.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Quacks on goodness?

Speaker 1 (51:23):
What else you got over there?

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Dennis A Menace, No, Dennis A.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Minis very popular.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
He is he is twenty on No Rancor. Dennis Minis
is daily Sendy get a news comic. And I believe
it's still running too.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
And it was so popular it was turned into a
oh kind of stuff TV show back in the fifties,
forties or fifties.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Or well, it came out in fifty one, so probably
the fifties.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
I remember the little kid that played at Dennis and Menace. Yeah,
way back then.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Dennis Mitchell, Dennis.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Mitchell and then who was the who was the act
that was? Then they came out with the movies. Was
it like Walter Mathau or who was his neighbor in
the movies.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Oh, mister Wilson, Yeah, mister Wilson, mister Wilson.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
I can't remember who played him in the movies. Seemed
like it was somebody famous that we knew.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
I don't remember George Wilson Senior. Yeah, that's a whole
cast of people.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
How about the comic strip Shoe.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Ah, I totally forgot about Shoe. Now what was that about?

Speaker 1 (52:32):
Well, it was kind of a political. It was a
motley crew of newspaper men, all of whom were birds,
and he kind of touched on like a lot of
political subjects, things that news guys would be talking about.
But it was birds. All the characters were birds. Drawn
by Jeff McNally. Started in seventy seven and he passed

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away in two thousand and that may be one strip
that didn't keep going. I'm not sure about that.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Oh I'm sitting here, okay, Yeah, and I remember, No,
I remember him.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
It was a pretty It was a nicely drawn cartoon.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Yeah, there was a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, a lot of tree limbs and leaves and stuff.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
It is still running.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Oh, well, there you go.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Launched in nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Interesting. How about Archie Archie, Archie been out there for
a while, Archie bought Girt, don't.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Know, no, what was Archie's.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Archie and Joehead and rolla.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Yes, Yes, Yes, written by Craig Boldman began the nineteen
forty six. I was looking for Archie's real name, but
I don't think I have it on here, like his
last name Archie.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Yeah, Archie rather Archie Archie. I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I didn't have any Yeah, No, Archie was cool.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
And then I've just got a list of some other
ones without really much detail that I kind of remember.
Remember Kathy, Yes, I remember when Kathy, I actually kind of,
I mean I remember when Kathy came out because it
was drawn by a female cartoonist, which there was not
a lot of female cartoonists back in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
It came out in seventy six, seventy six.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Kathy, and basically she touched on a lot of female topics.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Kathy Guy's white goose white.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Yeah, and I don't I hate I was not a
fan of her style of cartooning.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yeah, yeah, I get that.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Not a fan of that one. Remember Frank and Ernest.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Oh, I do remember, I forgot what they.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Kind of the dumpy looking dudes. Now, I think it
was a It was an odd cartoon because it was
in a strip form, but it was a single panel.
It was usually a single panel strip that was like
really long, but it only had one panel and it
was the two what the guy had like a big
trench coat and.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Oh yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
They would just.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
They'd sit on the park bench. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
real dumpy guy.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Yeah yeah, they were real, real dumpy looking.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Always got that goofy grant on their face. Yeah. I
totally forgot about them.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Uh, Funky Winkerbean. Never heard of that Funky winker Bean.
It came out in the seventies. It was kind of
a kind of just an everyday dude.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Huh for better or worse? Yeah, it was, Uh it
made It was fourteen on the Rink car. Oh really Yeah,
came out in seventy nine.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Yeah it was. It was a pretty good one. I
mean it wasn't super like laugh out funny, laugh out
loud funny.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
But I don't remember it.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
I remember it not one of my favorites to read.
But and then we didn't. I can't remember what your
Doonesbury came out, but it was not in our newspaper.
Doonesbury was not in It was kind of because he
was so political and leaning towards one side that he

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didn't make a lot of newspapers.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Yeah, and it was. It was not in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Soon it came out, was it after?

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Yeah, it was, I want to say eighty five very trueau.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Okay, so I think.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
I think, I think, I think. No, I'm sorry. Launched
nineteen seventy, Okay, I was thinking of something else.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
So Broomhilda, broom Hilda. I actually got Broomhilda right here.
Started April nineteenth, nineteen seventy.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
It was kind of fun, I like. So Broomhilda was
one of the cartoons in the ended paper that actually
went away. Oh yeah, I remember. I remember. It could
have been replaced by the Muppets or I don't know,
but I remember. I remember it used to be in
the end paper, and then it wasn't in the end paper.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
We didn't have cartoons and stuff too. They did cartoons
on TV cartoons.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Broom Hilda did, did it?

Speaker 2 (57:24):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it did. S already wanted cartoons,
I remember, but you know, my memory.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Is uh bloom County Baby Blues some of the other ones.
So anyway, how are we doing on time over there?

Speaker 2 (57:43):
It is time?

Speaker 1 (57:46):
It is time.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Okay, if you get anything you want to run through
real quick, do it now.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
That was really it. I know we're missing some uh
we couldn't. And again, like we said, the syndicates would
send different comics to different parts of the country. So
you guys, let us know what cartoon was, like the
most popular popular in your area, and usually it was
the cartoon that was at the top, you know, uh,

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and what was your favorite? Let us know what your
favorite comic strips cartoons were. And if you're still reading
the comic strips in the newspaper. Does anybody read the newspaper.
I haven't read a newspaper, and I don't know when
the ship.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Still gets one.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
It's been forever.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Some of my older folks still get them.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Yeah. I want to find one, though, just to see
what the comics look like these days, because I know,
I know that they were trying to add and so
they really, I mean, they were like tiny last time
I saw them. They were like really tiny.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
I think the last time I saw it, which wasn't
very long ago. Maybe it was the last year I was.
I was eating somewhere like McDonald's or yeah, or somewhere
Broms maybe, and there was a copy there.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
It seems like they were adding like games like word
search and things, which made less. Anything you add onto
the comic page just makes the comics. Either you have
to knock one off or you have to make them smaller.
And I just remember the last time I saw them,
they were getting really small. So anyway, let us know
if you guys still read them, what's your favorites were

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