Many strips appeared both daily and on Sunday as with Little Orphan Annie telling the same story, or The Phantom, telling one story in the daily and a different story on Sunday.Īs I recall, Tarzan and Buz Sawyer were on the front page. Tarzan appeared along with Terry and the Pirates and Buz Sawyer. Those funnies were so good, so appealing, so anticipated. The color in the Sunday funnies jumped out even more because they were in their own section on the front page of the bulky paper. GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE - SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST The pitter-patter in that busy, doors-always-open, three-story family home may have reached a rumble, but I didn’t hear a thing once I became absorbed. I’m not sure why, but I read those funnies while kneeling the paper spread on the linoleum floor in front of the warming Barstow stove, a pale globe above lighting the way, my head resting on my hands cupped under my chin, my fingers straddling my cheeks.
#See ya in the funny pages series
The Sunday paper had a dedicated section with longer series and with color printing in varied tones. The funnies, daily comic strips with black and white panels of cartoons with compelling captions in balloons, appeared Monday through Saturday on the last page of the evening paper. In the 1920s and through the WWII years, there was a common phrase, “I’ll see you in the funny papers,” which became a breezy, light-hearted way to say goodbye, see you later a recognition that lives might be as crazy as the characters in the comics, but at the same time could be funny, ironic, and interesting.
Yes, that’s what everyone once called the comic strips in the daily newspapers.
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