Today, we show a scene from the first year of the Bumsteads’ married life in “BLONDIE,” specifically their honeymoon Thanksgiving in 1933.
Reader Email
To Tom Ferreira:
“RIBBONS AND HAYWIRE” was perhaps too simple, the gags were mainly of the precocious statements/ambitions genre that are usually the staple of kids in strips. I don’t know why it was, but the last episode of all was the Sunday of 21 April 1985, the day after the daily shown last week. It showed Walter, raking leaves, getting a stiff neck that makes him have to hold his head back. People gather around trying to see what he’s looking at. Well, guess that’s not happening in Florida, so it seems out of place. They should have had a wrap-up there too.
We will do some “FLOP FAMILY” stuff soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
Have a very happy, tasty Thanksgiving! See you at the Black Friday sales.
Yours,
The Archivist
Nice. I had no idea anyone was already doing the “Save the Turkey” gag back then. It was kind-of cute.
Now it has me curious. Each strip had a message above it that said “Ask your friends how they liked Soglow’s Ambassador in Sunday’s funnies.” What kind of strip was it? Do you have any of them we could see?
Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Otto Soglow was the creator of “The Little King”. Hearst wanted “The Little King”, but the strip was already on an exclusive contract with “The New Yorker”. Soglow created “The Ambassador” as a clone of TLK and sold that to Hearst. When the contract with “The New Yorker” expired, “The Little King” went to Hearst and “The Ambassador” disappeared.
Shenanigans of that sort have gone on literally from the very beginning of comics.