Hi and Lois, 2 of 2

Continued from last week.

Hi and Lois, 1 of 2

“Are you the creator of Hi and Lois? Because you are making me laugh.” That was always one of my favorite lines of Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons. The joke would have also worked with more obscure characters, since most comic strip readers know the creators are Mort Walker and Dik Browne. I don't think this was by them, though. It looks to be inspired by John Stanley but I don't think it was him either. It was another issue of Dell Comics' try-out series, Four Color Comics, number 683 from sometime in 1956.

Comics, The War and After, part 2

Again more from the tome Comic Art in America, from 1959. But just the strips.

This was a library book (The tight binding explains some lousy scans) that I had to return before scanning everything, what's more, it was overdue and I had to pay $13 in fines, so I hope this is worth it to you. The other two chapters were a chapter called “Of Cabbages and Kings” of editorial cartoons and who won the Pulitzer Prize up to that point, and the other was called “The Lyrical Clowns”. It had examples of Krazy Kat, Pogo, and Peanuts; which are still in print elsewhere.

I won't be able to retype the book's captions, but I think I can tell you what these are from.

The first two are examples of Rex Morgan, M. D.

Judge Parker

The Heart of Juliet Jones

Dennis the Menace

It's Me, Dilly

Long Sam

On Stage?

Beetle Bailey

Hi and Lois

Bringing Up Father

Founding members of the National Cartoonist Society