Gasoline Alley is a long-running classic comic strip, created by Frank King, that was first published on November 24, 1918.
Widely recognized as a pioneering comic strip, Gasoline Alley was especially notable for being perhaps the first comic to depict its characters aging as the years progressed.
The strip’s origins lie in the Chicago Tribune, which ran a black-and-white Sunday page, The Rectangle, where staff artists contributed one-shot panels, continuing plots or themes. One corner of The Rectangle introduced Frank King’s Gasoline Alley, where characters Walt, Doc, Avery and Bill held weekly conversations about automobiles.
This panel slowly gained recognition, and the daily strip began August 24, 1919 in the New York Daily News.
The Sunday page was launched in 1921. The 1930s Sunday pages did not always employ traditional gags but instead sometimes presented a gentle view of nature or imaginary daydreaming with expressive art. Reviewing Peter Maresca and Chris Ware’s Sundays with Walt and Skeezix.
The strip is still published in newspapers today. Skeezix has become an octogenarian. Walt’s wife Phyllis, aged an estimated 105, died in the April 26, 2004 strip, leaving Walt a widower after nearly eight decades of marriage. Walt Wallet appeared as a guest in Blondie and Dagwood’s anniversary party. and on November 24, 2008, Gasoline Alley celebrated its 90th anniversary. On that date, Blondie, Dennis the Menace and Snuffy Smith each acknowledged the Gasoline Alley anniversary in the dialogue. Snuffy Smith presented a character cross-over with Walt in the doorway of Snuffy’s house where he is being welcomed and invited in by Snuffy.
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