“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m Happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?”
The morning is beautiful with bright sun and a deep blue sky. It is sweatshirt warm. When I went to get the papers earlier, I noticed my forsythia has buds. Spring is getting closer and closer.
Yesterday was a busy day. Every item on my list got crossed off. I felt accomplished. Today I have only a few errands to do then it’s trivia tonight. We won three weeks in a row then the last two weeks we have been just awful. Last week we had only three team members and huge spaces in our memory banks. Tonight I know we’ll have at least four. Maybe that will help.
I watched the movie The Phantom this morning. It reminded me how much I loved reading the Sunday comics, especially the Phantom. I followed his exploits every week. It’s sad that so many comics from my childhood are now gone, relegated to memories. Lying on the rug reading the comics was a Sunday ritual for me. The comics were always in color so I knew about the Phantom and purple and how Nancy always wore that red skirt. I also remember Jiggs and Maggie who were usually on the front page. She had pretensions, and he wore spats and always smoked a cigar and frustrated the heck out of his wife. I read Dick Tracy but he wasn’t a favorite. I always felt sort of bad for Nancy as she had no parents, but she did have a really nice aunt and her friend Sluggo. Steve Canyon was a military pilot. All his pals had the strangest names, but I don’t remember any of them. Strange is all that stuck. It was just too long ago to keep the particulars safe in my memory. I read Annie and Dondi, both orphans. I remember Dondi had huge eyes.
I read the comics first every Sunday.
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April 7, 2011 at 12:55 pm
We were blessed with weekly comics. The Victor, The Hotspur and even Beano and Dandy. My best friend Tony got The Eagle who’s lead hero was Dan Dare. Tony has been Dan to my family for 40 years.
Today I have been actively collecting original cartoon art. Matt from The Daily Telegraph and some wonderful items from the amazing Bill Tidy – the Cloggies and the Fosdyke Saga
April 7, 2011 at 9:50 pm
My Dear Hedley,
All of these are unknown to me, and I’m going to Google image them so I can see your childhood comics.
I think collecting cartoon art is a great idea. I’d love to have a few I remember so well from my own childhood……hmmmmm!
April 8, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Collecting cartoons is not horribly expensive. I have an original by Frank Dickens, a couple of Matt’s, two Larrys, and a Gambols. Added are two custom pieces by Bill Tidy.
April 7, 2011 at 2:18 pm
I still read a lot of comics, but today they are mostly norwegian actually. But The Phantom had blue color over here. Purple didn´t work here for some reason 🙂
But back in the days Blondie was big here and Beetle Bailey of course. Zits is one of the new ones I like a lot.
Storm over here today and lots of people are without electricity, but here by my cottage the wind is hardly noticeable at all, the forest stops it quiet efficient 🙂
Have a great day now!
Christer.
April 7, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Christer,
I read the comics every day in both of my papers. Mostly they are in color but two days, at least, they are in black and white. That always throws me a bit.
Blondie is still around.
It was a sunny day but really chilly. Right now it is 37°.
April 8, 2011 at 2:36 am
Zits is hilarious.
s
April 7, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Prince Valiant was my fav until the old artist gave it over to someone else who wasn’t quite as good.
Steve Canyon put me in mind of another character that I thought was associated with him but turns out it was Steve Roper. Anyway, the character was Mike Nomad. The one thing I remember about him was that when he had to include another person in a sentence, he always said “I and SO and SO” instead of the other way around.
April 7, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Caryn,
I’d forgotten about Prince Valiant. I read him for a long while but somehow lost track. It was after his son was grown.
I don’t remember Steve Roper at all. For some reason your comment made me remember Mary Worth-one comic I never liked.
April 8, 2011 at 10:54 am
I kind of lump Steve Roper, Mary Worth, Mike Nomad and Steve Canyon into one. They weren’t high on my list of must reads. Neither was Brenda Starr.
April 7, 2011 at 7:49 pm
We’d always love to go into Chicago to visit my aunt and grandma. They’d have the prestigious Tribune comics which had none of our usual fare. There’d be Smilin’ Jack, Alley Ooop, The Phantom, Prince Valiant, Dondi, and Dennis the Menace. Our favorite, though, was The Teenie Weenies. There’d be a story, an illustration and a couple of cut-outs of the characters with fold on the dotted line stands. We’d always cut them out and paste them on shirt cardboard for our little newsprint village.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?keyword1=Donahey,%20William%20:%20Papers,%201914%20-%201970&search_field1=collection_name&search_type=advanced&sort_by=date&boolean_type1=and&boolean_type2=and
Like everything else I loved in my youth, I neglected to save them.
April 7, 2011 at 9:56 pm
John,
The Teenie Weenies are adorable-no wonder they were your favorites. I know I hadn’t ever seen them before I opened the link you gave me.
We didn’t have the fun of cutting out and making our own newsprint. That would have been fun.
I never saved anything either!
April 8, 2011 at 1:23 am
The teeny weenies are wonderful I did some googling and found out about the Brownies. I did read comics when I was small, but only in the summer months. I remember Little Lulu– I think that’s what it was called. I’ll have to look. Now, the print makes me ill. Oh Well. Some of the others sound familiar.
April 8, 2011 at 9:24 am
Lori,
I read the Sunday comics every week when I was a kid, and I still continue.
I wasn’t big on comic books. The money, to me, was better spent on books, but I’d read my friends’ comics. I liked Lulu too.
April 9, 2011 at 3:34 am
I found a great little Lulu You Tube set to swinging on a star. I only read comics in the summer as there was a book store near my parent’s store by the NJ beach.
I would also buy paperbacks there.. i really miss that place.
April 9, 2011 at 10:40 am
Lori,
I swear the world is on youtube. I did the library a lot when I was a kid and when I’d get my .50 cents allowance I’d run uptown and get the latest Trixie Belden.