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Gasoline Alley

Frank King's Skeezix Out West (Reilly & Lee Co. , 1928)
Author(s) Frank King (1918-1959)
Dick Moores (1956-1986)
Jim Scancarelli (1986-present)
Website http://www.comicspage.com/gasoline/gasolinealley.html
Current status / schedule Active
Launch date November 24, 1918
Syndicate(s) Tribune Media Services

Gasoline Alley is a long-running classic comic strip, created by Frank King, that was first published on November 24, 1918. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Frank King ( April 9, 1883 &ndash June 24, 1969) was an American Cartoonist most famous for the comic strip Gasoline Dick Moores is a comic strip creator whose best known work was for the comic strip Gasoline Alley. Jim Scancarelli is a cartoonist who has been writing and drawing the comic strip Gasoline Alley since 1986 A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Print syndication is a form of syndication in which News articles columns, or Comic strips are made available to Newspapers, Magazines Tribune Media Services ("TMS" is a syndication company owned by the Tribune Company. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Frank King ( April 9, 1883 &ndash June 24, 1969) was an American Cartoonist most famous for the comic strip Gasoline Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

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.

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Early years

The strip's origins lie in the Chicago Tribune, which ran a Sunday page, The Rectangle, where staff artists contributed one-shot panels, continuing plots or themes. The Chicago Tribune is a major daily Newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and owned by the Tribune Company One corner of The Rectangle was home to Frank King's Gasoline Alley, where characters Walt, Doc, Avery and Bill held weekly conversations about automobiles. Frank King may refer to Frank King (cartoonist (1883 &ndash 1969 an American cartoonist Frank King (cricketer (1926 &ndash1990 This black-and-white panel slowly gained recognition and eventually the daily Tribune picked up the feature, either on August 25, 1918 or January 1919, according to varied accounts. Black-and-white is a number of Monochrome forms in Visual arts. Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

It became a daily strip, and the Sunday version moved from The Rectangle to a full-color page of its own. The 1930s Sunday pages did not employ traditional gags but instead presented a gentle view of nature or imaginary daydreaming with expressive art.

The early years were dominated by the character Walt Wallet. The Tribune's editor, Captain Joseph Patterson, wanted to attract women to the strip so it was decided to introduce a baby into it. Joseph Medill Patterson ( January 6, 1879 &ndash May 26, 1946) was an American Journalist and Publisher, grandson of publisher The only problem was that Walt was a confirmed bachelor. This was overcome when, on February 14, 1921, he found an abandoned baby on his doorstep. Events 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar

The baby was called Skeezix (slang for motherless calf) who called his adopted father Uncle Walt. Unlike most strips (like the Katzenjammer Kids or Little Orphan Annie) he did not remain a baby or even a little boy for long. Little Orphan Annie is a Full page (later half page or tab) American Comic strip, created by Harold Gray (1894-1968 In fact, as the years went by, he grew up to manhood, the first occasion where real time continually elapsed in a major comic strip over generations. By the time the United States entered World War II, Skeezix was a fully-grown adult, courting girls and serving in the armed forces. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including He later married and had children. In the late 1960s he faced a typical mid-life crisis.

Walt Wallet himself eventually married Phyllis Blossom and had other children, who grew up and had kids of their own.

During the 70's and 80's, under Moores' authorship, the characters did briefly stop aging—when Scancarelli took over, the natural aging was restored. [1]

Recent years

The strip is still published in newspapers today. Skeezix has become an octogenarian. Ageing or aging (American English is the accumulation of changes in an organism 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. Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Walt Wallet appeared as a guest in Blondie and Dagwood's anniversary party. Blondie is a popular Comic strip created by Murat Bernard "Chic" Young and syndicated by King Features Syndicate.

History of artists and awards

King was succeeded by his former assistants, with Bill Perry taking responsibility for Sunday strips in 1951 and Dick Moores, first hired in 1956, becoming sole writer and artist for the daily strip in 1959. Dick Moores is a comic strip creator whose best known work was for the comic strip Gasoline Alley. When Perry retired in 1975, Moores took responsibility for Sunday strips as well, combining the daily and Sunday stories into one continuity starting 28 September 1975. Moores died in 1986, and since then Gasoline Alley has been written and drawn by Jim Scancarelli, formerly assistant to Moores. Jim Scancarelli is a cartoonist who has been writing and drawing the comic strip Gasoline Alley since 1986

The strip and King have been recognized with the National Cartoonist Society [NCS] Humor Strip Award in 1957, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The National Cartoonists Society is the world's largest organization of professional Cartoonists It presents the Reuben Awards. King received the 1958 Society's Reuben Award, and Moores after him received it in 1974. The National Cartoonists Society is the world's largest organization of professional Cartoonists It presents the Reuben Awards. Scancarelli received the Society's Story Comic Strip Award in 1988. In addition, the strip received an NCS plaque for the year's best story strip in 1981, '82, and '83.

Reprint collections

Examples of the full page Sunday strip were printed in The Comic Strip Century (1995, reissued in 2004 as 100 Years of Comic Strips), edited by Bill Blackbeard, Dale Crain and James Vance. Comic strip formats vary widely from publication to publication so that the same Comic strip may appear in half a dozen different formats with different numbers of panels Bill Blackbeard is a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from American

Dick Moores' dailies and Sundays have appeared in Comics Revue monthly, as well as the first strips by Jim Scancarelli. Comics Revue is a monthly Small press Comic book published by Manuscript Press.

In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative US postage stamps. Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative Postage stamps was issued by the US Postal Service in 1995 to honor the centennial of the newspaper Comic A postage stamp is an adhesive paper evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services

In 2003, Spec Productions began a series of soft-covered collections titled Frank King's Gasoline Alley Nostalgia Journal, reprinting the strip from the very first "Rectangle" panel from November 24, 1918. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common To date, four volumes have appeared:

In 2005, the first of a series of reprint books, Walt and Skeezix, began, published by Drawn and Quarterly and edited by Chris Ware. Drawn and Quarterly is a Canadian Comic book publishing company headed by publisher Chris Oliveros, and based in Montreal, Quebec Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American Comic book artist and Cartoonist, best-known The first volume covers 1921–22, beginning when baby Skeezix appears:

In 2007, Sunday Press Books published a collection of Sundays entitled Sundays with Walt and Skeezix, which collects several early Sundays in the original size and color.

Radio

There were several radio adaptations. Gasoline Alley during the 1930s starred Bill Idelson as Skeezix Wallet with Jean Gillespie as his girlfriend Nina Clock. Bill Idelson ( August 21, 1919 &ndash December 31, 2007) was an actor and scriptwriter best known for his recurring role on The Dick Jimmy McCallon was Skeezix in the series that ran on NBC from February 17 to April 11, 1941, continuing on the Blue Network from April 28 to May 9 of that same year. Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt. 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Blue Network was the on-air name of an American radio production and distribution service from 1942 to 1945 which traced its formal origins back to 1927 Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of The 15-minute series aired weekdays at 5:30pm. Along with Nina (Janice Gilbert), the characters included Skeezix's boss Wumple (Cliff Soubier) and Ling Wee (Junius Matthews), a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. Charles Schenck directed the scripts by Kane Campbell.

The syndicated series of 1948-49 featured a cast of Bill Lipton, Mason Adams and Robert Dryden. Sponsored by Autolite, the 15-minute episodes focused on Skeezix running a gas station and garage, the Wallet and Bobble Garage, with his partner, Wilmer Bobble. Honeywell ( is a major American multinational conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products engineering services and aerospace systems In New York this series aired on WOR from July 16, 1948 to January 7, 1949. Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Films

Gasoline Alley was adapted into two feature films, Gasoline Alley (1951) and Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951). At the time these films were in production, it was announced that the Gasoline Alley film series would replace the Blondie film series which came to an end in 1950 with Beware of Blondie. Blondie is a 1938 movie directed by Frank Strayer based on the comic strip of the same name.

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