See you in the funny papers!

[Beverly Flanigan]

I used to hear this too, in the '40s.

At 10:51 PM 11/23/2004, you wrote:
>This is an update to a 2002 thread.  At that time, some newspapers were not
>digitized as yet.
>
>Doug Wilson offered that HDAS showed from 1926:
>
><<Lighter's HDAS shows (vol I, p. 848, under "funny paper"): <<1926 Maines &
>Grant, _Wise-Crack Dict._ 14: _See you in the funny sheet_-- A humorous way
>of saying good-bye.>>
>
>The digitized Chicago Tribune has a cite from WGN(Chicago radio) in 1928,
>advertising a 12-1  Sunday show where "Uncle Quin" would read the "funny
>papers" to the kids listening along at home.   This show shows up from 1927
>in the Tribune.  But the first "see you in the funny papers" is 1928, as
>spoken by Uncle Quin in a adv. for his show.  'Course Uncle Quin didn't mean
>he was leaving.  He was actually reading the funnies to the kids in
>radioland.  (Perhaps he signed off with something like "see you in the funny
>papers.")
>
>Had to do this one for my deceased great aunt.  She always used to say that
>to me when I was leaving.
>
>Sam Clements