comic strip words revisited

[Baker, John]

        No, these were two separate and quite different strips.  Smokey
Stover, a famous screwball strip, appeared from 1935 to 1973.  Gasoline
Alley, a slice-of-life strip where the characters age in real time,
began in 1918 or 1919 and is still being produced.  (Start dates can be
a judgment call for early comic strips.)  Smokey Stover is the source of
nonsense terms such as "foo," "Notary Sojac" and "1506 Nix Nix."


John Baker


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Subject: Re: comic strip words revisited

I think Wilson is right; the later days of Gasoline Alley (maybe in the
50's) were known just as Smoky Stover.

dInIs

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