{"id":698,"date":"2008-09-12T11:18:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2008-09-12T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:21:56","slug":"crumbling-paper-gasoline-alley-strip-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/crumbling-paper-gasoline-alley-strip-1\/","title":{"rendered":"CRUMBLING PAPER: Gasoline Alley (strip #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NOTE TO NEW READERS:<\/strong> The Crumbling Paper Index is a repository of old comics I’ve scanned, many of which are over 100 years old. You can see the full index here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a typically beautiful example I scanned of a Gasoline Alley<\/em> Sunday from 1933 by Frank King, with Unca Walt pulling a Calvin’s Dad<\/a>. A Halloween strip to get you in the mood for next month.<\/p>\n

In this wonderful new world of comics reprint books we live in, there are currently a lot of wonderful Gasoline Alley books in print… three Walt and Skeezix<\/em><\/a>\"\" books from Drawn and Quarterly<\/a> collecting the dailies, and one amazing book of Sundays from Sunday Press Books<\/a>, Sundays With Walt and Skeezix<\/em>.<\/a>\"\" The strips in the Sunday Press book are printed full size and are eye-bleedingly gorgeous. <\/p>\n

There are also some books of earlier, pre-Skeezix, Gasoline Alley strips I haven’t seen yet available at the Spec Productions website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Click the image to view the full strip.<\/p>\n

Click here to read some other strips by Frank King at Barnacle Press.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a Frank King strip at The Stripper’s Guide.<\/a><\/p>\n

And another one.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some Frank King strips from The Balloonist.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the Wikipedia entry on Gasoline Alley.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the Toonopedia entry on Gasoline Alley.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a video of Frank King at his drawing board. <\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to read about Frank King at lambiek.net.<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Gabriel Corbera at the Headsonboard Joyville Blog<\/a> points us to a bunch of gorgeous large scans of Gasoline Alley<\/em> strips online that I missed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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