Thirty Years Ago …

Here’s some current comics as they were posted on January 16, 1995

Baby Blues is still building that family.

Big Nate is easily recognizable, without much change.

Arlo and Janis look a big younger, but otherwise the same.

FoxTrot was still in dailies.

I wanted to check Gasoline Alley, which is famous both for being long-running and for aging the characters. But they’ve switched syndicates over time, and I got the message “Gasoline Alley started on April 8, 2001”.

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  1. Unknown's avatar

    Gasoline Alley didn’t change syndicates, it has been with Tribune from the beginning. I suspect that’s when GoComics/Uclick first contracted to carry the strip on the site. It’s one of a minority that are not syndicated by GC’s parent company, Andrews-McMeel/Universal.

    At one time, GA was running on Comics Kingdom as well, but it’s not listed on their main site although I did find it on the Seattle Times feed from CK.

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    Went looking for that strip, and no luck. But looking for it led me to a couple very interesting sites – the Digital Comic Museum (lots of Gasoline Alley, between 1918 and 1930), and Old Time Radio Researchers who (for some reason) have scans from the 1920s up through 1975.

    https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=1177

    https://otrr.org/?c=mags

    https://otrr.org/FILES/Magz_pdf/Comics/Gasoline%20Alley/

    I don’t know yet what all else they have, but this should be fun.

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