Saturday Leftover Day.
I may have sahred some of these before, bit that's becaus eI think it is one of the funniest strips of it's period. DSadly forgotten and mever collected.
Showing posts with label Frank Roberge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Roberge. Show all posts
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Flatout Funny
Sunday, September 15, 2019
You Never Walk Alone
Sunday Revisit Day.
Today another set of strips from a series I have shown before. In fact, if you go an follow the link you will find many weeks of samples for this very funny forgotten Mort Walker strip, Mrs. FItz' Flat. Made at the time when the Mort Walker team (including Jerry Dumas and artist Frank Roberge) were firing on all cilinders on Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois as well (with Sam's Strip only a couple of years away).
Today another set of strips from a series I have shown before. In fact, if you go an follow the link you will find many weeks of samples for this very funny forgotten Mort Walker strip, Mrs. FItz' Flat. Made at the time when the Mort Walker team (including Jerry Dumas and artist Frank Roberge) were firing on all cilinders on Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois as well (with Sam's Strip only a couple of years away).
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Mrs. Fitz' Menagerie
Saturday Comic Strip Day.
Since I am only posting twice a week these days, I am trying to save up all the best stuff for you. Here are a couple of self scanned dailies from one of my favorite strips from the Mort Walker factory in the late fifties. The variety of characters in Mrs. Fitz' boarding house is delightfull.
Since I am only posting twice a week these days, I am trying to save up all the best stuff for you. Here are a couple of self scanned dailies from one of my favorite strips from the Mort Walker factory in the late fifties. The variety of characters in Mrs. Fitz' boarding house is delightfull.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Character Building
Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
When Mrs. Fitz' Flats first arrived in the late fifties, it was one of the sahrpest new comic strips. Written by the Mort Walker team (including Jerry Dumas) that was also responsible for the equeally good Hi and Lois and Beetle Bailey, it featured an elderly ladlady and her super who rent rooms to an assortment of weird guests. Very sharp humored and nicely drawn by the otherwise mundane Roberge. Somewhere in 1960 he wass allowed to continue the strip in hi onw (presumable when Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas went on to do the even better Sam's Strip). He moved Mrs. Fitz and her super (now her husband, I guess) to Miami or some other retirement state and turned it into a dull strip about the elderly. How he continued it trough the rest of the sixties I don't know. But I recently clipped a lot of the later strips and I was surprised to see some of the older characters back and the humor up to the old level. Did he return to his roots, or did he (as one of my readers suggests) simple reuse the older gags? Either way the results were as good as they had been, which leaves us with more to enjoy.
When Mrs. Fitz' Flats first arrived in the late fifties, it was one of the sahrpest new comic strips. Written by the Mort Walker team (including Jerry Dumas) that was also responsible for the equeally good Hi and Lois and Beetle Bailey, it featured an elderly ladlady and her super who rent rooms to an assortment of weird guests. Very sharp humored and nicely drawn by the otherwise mundane Roberge. Somewhere in 1960 he wass allowed to continue the strip in hi onw (presumable when Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas went on to do the even better Sam's Strip). He moved Mrs. Fitz and her super (now her husband, I guess) to Miami or some other retirement state and turned it into a dull strip about the elderly. How he continued it trough the rest of the sixties I don't know. But I recently clipped a lot of the later strips and I was surprised to see some of the older characters back and the humor up to the old level. Did he return to his roots, or did he (as one of my readers suggests) simple reuse the older gags? Either way the results were as good as they had been, which leaves us with more to enjoy.
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