Uncle Walt,Baby Skeezix,comic strip,1923,Frank King

Title: Gasoline Alley. This is the life, Skeezix! / King.
Creator(s): King, Frank, 1883-1969, artist
Date Created/Published: 1923 June 24.
Summary: Thirteen-panel comic strip shows Uncle Walt and Baby Skeezix out for a ride in his roadster when the radiator boils over. Walt refills the radiator making 62 trips using his hat. Later Walt decides to solve future problems by buying a bigger hat. Gasoline Alley was begun in 1918 (or 1919) focusing on cars. Baby Skeezix arrived as a foundling in 1921 to add interest for women. The strip was the first in which the characters aged in real time. King died in 1969, but the strip is still published today.
Notes:
Title from item.
Copyright 1923 by Chicago Tribune.
Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
Unprocessed in WOOD/King.249
Sources: Don Markstein's toonopedia [online] ljr
Subjects:
Automobiles--United States--1920-1930.
Vehicle maintenance & repair--1920-1930.
Hats--1920-1930.
Comics--American--1920-1930.
Ink drawings--American--Color--1920-1930.
Bookmark /2005680368/
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