Hi and Lois and Dick and Mary

Friday Family Feast. 

In my folders I had two months of early Hi and Lois dailies. And noew they are here. I like this early period, when Hi and Lois both had their own world and gags. A bit like The Dick van Dyke Show.

All Around The family

Saturday Leftover Day 

Just like last week, here are some prime leftovers from Mort Walker and his associates. I have said it before, but all of the Mort Walker produced strips from the 1956-1962 period are the best they ever produced. A very nice mix of the family and the outside world to keep the sentimental gags in balance.

 

Merry Menagery

Sunday Surprise Day. With yesterdays long run of Hi and Lois dailies from 1959 comes a similar run of another member from Walker Family of strips, the unjustly forgotten Mrs. Fitz' Flats. It was drawn by Frank Roberge (who also did the Beetle comics and worked for the family deep into this century), but if you compare it to his other work you can see he must have followed the sketches by Mort, Jerry Dumas and the other writers very closely. I love the basic idea of an old lady running a boarding house, I love the characters and the gags are of the same quality as those for Hi and Lois and Beetle at the same time.