Origins of the Sunday Comics by Peter Maresca for January 20, 2014

Please please please reproduce so the printing is legible on an iPad !

I second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninthand tenth your motion!! It is really great to see thesecomics from over 100 years ago, but they would makemore sense and be more enjoyable if we could read them!!!

Even enlarged it’s too blurry.

I agree. This strip wasn’t even that large, it should have been a simple matter to increase the scanning resolution, so that the text would have been legible when zoomed in.

If the GoComics platform does not support a higher resolution, then this feature should be moved to a website that does.

here is the text:

Cell 1Never mind Patsy, my rheumatism will soon goI’m tired

cell 2And he will make a fine horse

cell 3There will be a good bit in my will for you PatsyT’anks

cell 4Meow

cell 8Before you take another stitch doctor, will you kindly kick that brat in the neck good and hardI to’t so

Thanks rich601

Well, it was a good idea..till the cat showed up.

I’ve seen a lot of these strips in their original form in old newspapers. They were hard to read even then. The art of inking text in cartoons has come a long way in 60 years.