Red and Rover by Brian Basset for January 08, 2011

Which comic strip is that out of RED?

It’s an old one, from the 50-60’s, a serial strip used as filler.

I don’t recognize this one at all…does anyone know the name of it?

I don’t recall this one.

I would have thought Red would take a stab at Dagwood.

ya but those girls who lived there then will be in their 80’s now.

I don’t know what it was like in its heyday but it’s pretty sappy/soapy now. It’s available on Daily Ink but I never read it. Here is a quote from the King Features website’

“Apartment 3-G was created in 1952 by psychiatrist Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis. Already the originator of two successful soap-opera comic strips, “Rex Morgan, M.D.” and “Judge Parker,” Dr. Dallis wanted to turn his attention to a phenomenon that was sweeping the nation: working women.

To do this, Dallis realized that he could not rely upon tried-and-trite stereotypes. With his keen insight into human nature, he created three women with whom his readers could identify because of their humanity, their strength and the truth of their portrayals. Sharing a New York apartment has enabled these three unmarried career women to come together in a place of strength, to meet head-on the challenges they face every day, and to become more than friends and closer than sisters.

Apartment 3-G is one of the few strips that has not fallen behind the times; rather, the world has sped to catch up with it. More contemporary than ever, the strip speaks directly to the new generation of women who try to juggle careers, men and friendship. Today Apartment 3-G is written by Margaret Shulock and drawn by Frank Bolle.

Whenever readers feel they need a friend, they know they can always find one in Apartment 3-G.”

^Thanks herbthiel, I think I might check it out.

3-G was also carried in the Seattle Times, the paper that Brian worked for for years doing editorial cartoons.

Apartment 3G, thanks again Brian!

I can’t remember her name, but the blonde schoolteacher was not a single, but a war widow - from the Korean War.

grapfhics, that strip is still being produced today.

I remember that strip. I read it as a teenager, but haven’t seen it in years. Seems to me there was a LuAnn and a Margo and somebody else. It was kind of like reading a romance comic.

I would expect Red to do something on Dagwood or Archie (was he ever in the paper) or Spiderman

Apartment 3G has: Margo Magee who started as a secretary and is now owner of an Art Gallery. “Tommie” Thompson a nurse. LuAnn Powers Art Teacher. LuAnn is supposedly a widow. Now, her husband supposedly died in Persian Gulf war. They keep changing that because the ladies never age.

ellisaana, Yup! Archie used to be my favourite Sunday strip in the 50’s! The comic books were never as good!