Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for August 16, 2023

Good morning early grade school readers !

I admit that if I had kindergarten age youngsters I would steer them to this one. They may outgrow the strip as they get older but they’ll have good memories of early life readership.

Jones? Could be!

This is not quite as exciting as Dick Tracy.

Today in our Facebook group:

Gasoline Alley “years ago today” for August 16:

100 (1923) – Avery and Emily return home victorious but still no word about Walt and Skeezix

80 (1943) – Turnabout fair play (see August 3 in comments); also, war news from this date

75 (1948) – Peace between Skeezix and Blunt; how long will it last?

60 (1963) – Dr. Fuddle and Skeezix discuss the book

BONUS: 45 (1978) – The bank retrieves the stolen money

since the bear can talk, i guess it’s assumed he can read too?

The Ursine version of Moses?

So the talking bear also needs to know how to read.

Hoogy has to report the found child. Can you imagine her trying to explain a bear told her the kid was tangled in the bushes?

Thanks half-pint. You just saved me a lot of investigative work.

He has a monkey on his back.