Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for April 26, 2024

You tell ’im Melba!!

Now, it’s time for that bozo to leave town and never return.

His puffy sails are going limp.

Joel and Rufus still riding around town in a donkey cart, that’s certainly an anachronism in the strip.

(Not to mention a featured male character named Allison.)

Hey,hey, blow the man down! Melba tell him “You’re fired”!

The End.

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Thanks Mr. King!

He must be getting one huge bribe to want to make the change tis badly perhaps a government hand out for becoming green…

Long time lurker – ? any clue as to why Imaswine wants to change the name? I don’t recall any clues as to how he makes money off of it.

That’s the 3rd. degree. Frank O. King game birth to the town of Gasoline Alley since 1918!

Hmm…last month Walt said City Hall was well over a century old. I guess 106 years will have to count for “well over a century” :)

So why can’t they just amend the town charter? That works for the U.S. constitution and the various States’ constitutions.

And Melba hands Imaswine a broom and tells him to get busy over at the town stables…..

Miss Melba seems to have a different from what I remember, or is it my old age?

in the next election will Melba be toast?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Good news, everyone! They’re not going to change the name of Gasoline Alley after all, because the Town Charter contains a number of entrenched clauses, laid down more than a century ago, that can never be amended or altered, even by a vote of the people or their representatives! This is probably fine. Hopefully Mayor Melba will not read whatever this document has to say about women holding office, or owning property.

Frank King was born in Cashton WI and moved to Tomah WI when he was four (some sources say two). Where did the name "Gasoline Alley come from? “Gasoline Alley was the nickname for Superior Avenue in Tomah, back in an age when automobiles were becoming popular and you could find a gas station on almost every corner … hence, Gasoline Alley.” In KIng’s strip, it was the nickname of the little street that Walt and the gang lived on, part of a much larger, unnamed city that most comics historians have assumed to be Chicago.

You’re outta luck, Imeswine! The town charter specifies that the town’s name CANNOT be changed. Discussion over. (Now go tell all those marketers you’ve been working with for post cards, pens, pencils, posters and so on, that the deals are off)

Can’t get a better authority than Mr Frank O. King!

In other words, the past 11 weeks’ strips have been a waste of time that resulted in no change whatsoever to the status quo. If only someone had predicted that.

I miss Melba’s hat.

Melba, my hero!!! (…or heroine)

IN perpetuity.

It means “Shove off, loser.”

Good stuff!

history! Awesome! Frank O. King!