Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for May 25, 2009

I am surprised there wasn’t a special strip commemorating Memorial Day.

This whole storyline is an Earl Lee Warning to faithful GA readers. Run. Run like the wind!

I was afraid he had…

Ludwig, I suspect the residents of Gasoline Alley know, as I do, that Memorial Day is supposed to be May 30, Monday holidays be d**ned.

So he’s left town? Oh poor Gertie.

NONE of the comics today are related to Memorial Day. I’m quite surprised.

Shucks !! Now I have to wait till tomorrow to find out what Byrd didn’t exactly do.

New Adventures of Queen Victoria has a beautiful Memorial Day tribute today.

Macushlalondra, you have to go through the comics again. There are some that has a Memorial day tribute.

Nancy over at CdotC has a nice tribute as well.

No Walt. No Memorial Day. No Gasoline Alley. No Fun.

Baldo has a mention of Memorial Day as well.

Nancy, not here at goComics, did a nice Memorial Day tribute.

Don’t run away and take the music with you, Byrd. Stay here and play for us.

Dypak, I met Nancy artist Guy Gilchrist at a store appearance. Very pleasant and sincere, very dedicated to teaching cartooning at his school.

Stringmuse– I agree, we need some more music– an encore. This has been a great run so far, and I’ll be sorry to see it end. I encourage Jim to keep taking chances, and to keep delivering the goods.

I’m an old-timey Gasoline Alley fan, who just found the strip after years away. I’m not exactly sure who these new characters are the past week or so, but they are somewhat interesting to me. I don’t think I can backtrack much, but will give it a try.

When my kids were younger my wife and I read to them everyday. They grew out of kids books pretty fast and we started reading real books to them. Just So Stories, by Kipling. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, plus alot of his short stories. All of the Discworld books. The list goes on and on. Anyway I could always hear all the voices in my head. Tom, Huck and Jim. Bagehra and Sher Khan (sorry, poor spelling, I know). The authors were so good the dialogue just came alive. When a book, or a comic, is well written the dialogue can leap out at you. I feel sorry for you if it’s never happened to you. To paraphrase Will Geer from the Guns of Will Sonnett TV show, ‘Not smary or smug, just fact.” —- Axe - I’ve really enjoyed Nancy since they’ve updated it. It still has this 30’s charm to it but is still modern for my students to enjoy it. I often print it off and post it on my bulletin board in class.

Hey, what do you teach?

Kids mostly.

And yet you maintain your cheerfulness! But is it art that you teach them?

OK, apparently I cannot go back more than 7 days. How much did I miss? I’ve come to the theater late.

Sorry about that, an old teacher joke. No, I teach history to 8th graders. I’m in my second career. Becoming a teacher was the one of the best choices I’ve ever made in my life. The kids are great, they want to learn. I enjoy every day at work. – Now please, don’t everyone start picking at my grammar and spelling. I typo just like the rest of you!

Dypak, Life is good, then.

Marseydotes, Gertie is Walt Wallet’s housekeeper. She has fallen for a musician named Earl, who chased her, and even proposed. She turned him down, but now has second thoughts. The trouble is, she can’t find him now.