Here's a little taste of one of the all-time great strips:
Barnaby by Crockett Johnson. This was strictly a daily, created for the legendary New York paper
PM (when the paper died, so did the strip). There was no Sunday version, so no color full pages either. Still, this was one of the most imaginative comics of its generation (the 1940s), and can be seen as a clear antecedent to later strips like Calvin & Hobbes.
The plot revolved around Barnaby, a more or less average middle class kid, and his adventures with Mr. O'Malley, his fairy godfather. O'Malley was a bit of a charlatan, but endearingly so, as is evident in these examples.
For some reason, there are very few samples of this strip on-line, though the strip was collected several times into books (I have a six-issue series of paperbacks published in the eighties), so if you like these, check out your local library. It'd be time well-spent.
Here's a little taste of one of the all-time great strips: Barnaby by Crockett Johnson. This was strictly a daily, created for the legendary New York paper PM (when the paper died, so did the strip). There was no Sunday version, so no color full pages either. Still, this was one of the most imaginative comics of its generation (the 1940s), and can be seen as a clear antecedent to later strips like Calvin & Hobbes. 
The plot revolved around Barnaby, a more or less average middle class kid, and his adventures with Mr. O'Malley, his fairy godfather. O'Malley was a bit of a charlatan, but endearingly so, as is evident in these examples. 
For some reason, there are very few samples of this strip on-line, though the strip was collected several times into books (I have a six-issue series of paperbacks published in the eighties), so if you like these, check out your local library. It'd be time well-spent.
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