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Gasoline Alley Daily 2/18/36 by Frank King

Artist: Frank King (All)

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Title:	Gasoline Alley Daily 2/18/36 by Frank King
Artist:	Frank King (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	759
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	11/23/2012
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Another Frank King masterpiece. I really liked it both artistically and thematically. I thought his rendering was well done and his gestures convey so much, being tired and hard worked. Although he often skirted around the depression the themes were inescapable. The politics of inequity and the empathy and insight of this daily are what really drew me in. There are racist undertones to almost all the strip art and popular culture material of this era but there is compassion here. The travellers on the road is a recurrent theme in Gasoline Alley with the trips Walt took and his observations about the travels of others. Gasoline Alley stands alone in my eyes as the greatest American comic strip. I am ashamed it took me so long discover it but I am glad I did. Russ Cochran had a great deal to do with bringing this strip to the attention of many collectors and I hope we see Fantagraphics finish at least the first several decades in reprints.

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Jerry C.
Member Since 2009

Posted on 10/4/2013

Simple, generous, beautiful! Love it all!

Alex Johnson
Member Since 2006
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Posted on 12/7/2020

Beautiful and thought provoking.

Yes, there is stereotypical characature in play, but tthe words and scene overwhelm it, IMO. Excellent.

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