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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Seaweed" by Johnny Sajem, 1977-1981 December 19th, 1979 as seen in the Belleville News-Democrat

Comic strip "Seaweed." A mother fish leads a school of children fish that look just like her. Another fish observes, "I hate it when someone repeats themself!"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Danny Fortune" by Bob McCormick and Bill Dulmage, 1958-1958 July 23rd, 1958 as seen in The Expositor

Serialized comic strip "Danny Fortune." The villain Kurt hits secretary Tanya Kane with his car, having blackmailed the woman into leaking top secret airplane schematics to him. Our hero, Royal Canadian Air Force test pilot Danny Fortune, and Police Inspector Kelly watch from their own car.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Classified Ad-Ventures" by Ben Stahl, 1936-1937 October 19th, 1936 as seen in the Racine Journal-Times

Serialized comic strip "Classified Ad-Ventures." Stories based on newspaper classifieds, a new story every two week. This story's classified reads, "YOUNG MAN desirous of learning trade or business. High school eduation; clerking and office experience. LD-143." A young man named Jack works at a gas station. A friend known for not having money pulls up and asks for gas, and Jack asks to see the money first. The friend pulls out five dollars, and Jack wonders if he robbed a bank. The friend is hosting a party and invites Jack, hoping to set her up with his cousin.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Goofus Animals" by Herbert Kirk and Nate Collier, 1930-1931 September 9th, 1930 as seen in the Daily News

Single panel comic strip "Goofus Animals." Cartoon scenes with poem captions. A stripped bird rolls two dice, crying out, "Roll Babies, Treat mamma nice!" Today's poem: "Goodfus Galloping Dominoes. (Suggested by H.L. of Philadelphia, Pa.) The Goofus Cowfinch lays spotted eggs / of cubic form, I've heard, / Which are used by her to gamble for worms / With the Early Bird. / 'Come seben - come 'leven,' the Cowfinch chirps, / 'Roll Babies - treat Mamma nice!' / If the Early Bird had a bit of sense / She'd now they were loaded dice!"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Old Sport Owl" by Clardy, 1915-1916 December 18th, 1915 as seen int he Oregon Daily Journal

Comic strip "Old Sport Owl." Subtitled "He Wanted the Whole Bill o' Fare and Then Some." There's a new Lady Barber in town, and Old Sport Owl, a dirty old man owl who hits on all the women owls, goes in for a haircut, shave and a bit of assault. After kissing the barber, she throws him through the window and into her barber pole.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The Refuge" by Taylor and Doyle, 1980-1981 December 2nd, 1980 as seen in the Daily Illini

Comic strip "The Refuge." An odd, off-putting man approaches a couple and asks the woman if she wants to go to his room and watch TV. The man she's with says they're together, so the odd man asks if he can go to their place and watch them instead.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Farnsworth" by L.F. van Zelm, 1958-1960 April 27th, 1959 as seen in the Bergen Evening Record

Comic strip "Farnsworth." The rich Mr. Farnsworth begs his wife for something as they enter the supermarket. Mrs. Fransworth initially says no, but finally relents, and starts pushing around Mr. Farnsworth in a shopping cart like he was a child.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Cheerful 'Chappie'" by Ted Johnson, 1944-1944 April 21st, 1944 as seen in the Atlanta Daily World

Comic strip "Cheerful 'Chappie'." Chappie meets Sam, a new army recruit who grew up on a farm. Sam mentions that waking up at five in the morning "is making a loafer out'a me!"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The Dubbville Foursome" by Alfred Brewerton, 1921-1927 August 12th, 1923 as seen in the Brooklyn Eagle

Single panel comic strip "The Dubbville Foursome." A golf-themed comic strip starring Doc, Dink, Chick and the Colonel. Dink lobs his golf ball from one sand trap into another. Nobody's having any luck today.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Movies Featuring Haphazard Helen" by Tom Rover, 1915-1916 May 21st, 1916 as seen in the Morning Tribune

Sunday comic strip "Movies Featuring Haphazard Helen." As told in rhyme, "the villain" chases Haphazard Helen into a tiger pit, then lights a fuse leading a boxes full of dynamite. Helen makes friends with the tiger and it bites off the fuse. It looks like Helen is going to get away, but she sees the pirate Captain Kidd approach. Comic originally created by Stewart W. Crothers, then given to Tom Rover after Crothers died falling out of a window.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Renfro" by Johnny Sajem, 1979-1979 December 19th, 1979 as seen in the Belleville News-Democrat

Comic strip "Renfro." Renfro as a representative of the Egg Producers of America on his radio show, who immediately tries to get ahead of any egg puns, having heard so many that he's "a shell of my former self." Renfro points out that the man just made an egg pun himself. "You said 'shell'!"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Jeff Buchanon" by Gordon Johnston, 1960-1961 June 13th, 1960 as seen in the Ottawa Journal

Serialized comic strip "Jeff Buchanon." Jeff Buchanon, a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery, uses a car radio to inform authorities that the mafia have kidnapped Reafe and Nancy Peirss.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean" by Jo Swirling, 1923-1924 October 16th, 1923 as seen in the Rochester Journal

Comic strip "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean." Based on the popular vaudeville act Gallagher and Shean, providing alternate lyrics to their titular song. Gallagher and Shean lament that with all the makeup and clothes there's nothing real about women these days, which includes Gallagher's wife. Gallagher insists that his wife's blonde hair is hers, after all he saw her buy it from the beauty shop.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Seaman Si" by Percival Pearce, 1916-1918 April 4th, 1918 as seen in the Great Lakes Bulletin

Comic strip "Seaman Si." Subtitled "It Will Be A Surprise Party For Mrs. Werden." Seaman Si gets an invite from Mrs. Werden for a tea party, requesting "the pleasure of Seaman Si's company." Si misunderstands the word "company," and invites the entire ship's worth of sailors to come along.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Dorothy and the Killies" by Benjamin Cory Kilvert, 1914-1915 January 1st, 1915 as seen in the Chicago Herald

Sunday comic strip "Dorothy and the Killies." Dorothy is a girl whose drawings, the "Killies," come to life. Two of her Killies rush out the door and get blown away by the wind, crashing into the cranky Killie King, who was drawn a long time ago by a different girl. The Killie King chases the Killies and Dorothy, and she girl has no choice but to erase him.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Lorna Dune" by Nancy Grunthaner, 1980-1989 April 18th, 1980 as seen in the Daily Illini

Comic strip "Lorna Dune." Two women appreciate the nice spring weather, at least until the breeze brings in the smell of the farms.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Dudley D." by David Gantz, 1961-1964 March 24th, 1961 as seen in the Houston Chronicle

Comic strip "Dudley D." Dudley is about to swat what he thinks is a fly, only to discover it's a beautiful topless fairy.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Little Magnolia" by Al Hart, 1944-1946 December 24th, 1944 as seen in the Atlanta Daily World

Comic strip "Little Magnolia." Magnolia struggles with her math homework. She asks her father for help in finding the greatest common divisor, and he says, "Is that thing still lost? The teacher had me hunting for it when I was at school!"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Off the Campus" by Walt Depew, 1933-1935 June 16th, 1935 as seen in the Des Moines Register

Sunday comic strip "Off the Campus." A topper strip for Walt Depew's "Ned Brant." A group of college students are out camping, and their chaperone, Jake, starts telling them stories of when he hunted lions in Africa. However, he's inconsistent with the details, like what weapon he was using, and soon gets called out.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The Trouble Brothers" by Mort M. Burger, 1902-1902 September 17th, 1902 as seen in the Evening World

Comic strip "The Trouble Brothers." The titular Trouble Brothers spot an artist carrying what appears to be body under his arm. They tell a cop, and he beats the artist over the head with his club. Turns out the "body" was just a mannequin the artist was using as reference for his painting. A caption reads, "They got the poor artist, with his lay figure, into trouble."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Hang-Ups" by Betty Runyon, 1979-1979 December 19th, 1979 as seen in the Belleville News-Democrat

Comic strip "Hang-Ups." A psychiatrist asks his patient why thinks of himself as "a rotten no good bum." The patient says it's because he's not going to pay for this session. The psychiatrist kicks him out.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Yankee Doodle Daily" by Charles "Chia" Wills and Rosemary White, 1974-1975 August 2nd, 1974 as seen in the Twin City Sentinel

Activity comic strip "Yankee Doodle Daily." Quizzes on historical figures. Today's question: "Who was Noah Webster? 1. Had a way with words... but always spoke in hyphens. 2. Built the first mobile library. 3. Invented the first U.S. dictionary. 4. All of the above." The strip never gave the answers.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Joe Woe" by Guy Gifford, 1962-1962 March 8th, 1962 as seen in the Perris Progress

Comic strip "Joe Woe." Street car conductor Joe Woe has a bit of a cough, and everyone starts giving him different remedies and sketchy medicines. Joe talks all of them without complaint, and soon winds up very sick in bed. A doctor asks his wife to remember "what in the world he's been eating!!"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Ace Drummond" by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and Clayton Knight, 1933-1939 February 27th, 1937 as seen in the Richmond News Leader

Serialized Sunday comic strip "Ace Drummond." Pilot Ace Drummond and his sidekick Bill fly over the island base of sky pirate El Reptil in hopes of finding someone he kidnapped. After hiding in the clouds, their plane glides in at night, dropping bombs. Their wing catches on fire, so Bill wraps a rope around himself and climbs over to put it out, but the extinguisher doesn't work. CONTINUED NEXT WEEK!

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The Story of Hungry Henrietta" by Winsor McCay, 1905-1905 January 14th, 1905 as seen in the Indianapolis Star

Serialized comic strip "The Story of Hungry Henrietta." Family gather around six-month old Henrietta, talking over each other and creating quite the over-stimulating environment. Henrietta starts crying, but the adults assume it's because she's hungry, so she's given a bottle.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Woggles" by Edd Uluschak, 1991-1992 March 9th, 1992 as seen in the Star-Phoenix

Single panel comic strip "Woggles." A rich business man says, "Crime's redundant - There are too many legal ways to be dishonest these days!"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"M.L. Dale" by Doyle and Frieding, 1978-1979 October 5th, 1978 as seen in the Daily Illini

Comic strip "M.L. Dale." M.L Dale's girlfriend is breaking up with him. He asks her to pretend to love him, and she replies, "Forget it. This is college, not Mr. Roger's Neighborhood."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Sammy Squirrel" by Chet Taylor, 1963-1963 April 11th, 1963 as seen in the Oklahoma County Herald

Serialized comic strip "Sammy Squirrel." Sammy Squirrel hears a little voice coming from under a mushroom, and finds a little elf man whom we'll later learn is named Mr. Toes.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The Wows" by Al Zere, 1930-1930* June 5th, 1932 as seen in the Passiac Sunday Eagle *reprints until 1933

Serialized comic strip "The Wows." Two comedians, Mort and Eddie, wash dishes to make their way in Johnstown. A final caption reads, "As you sit in your pleasant room surrounded by an atmosphere of comfort, luxury and love do you ever think of the thousands of dishwashers toiling and moiling in restaurants, tea rooms, etc.? Well, who does?"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The Love of Lulu and Leander" by F. M. Howarth, 1902-1908 March 25th, 1906 as seen in the Butte Miner

Sunday comic strip "The Love of Lulu and Leander." Men are unloading barrels from a truck, blocking the sidewalk. This angers Leander, who despite his fiancee's Lulu's protests, angrily confronts the men. However, he winds up in the way of one of the barrels, which crashes into him and sends him into one of the men, who beats him up. Now injured, Lulu and Leander are going to have to postpone their wedding

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Wired" by J.D. Crowe, 1989-1989 February 15th, 1989 as seen in The Citizen

Single panel comic strip "Wired." A small man in oversized clothes puts a hand on a toaster, trying to faith heal it. Caption reads, "The Revrunt Phineas Phixit, Small Appliance Healer."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Gremlin's Valley" by Maywell, 1979-1979 December 19th, 1979 as seen in the Belleville News-Democrat

Comic strip "Gremlin's Valley." One gremlin asks a second how how stay afloat in water. The second gremlin tells him that ducks have oil on their feathers, but the first gremlin's bird friend is an owl. Turns out he can float because he's covered in oil from an oil slick.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Stees Sees" by John Stees, 1958-1970 September 22nd, 1968 as seen in the New Jersey Herald

Sunday comic strip "Stees Sees." One panel gags with a shared theme, this week's being "Cottage by the Sea." 1. A huge family has already eaten all the food they bought yesterday. 2. A husband doesn't want to get out of bed to walk on the beach and watch the sunrise with his wife. 3. A man's father-in-law caught a large amount of fish and now he's stuck cleaning them. 4. A little girl snitches on her father for watching girls through binoculars. 5. Sunscreen makes a boy slippery. 6. A boy with swim gear doesn't know what to do with himself.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Mr. Magoo" by Pete Alvarado, 1964-1965 December 19th, 1964 as seen in the San Antonio Light

Comic strip "Mr. Magoo," a tie-in to the Mr. Magoo character created by UPA. The nearsighted Mr. Magoo sits in a theater, booing the show, calling it dull. As he leaves, we see that this wasn't a play, but a police lineup.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Lariat Pete" by George Herriman, 1900-1903 October 25th, 1903 as seen in the Atlanta Journal

Sunday comic strip "Lariat Pete." Subtitled "Lariat Pete Draws a Fat Man for his Nephew." Cowboy Lariat Pete shows off to his nephew by making an outline of a person on a wooden fence. A police officer comes to arrest Pete for this destruction of property, but Pete lassos the officer's legs, strings him upside down, and makes an outline of him on the fence as well, much to the nephew's delight. Strip originally created by J. Campbell Cory.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Thadeus & Weez" by Charles Pugsley Fincher, 1986-2005 March 31st, 1996 as seen in the Houston Chronicle

Comic strip "Thadeus & Weez." Weez, a weasel, asks Thadeus, a guy, what the difference is between a campaign contribution and a bribe. Thadeus replies, "Jail time."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Buffalo Chips" by "Mary & Me,"* 1983-1986 December 12th 1983 as seen in The Enterprise *Mary Marie

Comic strip "Buffalo Chips." Mary and Marnie reflect on their childhoods, when they believes stories had happy endings. These days, with the mess of her life, Mary just wants AN ending.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Short Cuts to Reading" by Dorothy Taft Watson, Joan Beck and Becky, 1965-1965 September 19th, 1965 as seen in The Register

Educational comic strip "Short Cuts to Reading." Guides for parents in teaching their children to read, intended to be cut out of the newspaper and made into a book. Today's lesson suggests teaching preschool children the sounds of letters before their names, demonstrating with the letter H.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Pieces of Eight" by Charles B. Driscoll and Montfort Amory, 1933-1936 June 28th, 1934 as seen in the Atlantic City Press

Serialized pirate comic strip "Pieces of Eight." Full text: "The Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's pirate ship, had been attracted by smoke on shore. he was sailing without her Captain now, under command of Mate Richards. Her crew had given up the search for the pirate Captain. She had been coasting along slowly, looking for any life ashore that might lead to a clue to the whereabouts of Captain Teach, called Blackbeard, who had been captured by Indians after a fierce battle. The smoke caused rejoicing aboard. 'We'll go in close and have a look,' said Richards. 'It might be the Captain, making a signal, and it might be the red devils who have him in tow." Strangely enough, pirates and Indians though of one another as devils. So, on a certain bright morning, the Queen Anne's Revenge cast anchor, and Richards took a position in the cross-trees, with a spy-glass, to survey the scene on the wide beach. The men waited expectantly."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Hugo Hercules" by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner, 1902-1903 December 28th, 1902 as seen in the Chicago Tribune

Sunday comic strip "Hugo Hercules." Subtitled "Hugo Hercules at New Year's Bowling Contest." Hugo Hercules, a man with superhuman strength, joins a bowling contest, rolling the bowling ball so hard it breaks through the wall and crashes into a trolley. As everyone recollects themselves, Hugo wins the medal.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Howie" by Randy Glasbergen, 1979-1981 November 13th, 1979 as seen in the Des Moines Register

Single panel comic strip "Howie." Toothpaste is coming out of Howie's bathroom sink. He tells his wife, "When the city said they were going to fluoridate the water I thought..."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Moon Platoon" by John R. Koch, 1966-1966 March 23rd, 1966 as seen in the Evening Sun

Comic strip "Moon Platoon." Three astronauts on the moon watch as a "flying cub" sails by. "I thought it was 'saucers'," one astronaut says. "That's the '66 model," another replies.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"White House People" by Colin B. Montis, 1948-1949 November 14th, 1948 as seen in the Worcester Telegram

Single panel historical comic strip "White House People." Profiles on former presidents. Full text: "Thomas Jefferson, it is claimed, wrote more letters with his own hand than any other person who ever lived. More than 25,000 of them are preserved today."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Doc Syke" by Ving Fuller, 1944-1960 May 21st, 1946 as seen in the Cincinnati Enquirer

Comic strip "Doc Syke." Doc Syke makes a house call, but Mrs. Flapnoodle is cross, saying he's brought bad language into her home. Doc Syke hasn't used any bad language, of course, but Flapnoodle's husband did when he tries Syke's medicine.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The Sunbonnet Babies" by Bertha L. Corbett, 1907-1908 March 15th, 1908 as seen in the Boston Globe

Sunday comic strip "The Sunbonnet Babies." Today's strip subtitled "The Sunbonnet Babies Fly a Kite." The Sunbonnet Babies, two sisters with bonnets that cover their faces, try to fly a giant kite, but it scoops up one of the sisters along with their dog Snap. Eventually, they fall into a tree, unharmed.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The Meaning of Lila" by John Forgetta and "L.A. Rose,"* 2004-2012 August 14th, 2006 as seen in the Staten Island Advance *Kathy Dow, Justin Raines, Jackie Gentile, and Tony Calabro

Comic strip "The Meaning of Lila." Lila is brought in for her six month review at her job. To prepare, she puts on a suit of armor for "verbal protection." This comic strip took five people to make apparently.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Trees" by Daerick Gross Jr., 1981-1982 February 4th, 1981 as seen in The Enterprise

Comic strip "Trees." One tree shows another tree a poster of their favorite cover girl, "Cheryl Twigs," a play of model Cheryl Tiegs.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Feathers" by Alfred Borelli and Manuel Almada, 1967-1969 October 22nd, 1967 as seen in the Standard Times

Comic strip "Feathers." Thundercloud, a young Native American boy, asks where everybody is going. She tells him they've gone off the hunt to get skins for clothes. Thundercloud hates that they have to kill the animal for the skin. "I don't see why we can't wear em live!"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Back Home Again" by Ed Dodd*, 1933-1946** December 29th, 1934 as seen in the Dowagiac Daily News *incorrectly credited here as Ed Doad **reprints until 1952

Single panel comic strip "Back Home Again." Older sister Elsie chases her younger brother Willie ("little brainless idiot!") around the room for using her bath salts to wash the dog. Willie tells his sister ("dumbbell") that she's always complaining when he washes the dog with tar soap and doesn't know why she's angry now that the dog smells nice. Father watches from the door, and the dog walks about proud and clean. Caption reads, "Flirtin' With Trouble."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Cory's Kids" by J. Campbell Cory, 1915-1916 May 2nd, 1915 as seen in the Omaha World-Herald

Sunday comic strip "Cory's Kids." A golfer asks an overweight child to help be his caddie. The boy tries his best, but gets exhausted easily, and then gets beamed in the head by a golf ball. The boy quits, and the golfer gives him fifty cents for his trouble. The boy wants to go buy ice cream, but realizes there's a hole in his pocket and he's lost the money. A final caption reads, ""Why pretend we want to live when we dont? We fall for ritches to bank-rupsy - From lucksury to squoller, no matter how we toil and strive - why strugel on agensy the downwerd currant of life's streem? Doggone it!" Kids, could you lighten up a little?

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