STAFF PICKS :: GASOLINE ALLEY HC VOL 1 :: SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

September 20, 2012 at 2:50 pm By:


ANDY’S PICK :: GASOLINE ALLEY HC VOL 1: Usually, when the creator of comic strip retires or passes on, the strip continues on but fades into oblivion under less talented hands. When Frank King, the mastermind behind Gasoline Alley set down his pen after 40(!) years and turned it over to his assistant Dick Moores, the opposite occurred. Gasoline Alley was revitalized. Moores did more than just continue on with King’s vision of life in a Midwestern town where the characters all aged in real time–he made it his own and continued the successful strip for 20 exciting years before lightning miraculously struck a third time as he passed it off into the capable, talented hands of his assistant, Charlotte’s own Jim Scancarelli who continues the strip to this very day.

IDW presents the first two years of Dick Moore’s dailies. Moore’s comic stories are nothing short of delightful. It is everything a family strip should be and most often times is not. Funny, exciting, fast paced, but, very much like life itself, Gasoline Alley remembers to linger on and celebrate the quiet, ordinary moments.

Please give this volume a read– you will be in for the long haul. And if you like what you read–Heroes offers the D&Q Walt and Skeezix volumes that collect Gasoline Alley from 1921 to 1930!!

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