Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my reminiscence about reading newspaper comics, "Comic Strip Club."'
While a look at this blog's comics label reveals well over 200 times I've written about comic books, I've never written very much about newspaper comic strips. Other than "Comic Strip Club," some passing mention in my Everlasting First recollections of discovering Flash Gordon and Tarzan, and the history of my own creation Jack Mystery, the only other notable comic strip connection here is 2018's "Dick Tracy Meets The Green Hornet!," my enthusiastic reaction to the news that those two pop culture icons would be meeting in the Dick Tracy strip.
(As a tangent to that, it's worth noting that my prevailing interest in the Green Hornet and Kato has also manifested in an Everlasting First piece, a Greatest Record Ever Made! piece about "The Green Hornet Theme," an abortive attempt at a 1966-set Green Hornet rock 'n' roll comic book called The Beat And The Sting (represented in a teaser and in some introductory pages), and--of course!--radio commercials starring the Green Hornet and Kato and (separately) the Beatles for a fast-food taco restaurant. Another challenge for the Green Hornet!)
But right now, we talk about the serious subject of the funny pages. "Comic Strip Club" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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