Boston Sunday Globe
The Smith Family
Smiles lift the spirit, warm the heart, and edify.
The family archive of George and Virginia Smith’s newspaper strip — theology at the back door, gun laws at dinner, and a child asking why the garbage isn’t savagery.
501(c)(3) public charity · EIN 85-0594518
- Years
- 1950–97
- Children
- Eleven
- Grandchildren
- Twenty-one
- Papers
- 60+
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A 501(c)(3) public charity.
The Smith Family Comic — also known as The Smith Family Comic Archive Project — is a registered U.S. public charity. We preserve, digitize, and share the Smith Family strip free of charge for students, researchers, and anyone who grew up with the funny pages.
Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. EIN 85-0594518.
Today’s strip
The arts really got the shaft
Wow! The biggest part of our taxes are going for things that go boom.
1981 · Boston Sunday Globe · sunday
George Smith
With each passing day the gap grows between the adult and the dreaming innocence of the child.
If a child is lucky enough to have a dreaming innocence, and fewer and fewer are… there’s no hope for kids but to grow up and join the rat race.
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On the table
Originals, the wallet, and Tillich in the hallway.
The Ruminations page about grandson Charlie — “Leave door open, Gampa” — sits with gag sketches, a stippled self-portrait, and the old “boy wonder of cartoondom” clipping.
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