Over fifty years, George and Virginia Smith created more than 12,000 daily and Sunday comic strips, reaching millions of readers. The Boston Globe carried the feature for roughly forty-four years. Other papers included The Columbian, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Austin American-Statesman, The Prattville Progress, The Oregonian, the Houston Chronicle, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Jersey Journal, The Plain Dealer, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

What made the work distinctive was its willingness to go where polite conversation would not. The strip tackled gun control, military spending, environmental poisoning, women’s equality, and cultural hypocrisy decades before those topics were safe. It did so with a warmth that never felt preachy — because the argument always had to survive the kitchen.

This site is the family archive of that legacy: newspaper strips, magazine cartoons, original artwork, and the stories behind the work. It exists so the vision continues to speak, teach, inspire, and connect across generations.