The drawer
The strips
62 on file
1981 · Boston Sunday Globe · sunday
The arts really got the shaft
Wow! The biggest part of our taxes are going for things that go boom.
1974 · daily
The grandeur of reason incarnate
Guy on TV described us as “the grandeur of reason incarnate in existence…” just before the news came on.
1974 · daily
Still living in the primitive phase
Mom, if subjugation and exploitation of the weak is savagery, how come I gotta bring out the garbage all the time?
1973 · daily
Who will make tomorrow’s bombs?
If you ask me this country is getting too darn liberal. Goodness! If this gets out of hand, who will make tomorrow’s bombs?
1975 · daily
A new national anthem
There is a movement to get a new national anthem. Something not reminiscent of war. May I suggest… Plop Plop Fizz Fizz.
1972 · daily
Do they give anesthesia?
The first thing you should do is find out if they give anesthesia.
1974 · daily
The smartest one in the family
You can get a rise out of ’em by asking who they think is the smartest one in the family.
1960 · daily
The most important point of my whole speech
Now, the most important point of my whole speech!
1960 · daily
A 1960 daily
Distributed by The George Matthew Adams Service, Inc.
1960 · daily
After dinner
A three-panel daily from the Adams Service years.
1962 · sunday
The Smith Family — Sunday splash
A full Sunday title page from the family years.
1963 · sunday
Off to work
Dad leaves for the office; the house instantly reorganizes around the children.
1964 · sunday
The track meet in the kitchen
Eleven children will do this to a stove.
1965 · sunday
A pile of leaves
Autumn in a house that never ran out of children.
1964 · sunday
On the porch
A Sunday page of porch-sitting, errands, and the next small crisis.
1965 · sunday
The yard
The Smith backyard as a civic institution.
1966 · sunday
Dishes, then philosophy
A Sunday kitchen page — the sink as seminar table.
1968 · sunday
Should people be allowed to carry guns?
Don’t you think people should be allowed to carry guns?
1967 · daily
What a vicious species
Goodness! What a vicious species!
1966 · daily
Two really real parents
A four-panel daily from the domestic laboratory.
1960 · The Oregonian · clipping
As printed in The Oregonian
The Smith Family on the comics page of The Oregonian, Portland — Monday, April 25, 1960.
1961 · The Salt Lake Tribune · clipping
As printed in the Salt Lake Tribune
January 6, 1961 — The Smith Family in the Salt Lake Tribune.
1961 · The Houston Chronicle · clipping
As printed in the Houston Chronicle
January 3, 1961 — Houston Chronicle comics page.
1962 · The Jersey Journal · clipping
As printed in the Jersey Journal
February 2, 1962 — Jersey Journal.
1961 · The Plain Dealer · clipping
As printed in The Plain Dealer
June 24, 1961 — Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1961 · The Plain Dealer · clipping
Cleveland, July 1961
July 22, 1961 — The Plain Dealer comics page.
1961 · The Plain Dealer · clipping
Cleveland, August 1961
August 19, 1961 — The Plain Dealer.
1964 · Fort Worth Star-Telegram · clipping
As printed in Fort Worth, 1964
August 10, 1964 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
1968 · Fort Worth Star-Telegram · clipping
As printed in Fort Worth, 1968
October 14, 1968 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
1993 · Lancaster New Era · clipping
Late period — Lancaster, 1993
December 23, 1993 — Lancaster New Era. The strip outlived three syndicates.
1960 · daily
Now I lays me down to thleep
A bedtime daily from the Adams Service years — theology, again, at pillow height.
1961 · daily
Second helpings
Another kitchen daily — the track meet, plated.
1972 · daily
Do they give anesthesia?
A later printing of the dentist-office gag, as clipped from the family files.
1968 · daily
Allowed to carry guns — the daily
Don’t you think people should be allowed to carry guns?
1954 · The Boston Globe · daily
A 1954 daily
From the early Globe years — chaos, confusion, love and fun.
1954 · daily
A 1954 daily, continued
Same year, same house, next small crisis.
1954 · daily
Still 1954
The strip as it looked when papers were still introducing the family.
1951 · daily
A magazine gag
One of the single-panel cartoons George sold to the big slicks before — and beside — the strip.
1954 · Beaumont Journal · clipping
Smith Family comic strip to begin Saturday
Beaumont Journal, April 23, 1954 — chaos, confusion, love and fun, coming to a new paper.
1953 · The Evening News · clipping
Tina is running around naked, Mom
The Evening News, Harrisburg — Friday, March 6, 1953.
1955 · The Evening News · clipping
As printed in Harrisburg, 1955
The Evening News — June 24, 1955.
1959 · The Evening News · clipping
Harrisburg, 1959
The Evening News — November 20, 1959.
1968 · The Evening News · clipping
Harrisburg, 1968
The Evening News — August 27, 1968.
1969 · The Evening News · clipping
Harrisburg, 1969
The Evening News — August 6, 1969.
1972 · The Evening News · clipping
Harrisburg, 1972
The Evening News — June 1, 1972.
1979 · The Evening News · clipping
Harrisburg, 1979
The Evening News — January 11, 1979.
1988 · The Evening News · clipping
Harrisburg, 1988
The Evening News — April 5, 1988. Still on the page, thirty-eight years in.
1968 · The Columbian · clipping
As printed in The Columbian, 1968
August 22, 1968 — they worry so about ya crossin’ the street.
1971 · The Columbian · clipping
The Columbian, 1971
April 15, 1971 — Vancouver’s paper, close to the later White Salmon years.
1990 · The Columbian · clipping
The Columbian, March 1990
March 14, 1990 — late period, still daily.
1990 · The Columbian · clipping
The Columbian, September 1990
September 7, 1990.
1954 · The Boston Globe · clipping
Boston Sunday Globe, Christmas 1954
December 19, 1954 — a Sunday page in the paper that carried them the longest.
1954 · The Boston Globe · clipping
Boston Globe, March 1954
March 5, 1954 — Friday in the Globe.
1978 · The Boston Globe · clipping
I enjoyed the movie you were in, God
The Boston Globe — Friday, May 26, 1978.
1979 · The Boston Globe · clipping
Boston Globe, May 1979
May 2, 1979 — still in the Globe, twenty-eight years on.
1954 · Daily News · clipping
As printed in the Daily News, 1954
March 16, 1954.
1966 · Courier-Post · clipping
66 percent wanted us back
Courier-Post, February 10, 1966 — a reader survey told the editors they wanted The Smith Family again.
1951 · Lancaster New Era · clipping
As printed in Lancaster, 1951
Lancaster New Era — September 26, 1951. Early syndication.
1968 · Lancaster New Era · clipping
Lancaster, 1968
Lancaster New Era — June 15, 1968.
1956 · sunday
Sunday third-page, 1956
A Sunday page from the mid-fifties run.
1962 · daily
There's the little butterball
A daily from the family files.
1961 · daily
Something to do with the new administration
I suppose it has something to do with the new administration.