Written By George & Virginia Smith


He sold his first cartoons as a teenager for two dollars apiece to the Harvard Lampoon and worked his way up until his cartoons appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. During the war he stayed in the art














 

George & Virginia Smith
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A SIGN FAMILY PORTRAIT THOSE TEEMING SMITHS In their work, some men follow farmers's hours. Others keep bankers' hours. But George Smith, creator of a comic strip called "The Smith Family" that now appears in some sixty newspapers across the country, keeps school hours. With nine children overflowing the house and another on the way. It's the only way Smith can get anything done. "When they go off to school," he says, "I go to work." Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their lively brood live in a five-bedroom house in Camphell Hall, near Goshen. New York. "We used to live in the city." Mrs. Smith explaint, "but as the family grew either the city had to go or we had to go. So we moved to Gothen." Asked how he gets ideas for his strip. Mr. Smith says. "Oh, that's easy. I just listen to the children's conversation. They're the gag men." The result is a comic strip that reflects with hilarious authenticity the real life of a large family, a family in which children are not unwanted strangers, but the main cast of characters. Photographs by Jacques Lowa Art by George Smith Artist George Smith roughs out a strip surrounded by six of his children. He says, "They're the gag men"