Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for October 05, 2014

How astute! A brief GA lesson based on an archaeological flashback.

It was Dick Moores’ series introducing Rover that first made this comic strip catch my eye.

Brilliant! Thank you, Jim Scancarelli!

Cool : )

This put my heart in my throat. I thought it was about to announce the retirement of the strip in 2014.

The phrase “from then on” seems to be a portent of the cancellation of the strip. I hope not.

If they were correct that the document they found was written in 2014, that statement “from then on” would be correct but would not indicate the soon demise of the strip.

Cursive may stop being taught and this strip is prophetic

Long live Gasoline Alley!

Yeah, I couldn’t help noticing that “from then on,” as well. But then, there’s that “brilliant artist” thing, so it’s probably best to ignore any prophesy. Hey, you s’pose Walt is still alive in 3514?

If the syndicate chooses to end the strip, either 2018 or 2021 would be good dates to choose—2018 for the strip’s centennial, or 2021 for Skeezix’s 100th birthday.

DON’T end this strip.

Seems that J.S. is determined not to rejuvenate the strip by finding a talented storyteller to take over.

“Brilliant” would indicate an artist that could reflect age (GA characters in their 60’s appear to be in their 30’s, 90’s in their 40’s, etc.)

Atom-luce torch?

I was astonished to learn that many schools no longer teach cursive. What’s next, arithmetic because everyone’s smart phone has a calculator?

Folks, our briliant Jim has only scratched the very surface of this iceberg. I am a middle school teacher, 8th grade. The problem is much worse. Many students don’t even know how to PRINT properly. Or even hold a pencil. They aren’t taught, they just try to copy what they’ve seen adults do. There is a right and a wrong way even to printing. And our kids don’t know the difference.

Didn’t always have access to the strip when I was a kid. (No internet, only newspapers), but have enjoyed it for many years again, and it still seems true to form (as I remember). With a lot of really good comics that have come and gone (Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, etc) it is good to see one that still hangs on.

Why newspaper owners chose the comic strips to be shrunken is beyond me. Many strips have suffered and have disappeared. A comic had it’s own 12 panel page. Now it’s half a page with six panels .The art is scrunched with the text over crowding any background work.

A friend of mine with middle school children use cursive writing when they want to keep secrets from their kids. Sad, really.

What kills me is that the very _concept _ of a library seems to be an alien concept! You can’t tell me that there won’t be some form of archival information institution for such a supposedly advanced civilization!

When I think about it, it seems that the only time I write in cursive anymore is when I’m signing checks… and I don’t even do that much nowadays, with online bill payments. As for handwriting, perhaps some romantic movement will raise calligraphy to a high art, I don’t know.

Pfft… the mystery is easy enough to solve, they should just go ask Uncle Walt. Who will STILL be alive in 3514!

I have been reading Gasoline Alley since the early 1960s.

Didn’t Dick Moores start a decade earlier (in 1959)?