Thatababy by Paul Trap for March 19, 2024

Now, they are true comic connoisseurs.

It must have been TatP that once so impressed me with its use of black and white. Three panels, one with the shadows of bamboo blinds streaking the floor, another panel of the big black polka-dots on a woman’s tight white dress, and a third I sadly do not remember. But I do remember that it impressed me as genuine art.

Looks like a great club!

Terry and the Pirates was a favorite of mine when I was a kid.

The corollary is that Paul Trap likes the thought of referring to himself as a male stripper.

I preferred Walt Kelly’s artwork.

I always thought a strip club is a place where they take the finish off of furniture.

Actually, the guys are mooning over that brunette in “Liberty Meadows”. :)

Those comics are what started me on the path to this website. We lived in a small town, but we had a print shop that sold newspapers from all over the country. Every Tuesday my mother would buy the Chicago Daily American from the Sunday before. There was a huge comic section. I would lie on the floor and read all of them. Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon, Prince Valiant, Dondi. I’d go to this club!

Our local paper didn’t do Sundays. We got the Des Moines paper that did. The local had a full page of the weekday comics which I loved. I used to read the comics in the Omaha paper until I could read them all on line. I don’t even know if the sickly, thin paper the Omaha paper has become has comics.

I had to wait till we went to my grandfather’s house each month to see the comics. The Little King, Katzenjammer Kids, Smoky Stover. I think this may have been what got me to read when I was four. Didn’t necessarily understand what I was reading though, some strange stuff in those old strips.

Thought the opposite