A nice big hardcover just came out, collecting the first three years of Dick Moores’ GA dailies. It starts at the beginning of 1964, with a story about Wicker & Wallet deciding to produce and market some dog-shaped lamps designed by Clovia and Slim. So Slim was in the picture for quite a while before he and Clovia married.It’s a remarkable volume, with story arcs involving branches of the family who are rarely seen these days—Judy and Gideon buy a house, try to expand Judy’s Donuts into a franchise operation, and have a baby. Adam and Eve have problems at school (Eve beats up a kid for picking on Adam!). Uriah Pert makes trouble for the Wallets. Wilmer Bobble runs for Mayor (against Gideon!). Corky and Hope try to finance an expansion of the diner. Chipper prepares for college. Rufus and Joel are there, too (and Rufus is genuinely ugly—Moores cleaned him up quite a bit over the next decade), but they’re more a part of the Wallet family stories than stars of their own arcs.
A nice big hardcover just came out, collecting the first three years of Dick Moores’ GA dailies. It starts at the beginning of 1964, with a story about Wicker & Wallet deciding to produce and market some dog-shaped lamps designed by Clovia and Slim. So Slim was in the picture for quite a while before he and Clovia married.It’s a remarkable volume, with story arcs involving branches of the family who are rarely seen these days—Judy and Gideon buy a house, try to expand Judy’s Donuts into a franchise operation, and have a baby. Adam and Eve have problems at school (Eve beats up a kid for picking on Adam!). Uriah Pert makes trouble for the Wallets. Wilmer Bobble runs for Mayor (against Gideon!). Corky and Hope try to finance an expansion of the diner. Chipper prepares for college. Rufus and Joel are there, too (and Rufus is genuinely ugly—Moores cleaned him up quite a bit over the next decade), but they’re more a part of the Wallet family stories than stars of their own arcs.