The Smith Family Comic Strip: Any Instructions Mr. Smith?

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The Smith Family Comic Strip: The comic strip The Smith Family was created by my grandparent's George and Virginia Smith, American cartoonists whose collaboration produced one of the longest-running family humor strips of the 20th century. George J. Smith (born 1920, Brooklyn, New York studied art under the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and attended the Pratt Institute. Early in his career, he worked as a commercial artist and sold single-panel gags to magazines before shifting to syndicated comics. In 1950, he launched The Smith Family, initially distributed by the George Matthew Adams Service. Much of the comic’s content drew upon his own large family—George and Virginia raised eleven children ten girls and one boy. As the strip matured, George became increasingly introspective, using humor to critique overregulation, consumerism, and moral decay in American society. He described his goal not as escapism but as an attempt to “reach through routine and say something human”. Beyond his comic work, Smith gave lectures about visual storytelling and often emphasized art as a tool for social reflection. Virginia Smith served as Editor Co Writer.

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" "LAYOUT
" and "OH NO
" and "PLANNING AHEAD."
"¡LA CENA ESTA LISTA!" "LA FAMILIA SMITH" 1953 The Boston Globe
"DOCTOR QUINLAN GAVE ME A THOROUGH PHYSICAL BUT SAID HE COULDN'T BE SURE WHAT CAUSED MY ABSENT-MINDEDNESS.".
"DON'T WORRY
"EEK! I SHOULDN'T HAVE READ IT ALOUD".
"He's been telling people we keep him chained to the bedpost again."
"HONEST NO!"
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! OH NO
"Now dear remember how you were when you were a boy and it was Halloween.".
"Smith Family" Missing for Week- For the benefit of "Smith Family" readers Mrs. Smith is not having her new baby this week. Maybe next week.
"Tish has a real flair for writing". The Shreveport Journal Shreveport
"Why Don't You Start It Spinning the Other Way?" Saturday Sept -7- 1946 Liberty Magazine
10-year-old Susie Smith asks her father George creator of the comic strip The Smith Family is that moppet is really supposed to be her
1941- cartoon by George Smith published in the THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
1946 -1947-1948 -Medical Economics Magazine cartoons by George Smith
1947 Saturday Evening Post Original Art Work and Published cartoon by George Smith
1948 - Original Atrwork by George Smith - Cartoon Sequence Published In The American Legion Magazine
1950 - All this and you expect apples too?
1950 Gags Mag
1950 True Magazine
1951
1951 Saturday Evening Post Cartoons by George Smith
1951.
1953 FATHERS DAY- THE SUNDAY BOSTON GLOBE
1954
1954 The Boston Globe
1955
1955 North Bay Nugget
1956
1957 - A SING MAGAZINE FAMILY PORTRAIT
1960
1960 - 1961 - Jersey City - New Jersey - Poor Pop - By George Smith
1960 Jersey Journal
1961 -The Saturday Evening Post Editors CARTOON COLLECTION HUMOR: Bad Company These folks put the "bore" in neighbor!
1961 Jersey Journal
1968
1971
1973 View From the Newsroom Smiths Are Back
1974-1975
1977 - I WLL FORCE MYSELF TO BE KIND.
1978 White Salmon WA
1983
55 Years George & Virginia of White Salmon WA
A Comics Perspective Carol Triffle brings her whimsical humor.
American Legion Magazine Cartoons 1988-1989 V&G Smith
An exhibition of rescued comic strip art
An old familiar friend
AND I GET STUCK IN THE CORNER FOR LYING!
AND MAY EVERY HEAVENLY GRACE AND COMFORT BE SHOWERED UPON YOU !
Approximately 7000 American soldiers marines sailors and airmen were killed in the New Guinea campaign.
April 07
April 1953 American Legion Cartoon by George Smith
April-1951 was the first month "The Smith Family" comic strip was published in The Boston Globe - Tue- Apr -03 -1951 ·Page 17
As a child she starred in her dad's syndicated strip Today she shares her humor on stage.
AS FAR AS I CAN MAKE OUT ... THE GOAL OF EDUCATION THAT IS TRANQUIL PASSAGE FROM THE MOUSE RACE TO THE RAT RACE ....
ASHLEY MONTAGLU SAYS AN ADULT IS A DETERIORATED CHILD. SO I GUESS GROWING UP MEANS... ....ROTTING
Bless You Each and every one !!
BRIAN TOOK CRIS LOLLYPOP AWAY FROM HIM MOM AND CRIS SPOKE HIS FIRST WORD!
By Mr. and Mrs. George Smith GINNY SIT UP STRAIGHT! LORRAINE USE YOUR FORK. TINA GET YOUR ELBOW OFF THE TABLE HMMMM IF WONDER IF HE'LL EVER GET THE HINT
California · Thursday
CAME ON TV THAT THE GUMMINT SPENDS THE AVERAGE AMERICANS INCOME EVERY SPLIT SECOND.
Canada
Charlie my 2 year old grandson
Cleveland Plain Dealer 1961
COLLIER'S Magazine 1951 "That's an all-season coat sir. In the warm weather you simply take it off..." by GEORGE SMITH
Collier's magazine issue from March 24
Come quick Dad the Baby 1956
Comic was unfair to Muslim women 1989
COWPERSONS AND RED AMERICANS
December - 1950 True Magazine - George Smith
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you .
DON'T WORRY HONEY! by George Smith Evening star Washington District of Columbia · Sunday
DRAMATICALLY CHANGES THE CHARACTER OF YOUR HAVING.
Drawing principles with George Smith
Easter 1954 THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
Editor's Note George Smith has been drawing the "Smith Family" for the Washington Star Syndicate for the past 30 years
Educated Nincompoop's
Ellen and Tina are eating Razors-Jackson Citizen Patriot Jackson -Michigan · Friday September- 07- 1951
ESQUIRE MAGAZINE 1950
Feb. 18
Flip Book
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth Texas
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PIONEERED THE ROUND HOUSE NO CORNERS.THE WHOLE CHILD-REARING SYSTEM WOULD GO DOWN THE PIPE.
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING MEN AN' WOMEN HAVE HAD NOTHING IN COMMON EXCEPT STUPIDITY. THEY WAS GIVEN BRAINS AN' ALL THEY COULD SEE WAS APPLES.
Gangway! The Smith Family is coming. You'll love this friendly bunch of varmints the moment you set eyes on them Monday In The Jersey Journal
Gee Annie I Thonght Evrerybody Got Something on Christmas !
George and Virginia Smith graced the pages of The Boston Globe for 44 years. It began in 1951 and continued to bring joy and laughter until 1995
George J. Smith was born on Feb. 5 1920 in an ambulance on the way to the Cumberland Street hospital in Brooklyn NY.
GEORGE SMITH Seen above contemplating a dive from the Brooklyn Bridge at midnight is one of the boy wonders of cartoondom.
George Smith's knack for portraying the everyday incidents about the home is wonderful. showing daily through this talented pen. More power to him and to you for bringing it to us.
GEORGIE DID SOME PAINTING WITH THE OIL PAINTING OUTFIT YOU GAVE HIM FOR HIS BIRTHDAY DAD. HE PAINTED LAURA WAGGONER.
GIRLS- GIRLS!!! YOU MUST NEVER LEAD WITH YOUR RIGHT-AND KEEP YOUR LEFT UP! MOVE AROUND WEAVE..
Good news folks THE SMITH FAMILY returns to the Comic Page Monday Look for them.
GRACIOUS SUZY HOW DID YOU EVER GET SUCH A MESSY FACE ?? THERE! ALL CLEAN! OH YOU ARE SUCH AN ANGEL!
Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn
Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn
Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn- New York · Friday- February 24- 1956
Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn- New York · Friday- July 27- 1956
GUY ON TV SAID FROM THE LOOKS OF IT. EVOLUTION HAS GONE INTO REVERSE... AND WERE ALL HEADIN BACK TO THE SLIME.
Happy Daddy's Day! The Boston Sunday Globe June-21-1953
Happy Father's Day
Here come the Smiths !
Here Come The Smiths!
Hey! SUZY just said Georgie!!
HONEY!" by George Smith
how come I gotta bring out the garbage all the time?"
HOW DO Y0U FIGURE SUZY
How It Began
I AM A SURVIVOR OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP - I SAW GAS CHAMBERS BUILT BY LEARNED ENGINEERS- CHILDREN POISONED
I ENJOYED THE MOVIE YOU WERE IN GOD. The Boston Globe -Friday -May- 26- 1978
I remember sitting on Grandpa's lap asking him the same question?
I WANT A SECOND OPINION!! By Mr. and Mrs. George Smith
I'm Just Totally Depressed Babs
I'm Tom Quinlan
if subjugation and exploitation of the weak is savagery
IF THE BIG BOOM DON'T GET US..... THE POLLUTED EVERYTHING WILL. SO BEFORE YOUR OFF TO MEET YOUR MAKER...
IF YOU WOULD BECOME INVISIBLE BECOME POOR.
In art the most important thing is "COMPOSITION
In childhood we are blissfully ignorant of the wretched state of the world This is why teenagers tend to hate the world: they see the world as it really is for the first time.
IT COULDN'T BE! NO!".
IT HAS TO HAVE BEEN WOMANS INTUITION.
IT OCCURED TO ME THIS AM- THAT THE ADVENT OF THE BOMB ENDED THE IDEA OF DEFENDING SOVEREIGNTY. WE'RE ONE RACE NOW LIKE IT OR NOT.
IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE SO MANY SISTERS
ITS FROM THE GOVERNMENT. TIMES ARE REALLY TOUGH. POSTAGE DUE.
January 02
January 04
Jul 27
July 17
Laff-a-Day is a daily gag cartoon panel that was distributed to newspapers by King Features Syndicate from 1936 to 1998.
Laugh- Love -Liberty- 4th of July with the Smiths 1952-1959 The Boston Globe.
Los Angeles Mirror Los Angeles
Louisiana · Saturday
Love
Love George
LOVE ON COMICS Why 'Smith Family' Seems So Real
LUCKY EIGHTH
MANS DEATH DEMINISHES ME BECAUSE I AM INVOLVED IN MANKIND." OR IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM OR: MY NOT HAVING
March 05 1950
MOM CAROL RAN OUT WITH NOTHING ON- WELL CATCH HER QUICK I CANT LEAVE DOLORES!
Mom says I need a Spanking Dad.
Mom Tina is going to jump
MOM TISH IS TOUCHING ME WITH A WORM! WORMS ARE GOOD THEY LIKE YOU! THEY FIX THE SOIL FOR YOU SO THINGS WILL GROW
MOTHER EARTH! THE SACRED DISPLAY OF CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS!!
MR. QUINLANS WINDOW JUST FELL APART. IF YOU SPANK YOUR KID. YOUR HAND WILL ROT OFF.
Mt. Angel Welcomes Cartoonist Family 1967
MY SISTER TELLS ME You SAID A NASTY WORD TO HER- YOU SAID "SHALOM" THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER June 6 1971
New Jersey · Sunday
New national emblem
New York
New York • Fri
NO
North Bay Nugget North Bay Ontario Canada · Friday December 24 1954
November 05
Now DEvolution is another matter
NOW I LAYS ME DOWN TO THLEEP I PRAY THE LORD MY SOUL TO KREEP.... IF I SCHLOOD DIE BEFLOOR I LAKE I PRAY THE LORD MY SOUL TO SHAKE.
Oakland Tribune 08 Oct 1951 Mon ·Page 44
Oakland Tribune 1951-1952
OFFENSIVE A letter from the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada 1971
OH BOY SNOW !
Ohio ·
Ontario
Original and published artwork bv George Smith
Original 1940s 1950s Artwork by George Smith
Our institutions including our schools are self-perpetuating misconceptions plotted by their own victims Forcing a false social identity upon us all that maintains an utterly toxic civilization.
OUR PREFERENCES IN TV RUN SO MUCH TO THE EXALTATION OF CRIMINALITY... WE'RE SO FOND OF THE BRUTE AND THE BARBARIAN... IT'S A WONDER WE DON'T ELECT THEM TO PUBLIC OFFICE.
Pennsylvania · Sunday
Pity the money Grubbers
PLEASE PASS ME MEAT BALL TISH. Sunday Globe - June -25- 1953
Private G Smith - Mr Smith says that he had enough of that in the Army- YOO HOO! Army and Navy Fun 1945
Quinlan Upholstering Company.. Los Angeles Evening Mirror News 1960
Ring Ring
Saturday Evening Post honors the men and women of the U.S. military who gave their lives on the world's battlefields.
SAVE ME FROM NARCISSISM AND REACTIVE HOSTILITY. ALLOW ME TO BE FREE IN A SIMPLE CALLING AND DECENTLY POOR WITHOUT DISRUPTIVE TRAGIC DRUDGERY.
SHE DON'T REALIZE HER LITTLE SUZY. HUH! AS IF I WASN'T SIX YEARS OLD.!!
Smile it's good for your Health
SMILE'S LIFT THE SPIRIT WARM THE HEART AND EDIFY. NOTHING DISARMS LIKE A SMILE.
SMILES LIFT THE SPIRIT - WARM THE HEART And EDIFY.
SMITH FAMILY 1953
Smith served as chief artist for the 58th Signal Battalion in the Pacific in 1942.
SMITH'S are back and here's why.
So what'll we Play ? LOVE LOVE YOUR ALIVED?
SPIN THREE TIMES WIGGLE YOUR RIGHT BIG TOE
Staten Island Advance Staten Island New York April 1971
STOP CALLING ME FISH! MY NAME IS TISH! Austin Statesman Austin-Texas - 1960
Suggested Design For New National Emblem.
Sunday News Lancaster
TELL US A STORY DAD.OK MOM SAYS SHE IS 25.- TISH IS PLAYING IN THE MUD AGAIN.- HERE COMES CRANKY OL MRS. MEANY
THANKS TISH - NO MR. STEIN GEORGE DECIDED AGAINST THE 89.50. The Boston Globe 1957
The Austin Statemen
THE BABY'S HEAD! LOOK AT THE BABY'S HEAD! WHAT ABOUT THE BABY'S HEAD! !
The Boston Globe - Friday -November 1 -1951
The Boston Sunday Globe COMICS
The Central New Jersey Home News New Brunswick -New Jersey · Saturday 1955
The Columbia Record South Carolina 1953
The Columbian Vancouver Washington · Wednesday February 07 1979 HERE'S YOUR BIRTHDAY PRESENT DAD!
The Columbian Vancouver Washington ·1967
The Columbus Ledger Columbus -Georgia · 1976
The comic strip titled simply the Smith family. This is very obviously a real family no fix soap opera scenes No fake cries just Stark realism daily and Sunday
The Fallbrook California Enterprise Newspaper in 1960 as my Grandparents and eleven children drove from New York To Live in Fallbrook California
THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM CONTAINS LANGUAGE AND MATERIAL THAT MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE TO SOME VIEWERS.
The Louisville Times - The Courier-Journal 1967
The means to sanctification.
THE MIAMI HERALD Sun.
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum - THE SMITH FAMILY CARTOONS -
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
The Philadelphia Daily News
The Philadelphia Inquirer 07 Oct 1973 Sun Page 460
The Plain Dealer Cleveland
The Plain Dealer Cleveland Ohio · Sunday April 01 1956
The Radiance of LOVE
THE REASON THERE IS SO MUCH CRIME ON TV. IS BECAUSE THE VIEWERS LIKE CRIME! SHOOT OUTS. THATS PROBABLY THE WAY WE ARE.
The Saturday Evening Post Cartoons By George Smith
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MARCH 18 1961 (DEAN ACHESON'S INTIMATE RECOLLECTIONS.
The Saturday Evening Post Original Artwork by George Smith 1950
The Star-Ledger Newark
The Suffocating Death Grip of Technocracy
The top 25 cartoonists in sales for 1950 were
These whimsical characters drawn by nationally syndicated cartoonist George Smith of White Salmon WA
They're Coming to Your House!
THIS and THAT
THIS GUY SAYS MID-LIFE CRISIS IS BROUGHT ON BY LACK OF DIVERSITY DULL SPECIALIZATION ROUTINE PARCHED RUT MEANINGLESSNESS SPIRITUAL ARIDITY HUM-DRLMNESS TRIVIAL PURSUITS....
THis WEEK Magazine 1949
Those Teeming Smith's
Tina got a Dime for a Toot that fell out? Staten Island Advance Staten Island- New York · Thursday- November 18- 1954
Tina just learned how to use the phone Mom. Tri-City Herald Pasco Washington · Thursday June 10 1954
TISH IS PLAYING IN THE MUD AGAIN! The Boston Globe -Wed- May- 20 -1953 ·Page 31
Tri-City Herald Pasco
Tri-City Herald Pasco Washington Tuesday January 05 1954
True Magazine 1948
True Magazine 1952
True Magazine Cartoons
True THE MAN'S MAGAZINE 1946
Warmly Indorsed by The Globe Sisters in 1955
Washington · Monday
We need all the creativity we can get -Superabundance of Destructiveness WE Have !!
WE ONLY THINK WE LOVE WHEN WE LOVE THE LOVABLE BUT WE ONLY TITILLATE OURSELVES GENUINE LOVE WITH ALL ITS ASPECTS HAS THE QUALITY OF IN SPITE OF NOT BECAUSE OF.
WELL YOU'RE ALWAYS SAYING OUR SOCIETY IS SICK. RIGHT ?
WHAT IS THE REASON FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WARHEADS AIMED AT MAJOR CITIES? WHY IS THE WORLD READY TO BLOW ITSELF UP YOU ASK?
WHATS ANOTHER WORD FOR BEAUTIFUL DAD?
WHEN I SAID MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE BEAST
Where I was born was in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Where's Tish ? Sailing her ship in the tub Tell her lunch is ready she's not there anymore she went down with the ship.
WHO EVER MAKES THE UGLIEST FACE WING MY TEDDY BEAR -Tri-City Herald Pasco- Washington · Monday- February 28-1955
WHY IS MRS. QUINN A NAZI OR A KKK ?
WHY IS THE WORLD SUCH A BOTCH GRANDPA? TERMINAL IGNORANCE- TRAGIC MISDIRECTION OF ENERGY. MORONIC PREFERENCE FOR BOOM BOOM"
With minimal brush strokes her father the artist George Smith captured the adventures of his family of 11 children.
WOMAN ON TV ASKED IF EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS HOW COME MOTHERS ONLY HAVE TWO HANDS
Women whose telephone woke the baby
Words People Use Text Book
WOW ALL DAY LONG POLITICIANS PRATTLING !!
Writer's Digest 1960-09: Vol 40 Issu 9
You know that in a recent Courier-Post survey 66% of their readers told the editors they wanted to see us again. so let's hurry Good news folks THE SMITH FAMILY returns
YOU PALEFACES DESTROYED OUR REALLY PRICELESS TREASURE... THE HOWS GROWN OUT OF COUNTLESS YEARS OF OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT.
You say he Bit Charlie Again?
YOUNG PARENTS JUST CANT HIT ALL THE BASES.
Your writing is awful lately Lorraine. The Smith Family" by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Smith.

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