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Carol Triffle brings her family's whimsical humor to her theatrical production of "FROGZ!"
Valentine's Day — A Smith Family Love Story
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Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn- New York · Friday- February 24- 1956
Girls & Football — A Smith Family Strip
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George and Virginia Smith's creative vision continues to speak, teach, inspire, and connect across generations.

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1955 (4)
1954 (3)
"Now dear remember how you were when you were a boy and it was Halloween.". (2)
"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. (2)
"Tish has a real flair for writing". The Shreveport Journal Shreveport (2)
1947 Saturday Evening Post Original Art Work and Published cartoon by George Smith (2)
1950 - All this and you expect apples too? (2)
1950 True Magazine (2)
1951 Saturday Evening Post Cartoons by George Smith (2)
1956 (2)
1960 (2)
1960 - 1961 - Jersey City - New Jersey - Poor Pop - By George Smith (2)
1960s Strips from the 1960s (2)
1961 -The Saturday Evening Post Editors CARTOON COLLECTION HUMOR: Bad Company These folks put the "bore" in neighbor! (2)
A Comics Perspective Carol Triffle brings her whimsical humor. (2)
AND I GET STUCK IN THE CORNER FOR LYING! (2)
AS FAR AS I CAN MAKE OUT ... THE GOAL OF EDUCATION THAT IS TRANQUIL PASSAGE FROM THE MOUSE RACE TO THE RAT RACE .... (2)
ASHLEY MONTAGLU SAYS AN ADULT IS A DETERIORATED CHILD. SO I GUESS GROWING UP MEANS... ....ROTTING (2)
American Legion Magazine Cartoons 1988-1989 V&G Smith (2)
April 07 (2)
BRIAN TOOK CRIS LOLLYPOP AWAY FROM HIM MOM AND CRIS SPOKE HIS FIRST WORD! (2)
Behind the Scenes (2)
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 (2)
CAME ON TV THAT THE GUMMINT SPENDS THE AVERAGE AMERICANS INCOME EVERY SPLIT SECOND. (2)
COWPERSONS AND RED AMERICANS (2)
California · Thursday (2)
DON'T WORRY HONEY! by George Smith Evening star Washington District of Columbia · Sunday (2)
DRAMATICALLY CHANGES THE CHARACTER OF YOUR HAVING. (2)
December - 1950 True Magazine - George Smith (2)
Drawing principles with George Smith (2)
ESQUIRE MAGAZINE 1950 (2)
Ellen and Tina are eating Razors-Jackson Citizen Patriot Jackson -Michigan · Friday September- 07- 1951 (2)
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PIONEERED THE ROUND HOUSE NO CORNERS.THE WHOLE CHILD-REARING SYSTEM WOULD GO DOWN THE PIPE. (2)
Family & Daily Life (2)
Flip Book (2)
GEORGE SMITH Seen above contemplating a dive from the Brooklyn Bridge at midnight is one of the boy wonders of cartoondom. (2)
GEORGIE DID SOME PAINTING WITH THE OIL PAINTING OUTFIT YOU GAVE HIM FOR HIS BIRTHDAY DAD. HE PAINTED LAURA WAGGONER. (2)
GIRLS- GIRLS!!! YOU MUST NEVER LEAD WITH YOUR RIGHT-AND KEEP YOUR LEFT UP! MOVE AROUND WEAVE.. (2)
GUY ON TV SAID FROM THE LOOKS OF IT. EVOLUTION HAS GONE INTO REVERSE... AND WERE ALL HEADIN BACK TO THE SLIME. (2)
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 (2)
George J. Smith was born on Feb. 5 1920 in an ambulance on the way to the Cumberland Street hospital in Brooklyn NY. (2)
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. (2)
Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn (2)
Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn- New York · Friday- February 24- 1956 (2)
Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn- New York · Friday- July 27- 1956 (2)
Happy Daddy's Day! The Boston Sunday Globe June-21-1953 (2)
Here come the Smiths ! (2)
Hey! SUZY just said Georgie!! (2)
Humor & Gags (2)
I ENJOYED THE MOVIE YOU WERE IN GOD. The Boston Globe -Friday -May- 26- 1978 (2)
I WANT A SECOND OPINION!! By Mr. and Mrs. George Smith (2)
I remember sitting on Grandpa's lap asking him the same question? (2)
I'm Just Totally Depressed Babs (2)
IF THE BIG BOOM DON'T GET US..... THE POLLUTED EVERYTHING WILL. SO BEFORE YOUR OFF TO MEET YOUR MAKER... (2)
IF YOU WOULD BECOME INVISIBLE BECOME POOR. (2)
IT HAS TO HAVE BEEN WOMANS INTUITION. (2)
ITS FROM THE GOVERNMENT. TIMES ARE REALLY TOUGH. POSTAGE DUE. (2)
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. (2)
January 02 (2)
January 04 (2)
LUCKY EIGHTH (2)
Laff-a-Day is a daily gag cartoon panel that was distributed to newspapers by King Features Syndicate from 1936 to 1998. (2)
Laugh- Love -Liberty- 4th of July with the Smiths 1952-1959 The Boston Globe. (2)
Los Angeles Mirror Los Angeles (2)
Louisiana · Saturday (2)
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 (2)
MOM CAROL RAN OUT WITH NOTHING ON- WELL CATCH HER QUICK I CANT LEAVE DOLORES! (2)
MOM TISH IS TOUCHING ME WITH A WORM! WORMS ARE GOOD THEY LIKE YOU! THEY FIX THE SOIL FOR YOU SO THINGS WILL GROW (2)
MOTHER EARTH! THE SACRED DISPLAY OF CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS!! (2)
MR. QUINLANS WINDOW JUST FELL APART. IF YOU SPANK YOUR KID. YOUR HAND WILL ROT OFF. (2)
March 05 1950 (2)
Mom Tina is going to jump (2)
Mom says I need a Spanking Dad. (2)
Mt. Angel Welcomes Cartoonist Family 1967 (2)
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. (2)
New Jersey · Sunday (2)
New York (2)
New national emblem (2)
November 05 (2)
Now DEvolution is another matter (2)
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. (2)
Ohio · (2)
Original and published artwork bv George Smith (2)
PLEASE PASS ME MEAT BALL TISH. Sunday Globe - June -25- 1953 (2)
Pennsylvania · Sunday (2)
Press Coverage (2)
Related Art (2)
SAVE ME FROM NARCISSISM AND REACTIVE HOSTILITY. ALLOW ME TO BE FREE IN A SIMPLE CALLING AND DECENTLY POOR WITHOUT DISRUPTIVE TRAGIC DRUDGERY. (2)
SMILE'S LIFT THE SPIRIT WARM THE HEART AND EDIFY. NOTHING DISARMS LIKE A SMILE. (2)
SMITH'S are back and here's why. (2)
STOP CALLING ME FISH! MY NAME IS TISH! Austin Statesman Austin-Texas - 1960 (2)
Smith served as chief artist for the 58th Signal Battalion in the Pacific in 1942. (2)
So what'll we Play ? LOVE LOVE YOUR ALIVED? (2)
Staten Island Advance Staten Island New York April 1971 (2)
Suggested Design For New National Emblem. (2)
TELL US A STORY DAD.OK MOM SAYS SHE IS 25.- TISH IS PLAYING IN THE MUD AGAIN.- HERE COMES CRANKY OL MRS. MEANY (2)
THANKS TISH - NO MR. STEIN GEORGE DECIDED AGAINST THE 89.50. The Boston Globe 1957 (2)
THE BABY'S HEAD! LOOK AT THE BABY'S HEAD! WHAT ABOUT THE BABY'S HEAD! ! (2)
THE REASON THERE IS SO MUCH CRIME ON TV. IS BECAUSE THE VIEWERS LIKE CRIME! SHOOT OUTS. THATS PROBABLY THE WAY WE ARE. (2)
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MARCH 18 1961 (DEAN ACHESON'S INTIMATE RECOLLECTIONS. (2)
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.... (2)
TISH IS PLAYING IN THE MUD AGAIN! The Boston Globe -Wed- May- 20 -1953 ·Page 31 (2)
The Columbian Vancouver Washington · Wednesday February 07 1979 HERE'S YOUR BIRTHDAY PRESENT DAD! (2)
The Columbian Vancouver Washington ·1967 (2)
The Columbus Ledger Columbus -Georgia · 1976 (2)
The Fallbrook California Enterprise Newspaper in 1960 as my Grandparents and eleven children drove from New York To Live in Fallbrook California (2)
The Philadelphia Daily News (2)
The Plain Dealer Cleveland (2)
The Plain Dealer Cleveland Ohio · Sunday April 01 1956 (2)
The Radiance of LOVE (2)
The Saturday Evening Post Cartoons By George Smith (2)
The Star-Ledger Newark (2)
The means to sanctification. (2)
These whimsical characters drawn by nationally syndicated cartoonist George Smith of White Salmon WA (2)
They're Coming to Your House! (2)
Those Teeming Smith's (2)
Tina got a Dime for a Toot that fell out? Staten Island Advance Staten Island- New York · Thursday- November 18- 1954 (2)
Tina just learned how to use the phone Mom. Tri-City Herald Pasco Washington · Thursday June 10 1954 (2)
Tri-City Herald Pasco (2)
True Magazine 1948 (2)
True THE MAN'S MAGAZINE 1946 (2)
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. (2)
WELL YOU'RE ALWAYS SAYING OUR SOCIETY IS SICK. RIGHT ? (2)
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? (2)
WHEN I SAID MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE BEAST (2)
WHO EVER MAKES THE UGLIEST FACE WING MY TEDDY BEAR -Tri-City Herald Pasco- Washington · Monday- February 28-1955 (2)
WHY IS MRS. QUINN A NAZI OR A KKK ? (2)
WOMAN ON TV ASKED IF EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS HOW COME MOTHERS ONLY HAVE TWO HANDS (2)
WOW ALL DAY LONG POLITICIANS PRATTLING !! (2)
Washington · Monday (2)
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. (2)
With minimal brush strokes her father the artist George Smith captured the adventures of his family of 11 children. (2)
Women whose telephone woke the baby (2)
YOU PALEFACES DESTROYED OUR REALLY PRICELESS TREASURE... THE HOWS GROWN OUT OF COUNTLESS YEARS OF OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT. (2)
YOUNG PARENTS JUST CANT HIT ALL THE BASES. (2)
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 (2)
Your writing is awful lately Lorraine. The Smith Family" by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Smith. (2)
how come I gotta bring out the garbage all the time?" (2)
if subjugation and exploitation of the weak is savagery (2)
" and "OH NO (1)
" and "PLANNING AHEAD." (1)
"DOCTOR QUINLAN GAVE ME A THOROUGH PHYSICAL BUT SAID HE COULDN'T BE SURE WHAT CAUSED MY ABSENT-MINDEDNESS.". (1)
"DON'T WORRY (1)
"EEK! I SHOULDN'T HAVE READ IT ALOUD". (1)
"HONEST NO!" (1)
"He's been telling people we keep him chained to the bedpost again." (1)
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! OH NO (1)
"Why Don't You Start It Spinning the Other Way?" Saturday Sept -7- 1946 Liberty Magazine (1)
"¡LA CENA ESTA LISTA!" "LA FAMILIA SMITH" 1953 The Boston Globe (1)
'1957 3rd page Sunday') (1)
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 (1)
1940s (1)
1940s Original Art (1)
1941- cartoon by George Smith published in the THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (1)
1946 -1947-1948 -Medical Economics Magazine cartoons by George Smith (1)
1948 - Original Atrwork by George Smith - Cartoon Sequence Published In The American Legion Magazine (1)
1950 Gags Mag (1)
1950s (1)
1950s Strips and magazine cartoons from the 1950s era (1)
1951 (1)
1951. (1)
1953 FATHERS DAY- THE SUNDAY BOSTON GLOBE (1)
1954 The Boston Globe (1)
1955 North Bay Nugget (1)
1957 - A SING MAGAZINE FAMILY PORTRAIT (1)
1960 Jersey Journal (1)
1961 Jersey Journal (1)
1968 (1)
1970s The Columbian strips 1970–1979 (1)
1971 (1)
1971 The Philadelphia inquirer full color Sunday Comics (1)
1972 — The Generation Gap (1)
1973 View From the Newsroom Smiths Are Back (1)
1974-1975 (1)
1977 - I WLL FORCE MYSELF TO BE KIND. (1)
1978 White Salmon WA (1)
1980s The Boston Globe strips 1980–1989 (1)
1983 (1)
55 Years George & Virginia of White Salmon WA (1)
AND MAY EVERY HEAVENLY GRACE AND COMFORT BE SHOWERED UPON YOU ! (1)
American Legion Magazine Jan-1949 (1)
An exhibition of rescued comic strip art (1)
An old familiar friend (1)
Approximately 7000 American soldiers marines sailors and airmen were killed in the New Guinea campaign. (1)
April 1953 American Legion Cartoon by George Smith (1)
April-1951 was the first month "The Smith Family" comic strip was published in The Boston Globe - Tue- Apr -03 -1951 ·Page 17 (1)
As a child she starred in her dad's syndicated strip Today she shares her humor on stage. (1)
Austin American-Statesman 1971 (1)
Biography (1)
Bless You Each and every one !! (1)
Blonde and Bubbly Lorraine Smith 17 (1)
COLLIER'S Magazine 1951 "That's an all-season coat sir. In the warm weather you simply take it off..." by GEORGE SMITH (1)
Canada (1)
Carol Triffle brings her family's whimsical humor to her theatrical production of "FROGZ!" Biography (1)
Charlie my 2 year old grandson (1)
Cleveland Plain Dealer 1961 (1)
Collier's magazine issue from March 24 (1)
Columbian 1980s (1)
Come quick Dad the Baby 1956 (1)
Comic was unfair to Muslim women 1989 (1)
Daily (1)
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you . (1)
Easter 1954 THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE (1)
Editor's Note George Smith has been drawing the "Smith Family" for the Washington Star Syndicate for the past 30 years (1)
Educated Nincompoop's (1)
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. (1)
Feb. 18 (1)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth Texas (1)
Full-color or larger-format Sunday strips (e.g. '1954 3rd page Sunday' (1)
GORGE SMITH Seen above contemplating a dive from the Brooklyn Bridge at midnight is one of the boy wonders of cartoondom. (1)
GRACIOUS SUZY HOW DID YOU EVER GET SUCH A MESSY FACE ?? THERE! ALL CLEAN! OH YOU ARE SUCH AN ANGEL! (1)
Gags (1)
Gee Annie I Thonght Evrerybody Got Something on Christmas ! (1)
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 (1)
Good news folks THE SMITH FAMILY returns to the Comic Page Monday Look for them. (1)
Greenpoint Weekly Star Brooklyn (1)
HONEY!" by George Smith (1)
HOW DO Y0U FIGURE SUZY (1)
Happy Father's Day (1)
Here Come The Smiths! (1)
How It Began (1)
I AM A SURVIVOR OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP - I SAW GAS CHAMBERS BUILT BY LEARNED ENGINEERS- CHILDREN POISONED (1)
I'm Tom Quinlan (1)
IT COULDN'T BE! NO!". (1)
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. (1)
IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE SO MANY SISTERS (1)
In art the most important thing is "COMPOSITION (1)
Is that all you have to say. 'Ed not on the rug!'? Courier-Post Camden New Jersey · Friday January 06 1961 (1)
Jul 27 (1)
July 17 (1)
LOVE ON COMICS Why 'Smith Family' Seems So Real (1)
Love (1)
Love George (1)
MR. AND MRS. GEORGE AND VIRGINIA... (1)
MY SISTER TELLS ME You SAID A NASTY WORD TO HER- YOU SAID "SHALOM" THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER June 6 1971 (1)
NO (1)
New York • Fri (1)
North Bay Nugget North Bay Ontario Canada · Friday December 24 1954 (1)
November 04 (1)
OFFENSIVE A letter from the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada 1971 (1)
OH BOY SNOW ! (1)
Oakland Tribune 08 Oct 1951 Mon ·Page 44 (1)
Oakland Tribune 1951-1952 (1)
Ontario (1)
Original 1940s 1950s Artwork by George Smith (1)
Original Art (1)
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. (1)
Philadelphia Inquirer (1)
Philadelphia Inquirer 1972 (1)
Pity the money Grubbers (1)
Prattville Progress (1)
Private G Smith - Mr Smith says that he had enough of that in the Army- YOO HOO! Army and Navy Fun 1945 (1)
Quinlan Upholstering Company.. Los Angeles Evening Mirror News 1960 (1)
Ring Ring (1)
SHE DON'T REALIZE HER LITTLE SUZY. HUH! AS IF I WASN'T SIX YEARS OLD.!! (1)
SMILES LIFT THE SPIRIT - WARM THE HEART And EDIFY. (1)
SMITH FAMILY 1953 (1)
SPIN THREE TIMES WIGGLE YOUR RIGHT BIG TOE (1)
Saturday Evening Post honors the men and women of the U.S. military who gave their lives on the world's battlefields. (1)
Single panels (1)
Smile it's good for your Health (1)
Social Satire (1)
Sunday News Lancaster (1)
Sunday News Lancaster (1)
THE BOY WONDER OF BROOKLYN A collection of gags from the early years by Cartoonist and my gramps George Smith. (1)
THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM CONTAINS LANGUAGE AND MATERIAL THAT MAY BE OBJECTIONABLE TO SOME VIEWERS. (1)
THE MIAMI HERALD Sun. (1)
THIS and THAT (1)
THis WEEK Magazine 1949 (1)
The Austin Statemen (1)
The Boston Globe - Friday -November 1 -1951 (1)
The Boston Sunday Globe COMICS (1)
The Central New Jersey Home News New Brunswick -New Jersey · Saturday 1955 (1)
The Columbia Record South Carolina 1953 (1)
The Columbian Vancouver Washington · (1)
The Louisville Times - The Courier-Journal 1967 (1)
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum - THE SMITH FAMILY CARTOONS - (1)
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (1)
The Philadelphia Inquirer 07 Oct 1973 Sun Page 460 (1)
The Plain Dealer Cleveland Ohio · Sunday-April- 01- 1956 (1)
The Saturday Evening Post Original Artwork by George Smith 1950 (1)
The Suffocating Death Grip of Technocracy (1)
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 (1)
The top 25 cartoonists in sales for 1950 were (1)
Tri-City Herald Pasco Washington Tuesday January 05 1954 (1)
True Magazine 1952 (1)
True Magazine Cartoons (1)
WHATS ANOTHER WORD FOR BEAUTIFUL DAD? (1)
WHY IS THE WORLD SUCH A BOTCH GRANDPA? TERMINAL IGNORANCE- TRAGIC MISDIRECTION OF ENERGY. MORONIC PREFERENCE FOR BOOM BOOM" (1)
Warmly Indorsed by The Globe Sisters in 1955 (1)
We need all the creativity we can get -Superabundance of Destructiveness WE Have !! (1)
Where I was born was in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. (1)
Words People Use Text Book (1)
Writer's Digest 1960-09: Vol 40 Issu 9 (1)
You say he Bit Charlie Again? (1)

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