"The Smith Family strips from 1953, the fourth year of national syndication. George and Virginia were raising a growing household of their own, and the strip's crowded, chaotic home life drew directly on it. In these strips.

The Smith Family, 1953 (part 2) My day off

 

The Columbia Record Columbia, South Carolina. "Suzanne is so sweet!" Suzanne, e.g., the baby of the family, who everyone adores until it's diaper time "The Smith Family as it ran in The Evening News on March 1, 1956, and in The Columbia Record on October 1–4, 1957. The four October strips ran on consecutive days, showing how the Smiths built a gag across a week.

 

1954

 

1954

 

By George Smith 1940s early 1950s

 

1954-1955

 

1954 'SMITH FAMILY' COMIC STRIP TO BEGIN SATURDAY CHAOS, confusion, love and fun. These are the qualities to be found among the characters in the new Journal comic strip-The Smith Family.

 

Launched in 1950, The Smith Family was a rare specimen in the world of syndicated comics: a "stark realism" that lived in real-time alongside its readers. The humor was born from the bustling, often chaotic reality of George and Virginia Smith as they raised eleven children—ten girls and one boy. This wasn't a curated fiction; it was a mirror. When readers followed the adventures of Tish, Suzy, Georgie, Laura, Tina, and Lorraine, they were witnessing the actual rhythms of the Smith home.

 

Sunday Third Page Comic Strips from 1956

 

1950s Strips and magazine cartoons from the 1950s era

 

1954 3rd page Sunday

 

1957 3rd page Sunday

1951

 

1950 True Magazine- Tough night ED? Your trying to light a sausage.

 

1951The Boston Globe

 

1954-55