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Showing posts with label Prattville Progress. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Prattville Progress, 1980s

Late-era strips as they ran in The Prattville Progress (Alabama) on June 27, 1987, and September 11, 1990. George Smith read the theologian Paul Tillich closely, and Tillich's ideas show up in the strip's dialogue more often than readers of the funny pages might expect.
The Smith Family strip as it ran in The Prattville Progress, September 11, 1990



The Smith Family strip: a boy tells a girl you can never pay your debt to doctors, then thinks they should never have been given the vote



The Smith Family strip: a boy tells Babs half the world suffers from parasitic infestation because they go barefoot



The Smith Family strip: a girl repeats a TV commentator's rant about humanity's evolutionary boners



The Smith Family strip as it ran in The Prattville Progress, June 27, 1987, with the kids quoting Rev. Tillich to Mom

 

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

1980s The Boston Globe strips 1980–1989, Prattville Progress, Columbian 1980s



 

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