THE SMITH FAMILY COMIC ARCHIVE PROJECT: This and That

Meet the Smith Family Comic Archive Project! We’re a 501(c)(3) public charity preserving and sharing the original art, magazine roughs, and syndicated strips of The Smith Family by cartoonists George and Virginia Smith (1950–1997). Join us in celebrating mid-century American cartoon art and humor.Through their work, we invite readers to find meaning in everyday life, compassion in our imperfections, and laughter in the shared experience of being human.Their grandson, Charley George Crerar, runs the website and archive as an act of love and remembrance, keeping their creative spirit alive for new readers.

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Thursday, November 12, 2026

The Windsor Star Mon, Sep 12, 1949 ·Page 32

Three This and That gag cartoons by George Smith from The Windsor Star in September 1949. On Monday, September 12, 1949, page 32, a little girl, hair still mussed from a fight, tells her father, "I beat the stuffins out of him." On Thursday, September 22, a couple shelters under a hot-dog vendor's umbrella in the wind and rain: "You drive a hard bargain, sir." In the third, a car is wrapped around a tree while the driver studies a map: "Oh, I've been here before."

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

"No smoking in the elevator, please!" from The Windsor Star, Nov 8, 1949, page 28.

A This and That gag by George Smith from The Windsor Star, November 8, 1949, page 28, shown as a close crop and on the newspaper page. A woman with a huge bundle, a donkey, and a chicken crowd into an elevator, and the operator says, "No smoking in the elevator, please!"