We’re giving the You Know Me, Al archive a refresh! We’ve filled the gaps in the beginning of the run: the first seven weeks of the strip are now complete in all their glory. Even better, we’ve refreshed the previously posted strips with better versions…it’s a whole new experience! And if that wasn’t enough, we also have the full first two weeks of Dick Dorgan’s run on the strip. Do yourself a favor and check out the adventures of everybody’s favorite busher, Jack Keefe, out all over again.
Remember as a kid when the comics page felt like a place all your own? Wouldn’t it have been so much more fun to have a preachy panel there to remind you to do things like wash your hands or brush your teeth? In verse no less? Thankfully children in the 1920’s had Kid-ology!
Albert Bloch’s Professor Wayupski ran just three weeks starting May 25, 1902 and we have ‘em all for you! He has to be one of the first comics characters to fly an airship, and maybe the first to fly to the moon? This panel is from a Sunday page dated June 1, 1902 which puts it a few months ahead of the release of Méliès’s Le Voyage dans la Lune. How can this be?? Historians weigh in here please. 
The Adventures of the Stranded Dime Museum Freaks promises a lot more than it actually delivers, but c’mon, that title is seriously hard to resist. This is the only comic we have found for creator Benjamin P. Elliott; the first name is really difficult to make out in the signature, but Stripper’s Guide says Benjamin and that is good enough for us. Elliott wisely chooses to cast “fun” sideshow archetypes in these adventures, and while they don’t have a great deal to do, Elliott does get some mileage out of the uniqueness of the characters. All in all, an amusing curiosity…
Coffee and Sinkers is one of those classic orphan & dog teams that put down stakes on the comics page, at least for a short time. Robert Carter gives us just two months of their shenanigans and it’s a shame as there seems to be plenty of life left in this feature when the curtains close. The story comes full circle as the series opens with the duo hanging around a barrel and finishes with them crawling back into one. At least they seem pleased with the turn of events…though I like to think they eventually find their forever home after these adventures end.
Enjoy their short but sweet adventures in their new home in the Comics Supplement! 
