At the end of my Valentines Day post a couple Saturdays ago, I included the February 14, 1924 installment of Frank King's "Gasoline Alley." I'm not aware of any newspapers, including its parent paper, the Chicago Tribune, that run "Gasoline Alley" in print, but I remarked that it's still available on line at GoComics.com.
In the weeks since then, its current cartoonist, Jim Scancarelli, has been teasing some Big News in the strip. The characters have been excitedly asking each other whether they have heard the news, and every one of them seems fairly upset about it. The dramatic tone led many readers in the comments section to wonder if Scancarelli were planning to bring the 106-year-old cartoon — described by Pierre Couperie and Maurice Horn as "the first Bildungsroman in pictures" — to an end.
Today's installment reveals that the Alley's fate is probably not quite as dire as that:
"The Rectangle"?
"Das Bildungsroman in Pictures"?
"Electric Plug-in Court"?
UH oh!
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