"Glory Days" That Passed Us By

Here a lengthy piece on the heyday of newspaper comics at Mediaite, with several samples reproduced, going back a century to Mutt & Jeff and before. Excerpt:

This is by no means a comprehensive, academic study – just a taste of what was created in the first half of the 20th Century, before you were likely to have been paying attention.

Kids today can grab a laptop and get online for entertainment (if they even do anything else). But there is something remarkable about having an entire sheet of cartoons delivered to your house every day of your childhood – something that a majority of kids born this decade will probably never experience.

So print these out and give them to some kid, will you?