" GRIN AND BEAR IT " , RIP .

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The newspaper comic strip " GRIN AND BEAR IT " , which started in the 1930s ran its last strip on May 3d , 2015 .
Anyone else notice this ? Follow the strip , at least at (actually , technically speaking , a panel not a comic " strip " ~ Hey , isn't it like an Aspie to- be so technical ~ As if I should apologize??) some time inn the past ?) some time in the past ?
I'd seen it as a kid , then , inrecent years , found it again through the Int7ernet ?
Let's see if anybody responds to this ...

I googled it. I remember Grin and Bear It from newspapers when I was younger, as well as many others. I haven't seen it in so many years. I wish I'd known it was still around, at least until this May 3rd anyway.

...I was in a hurry and mis-punctuated my starter ~ I guess you could get pass that/the meaning got across ! ! ! !! !! !! !!
You know , I think the strip , at times , would re-use the same drawing and just put a new caption upon it !

I never even heard of this strip until now. I thought it was about a cartoon bear! But I've never been into political cartoons, anyway. I want the comics to make me feel *less* depressed when I read them.

...Since its' official site took it down , where is it up now ?
Could you put up a link to wherever it is now ~ Please ?

Yeah....I used to like that strip.

I liked "The Far Side" a little more, though.

Very Aspie of those guys in the bar trying to pick up girls by talking the language of Equations!

...Where did you see it ? ~ Especially assuming that you grew up in either NYC proper or the 'burbs , where you still are now and where I grew up .
That leads into another question about comic strips which , MAYBE , you could answer (And I have been thinking of asking but...)...........

...OKay , here goeth .
Do you see the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS , in its paper version , ever much ?
I recall that , when I last read it , they had moved the older comic strips to a " Classic Comics " page that ran seperately from the more modern comic strips ~ Frankly , the old comic strips that tend to be liked by older people who write & call to complain when the strip they've been reading since Harry Truman was president got segregated , moved to " Classic Comics : page !
This was the case when I last saw a daily version of the NYDN on paper ~ in 1997 !
At that time the " Classic " (old fogey ) strips on that seperate page were DICK TRACY , ANNIE , BEETLE BAILEY and one/two?? more .
Making this complicated , this CC page ran , IIRC , in the middle of the regional want ads and news section , which would vary among different boroughs' editions of the NYDN ~ I'd see either the " original " , Manhattan , edition or the Bronx/Westchester County editions , with the want/regional sections varying , or course .
If you get it at home (huhhuhhuh ) I presume , of course , you'd get the Queens NYDN .
(The fact that I'm sure the NYDN's want ad section has vastly migrated to Craigslist , as with all other newspapers , --- does that complicate this question ?)
I have asked this before at comics-oriented sites , but a New Yorker there ~ from Queens ~ said there no such thing in the Daily News ~ Queens edition ~ his family got every day .
I think , howevs , that he might have mlisinterpreted my question as asking whether the NYDN ran a page of REPRINTED , rerun , old comic strips .
I didn't mean that , and thought that I made it clear then . I just meant that the News had moved the contemporary , as of the 1990s , versions of those strips to a " Classic Comics " page (So as to get them out of the view of younger people , obviously !) , printing the modern Dick Tracy , Annie , etc. strips there .
Also , BTW , does the News still run the Dick Tracy strip (which is still being produced , with new strips , if you did not know that) ? I had thought IIRC that they had dropped Dick (huhhuh...alright , alright ) sometime during the 00s but had kept Annie until it was discontinued as a new strip a few years back , but , when I) finally saw that " TRAITORS ! " News front page from recently I saw another story on the front page too involving a Dick Tracy illustration .
I can never find the News' front & back pages on their Web site anymore , BTW...Do you how to find them on the Web version ? I used to , occasionally , check their headlines on the Web...Wot' , they do'wanna be " an other pretty front page "(huh hu-Alright !) on the World Wide Web ? Haaah ?

Nope...the Daily News doesn't print "Dick Tracy" or "Annie" any more.

They still have "Blondie" and "Gasoline Alley," though.

"Gasoline Alley" goes back to about 1917. "Blondie" from at least the '30s, if not before.

...Do they have a " Classic Comics Page " for oldie-but-goldie/" old & in the way " strips now such as I described them having in the 90s , though ?
It'd likely have completely different strips now , I realize...(When it started in the 90s WINNIE WINKLE was one of them . After she winked away !...Beetle Bailey took her spot on the CCP , IIRC .) But do they still run such a page ?

Oh , and assuming you were in the 60s/70s in NYC/the metroplex , did you perhaps see Grin And Bear It in a rather peculiar Sunday newspaper tiled (among other names) THE NEW YORK COLUMN ?




uote="kraftiekortie"]Nope...the Daily News doesn't print "Dick Tracy" or "Annie" any mor

They still have "Blondie" and "Gasoline Alley," though.

"Gasoline Alley" goes back to about 1917. "Blondie" from at least the '30s, if not before.[/quote]

I wish they did....but they don't have a classic comics section.

[...Okay , thank you...I did mean a page where the present-day versions of the old strips were put on , I didn't mean reprints of those old strips' glory years , I meant the 90s versions of (I think the original line-up was) Winnie , Dick , Annie , and GASOLINE ALLEY .
I think that even (I think it was the same person) at even two very deep comics fans' boards , the now-gone (sigh )as new boards/what I posted on , anyway , Comic Buyers' Guide and The Comics Journal's boards , someone was confused by my using the News's terminology for their " Old fogies' strips comics here ! !! " approach .


quote="kraftiekortie"]I wish they did....but they don't have a classic comics section.[/quote]

...Okay , thank you...I did mean a page where the present-day versions of the old strips were put on , I didn't mean reprints of those old strips' glory years , I meant the 90s versions of (I think the original line-up was) Winnie , Dick , Annie , and GASOLINE ALLEY .
I think that even (I think it was the same person) at even two very deep comics fans' boards , the now-gone (sigh )as new boards/what I posted on , anyway , Comic Buyers' Guide and The Comics Journal's boards , someone was confused by my using the News's terminology for their " Old fogies' strips comics here ! !! " approach .


quote="kraftiekortie"]I wish they did....but they don't have a classic comics section.[/quote]

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