Please remember that Alley Oop, Prince Valiant and others still stride across the comic pages. Papers are reprising Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes.

As for other comics -- "Our Boarding House with Major Hoople" appeared every Sunday in our local paper, as did "Bringing Up Father" (with Jiggs and Maggie). There was also "Gasoline Alley" (still running), "The Teenies", and "Smokey Stover."

Let's not forget "Terry and the Pirates" either.