Growing up I loved the newspaper comic strips. My parents subscribed to two newspapers – The Tulsa World which ran every morning and the Claremore Progress which ran every afternoon. The Tulsa World had the better comics selection and more of them. The Claremore paper mostly overlapped with the Tulsa comics but there were a few that Tulsa didn’t have and I cherished them.

My siblings and I often fought over who got to read the comics section first, especially on Sundays when there were even more of them and they were in color.

I read all of the funny ones (even the ones I didn’t actually find that funny) but always skipped the dramatic comics. My favorites were Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side. My mother would buy us a copy of their annual books every Valentine’s Day.

Skippy was no longer around when I was growing up but I suspect I would have loved it. I love it now, as you can see from reading my review of this collection.