When I was a kid, the Boston Record-American had the comic strip. They also had the sports news and horse racing results. My uncles were sports nuts, so my grandparents subscribed.
At our house, we took the more serious Globe. Comics weren’t as good.
I loved her, my cousins were always into Dick Tracy. Straining the memory but I think both were in the Sunday Funnies (the only day comics were colorized)
Back in when there were journalists, not those who push a narrative which fits their political opinions like Circle back Jen, Morning Joe, Tapper, Don Lemon, etc.
This is so cool! Brenda Starr and Nancy Drew were my models growing up. I read Brenda's cartoon strip in the LA Times. I didn't know there were books too – I'll have to get hold of one. I did wind up becoming a journalist!
I can see it now, Starr & Street looking over a corpse, one looks to the other: "The man they sent to off us had six slugs in him. One lead, the rest were bourbon. Now he's like the drink in his hand, stiff." I mean, in more capable hands than I, it could be cool! Lol.
Dale Messick worked for my dad at a greeting card firm in New York before she created Brenda Starr. When I moved to Santa Rosa, CA, in 1985, I found that Dale was alive and living there. I went to see her. "Oh yeah," she said. "If I'd listened to your dad, I'd still be drawing greeting cards."
I went to a masquerade party as Brenda star when I was in college. I was a feature writer for the college newspaper and have the appropriate hair color. Put glitter in my hair. My boyfriend wore an ascot and a patch over one eye. Everyone got it.
Read the strip, remember just two things: 1) She shilled an imaginary Ivory Soap knockoff because she washed her hair in it. 2) When a character whined, “I’m just a fixture!” and Starr said “Aww, honey, no you’re not,” the girl replied, “See? You don’t even know my name! It’s Lucy Fixture!”
Brings to mind the Blondie song "Rip Her to Shreds" where Debbie Harry sings "She thinks she's Sunday comics/ She thinks she's Brenda Starr." How many Millennials or Gen Zers would get the reference I wonder?
Reminds me of my Nancy Drew books which I saved to read on Sunday nights before bed so I didn’t go thru too fast… then I discovered THE STAND by @stephenking.bsky.social and my control went out the window. Got caught reading it in my Eng. Comp class, too. And Chemistry. Such a good influence he is.
Wait a tic...The Shawshank Redemption was written by you Mr. King? I just found that out from another poster here...DAMN! One of the best all time go to Movies, ever!! 🫡
If you really cared you would end homelessness in ME and you would get together with all your mega wealthy friends and end homelessness in America. If you gaf about anything you will do this. It’s not complicated.
Crazy 😜 I just watched Shawshank redemption again last night it’s such a great story one of my all time favorites I love a lot of your books but that one is super special thank you for all your stories sir mad respect ✊🏻
I used to read the Brenda Starr comic strip in the NY Daily News every Sunday when I was a little girl. And I loved putting Silly Putty on the comic so I could stretch Brenda’s face 😁
Well, at least that's NOT campaigning to end the tobacco industry for public health, like government has been crushingly prone to lately.https://www.sott.net/article/234216-The-Scientific-Scandal-of-Antismoking
However, if you’re interested in imagining or creating a backstory for Jessica Rabbit’s grandmother (perhaps for fan fiction, art, or a creative project), you could invent a character based on the 1920s–30s aesthetic, with hints of the same glamour and mystery.
They are all on FB in a big group of classic children's fiction lovers. I left FB but I miss the group. I am a Nancy Drew/ Dinny Gordon/etc. girl from way back.
My next door neighbor who was born in 1903, gave me her old books, from the 30-‘s and 40’s when I was a teenager. Bonita Granville mysteries, Judy Bolton mysteries and Kay Tracey mysteries. I loved them and still have them!
My Mom gave me what was left of her Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton and Vicki Barr series from when she was a girl (1930s to 1940s). I still have my Cherry Ames books from the early 1960s. I just love those old books!
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At our house, we took the more serious Globe. Comics weren’t as good.
She thinks she's Brenda Starr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArUyNRmIU4M
(Tell Tabitha if we knew each other at eight years old, we'd have been besties reading Brenda Starr!)
https://youtu.be/Ck7kpyzO8SY?si=ClGrxQO9HWwy5Lgs
“Auto-generated headlines are for cowards.”
https://filthee.news
Yes. It was called Brenda Starr. 1989
Thank you for reviving my memory.
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Damn, I'm old.
Nothing like it.
Could have done worse with my life.
Where would Perry be without Della?
And how would Della ever get dinner?
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I loved her as a kid. She had her own comic strip.
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Every week we would cut out the strips and paste into a binder to have a continuous story line!
Thanks for the memories.
She did. I didn’t.
Trixie is awesome—plus horses!
I was always frustrated that they ended the way they did. It didn't have a true Trixie flavor.