Source: Neatorama
I’m an unapologetic reader of comics – newspaper comics – even though I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper for about 20 years now. True, I used to read comic books, but I seemed to outgrow those by the time I reached high school. Newspaper comics, however, that’s a different story.
One of my favorite comic strips throughout the years has been Alley Oop, which began in 1933 and continues to this day. As unlikely a popular comics character as Popeye was (and is), a time-traveling caveman runs a close second place. Its creator, Vincent Trout (V.T.) Hamlin, a would-be cartoonist, was working in the oilfields in Iraan, Texas, in 1930 when he had an idea that a comic strip featuring a caveman could be syndicated. After several years of development, the Alley Oop comic strip made its debut in 1933. Soon, however, Hamlin realized that storylines were becoming hard to conceive if Oop remained confined to the prehistoric land of Moo. Thus he introduced 20th-century time travel to the strip (as seen below) in 1939 and the rest, as they say, is…
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