There was a
time, before TV, when newspapers carried a ‘funny paper’ page, the predecessor to
the graphic novel.
People
looked forward to the next chapter of their favorite funny paper characters.
Dick Tracy
was one of my favorites. I still today
often find myself using the phrase ‘Okey Doky Niki Hokey.’
It seems more and more, as I age, that memories from the past overlay the present. Things I haven’t thought of in decades come back as vivid memories.
In the 1960’s
the name Niki Hokey resurfaced with the Cajun singer, P. J. Proby.
Laissez les bons temps rouler
the Ol'Buzzardr
I remember reading Dick Tracy in the coloured comics insert that came with Saturday edition of the Winnipeg Tribune that my grandmas subscribed to.
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