The first full-color collection of the Hi and Lois Sunday pages ever published, this 50th Anniversary retrospective includes a generous selection of recent comic strips as well as a sampling of classic masterpieces from the past. The stars of the feature—Hi, Lois, Chip, Dot, Trixie, and Dawg—provide a warm, loving portrait of a wholesome family, with traditional values and modern-day sensibilities. The cartoon strips depict everything from busy parents juggling jobs and a teen coping with self-image issues to sibling rivalry and a toddler learning about her place in the world. Childhood fantasies, nostalgia trips, seasonal strolls, summer vacations, and holiday celebrations are among the recurrent themes explored in these Sunday episodes.
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Brian Walker, Greg Walker, and Chance Browne are the sons of Hi and Lois creators Mort Walker and Dik Browne. They all live in Wilton, Connecticut.
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A family humor feature of distinction,
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Nicely printed in full color on slick paper. At least the pages are numbered, but few strips retain their original dates and many do not even have the year of copyright. I, for one, would have liked to have seen the first "Hi and Lois" Sunday reprinted, and more historic inclusions. Oh, well... Most reprinted strips seem to be from the last third of the feature's history, and several nice autumn examples are included. The strips are arranged in subject categories. For all that, "Hi and Lois" is a family humor strip which will stand up better in the long run than the more socially revelant strips which seem to dominate the newspapers today. We can only wait for a more comprehensive collection with date citations, as we do for the companion feature "Beetle Bailey." In the meanwhile, buy this book. Also recommended for public and school libraries.
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The life of Hi and Lois,
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Hi and Lois is one of my favorite comic strips that focuses on family. This story is about Flagstons, Hi and Lois and their four children; Chip, Ditto & Dot (twins), and baby Trixie. This comic strip portrays many fun activities such as family walks in the woods, picnic, skiing in winter, camping, father - son talks about issues related young adults, celebration of father's day, celebration of mother's day, etc. This is also one of the few strips that gives some prominence to the thoughts of little Trixie that touches readers through her beliefs on sunbeam, her brothers and sister and the immediate environment.
In one sketch, during a skiing trip, Flagstons (who always go with their four children) get lost on skiing slope. In another strip, Ditto's Mud Hen's baseball team loses, and get depressed but the whole atmosphere changes when Lois bring food for the losers! In another sketch, the father and son Chip go for a walk in the woods, Hi asks his son where does he wants to go to school, Chip cheerfully admits that he likes a "party school" so that he can have all the fun before he starts working like his dad. On father's day, Lois gives $150 to her kids to treat their dad; Hi makes good use of his day, by playing around of golf, a visit to burger place, then bowling, followed by a visit to the ice cream place. Lois gets annoyed when she finds out how expensive it is to entertain her husband. In a recent sketch on the same subject, Hi goes to play golf with his buddy Thurston, in the morning, with Lois's approval, and eats his breakfast in the evening on his bed. The bewildered kids ask why he is eating his breakfast so late, she replies, it is the father's day. Over the years the sketches about family picnics, ski trips, mother's day, father's day, father-son talks have not changed much but the Flagstons are a delightful bunch and they make great neighbors. 1. The Best of Hi and Lois 2. Hi and Lois: Say Cheese 3. Blondie: The Bumstead Family History 4. I Gave At The Office (A Sally Forth Collection)
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What a beautiful book,
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This review is from: Hi and Lois: Sunday Best (Paperback)
Living in my part of the world makes finding the cartoon Hi and Lois a little difficult to find at times. However, I had to jump at the opportunity of reading this wonderfully put together collection of the Sunday Best featuring the whole Hi and Lois gang.
This book is softcover measuring 11 inches X 8.5 approx. There are a total of 128 pages and almost each page (with the exception of the first few pages which consists more of an intro to the strip) features the beautifully color drawn strips that we found at one time or another in the Sunday papers. Each page is numbered and while it is true that the individual creation/publication dates are not indicated, you can easily see the evolution of the drawings which made it fun for me as I like to see the development of the artist as he grows with his medium. Also, this strip is such fun to read. It is innocent and brings me back to earlier in my life when I was a child and things always seemed so much simpler. Trixie and her love of the sunbeam - so sweet and beautiful. I also love the "thoughts" that run through her little head - always wondering, always discovering - it is heartwarming. Of course, I also love Dawg.... This strip has an innocence that touches me deeply and this collection is beautiful.
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