Friday, February 24, 2023
Obscurity of the Day: Grandma Sez
When I think of Frank R. Leet, as like you I am wont to do at irregular intervals, I automatically associate him with NEA, where he produced material on the wholesale plan. But Leet also had a stopover at World Color Printing, where his most remembered contribution, if one has a memory for these sorts of things, was the rather awful Sunday strip about a pony, Duke. But today we have a daily-style panel that he produced for World Color called Grandma Sez, another in the loooong string of copycat features to Abe Martin.
For the longest time I only saw Grandma Sez in its 1920s reprint run, where it ran on WCP's weekly black and white kid's page 1928-1933. Finally, though, Francis Mouton found it in a quasi-original run in the Spokane Chronicle, where it appeared from September 28 1914 to January 7 1915. I say quasi-original becase that paper almost always ran material late and out of sequence, so the truly official dates are probably a bit earlier than those quoted here. But until someone finds WCP dailies running in a timely and orderly manner, the chances of which are pretty slim, this is the best we can do.
Labels: Obscurities
