Tuesday, November 25, 2025

the Toonerville Trolley




I've heard the name, didn't know what it was, so I looked it up, and here's what the internet has to say:


a newspaper comic strip feature by Fontaine Fox, which ran from 1908 to 1955. It began in 1908 in the Chicago Post, and by 1913, it was syndicated nationally.

The single-panel gag cartoon (with longer-form comics on Sunday) is a daily look at Toonerville, situated in what are now called the suburbs. Central to the strip is the rickety little trolley called the "Toonerville Trolley that meets all the trains", driven in a frenzy by the grizzly old Skipper to meet each commuter train as it arrives in town.

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  1. Fond memories of cartoons that I read as a child. Thanks/

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  2. My favorite character in the strip was always Powerful Katrinka.

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    1. Wow! I had no idea anyone here had read it!
      I was just blown away at at the movement of the guy when the trolley comes to a stop, and the skipper turns the crank to get it going again (50 seconds into the video) because that extra actions, in the mechanicals of the wind up machinery must have been a lot of extra work on the designers part!

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