I’ve mentioned in these comics that I’ve been buying and reading the reprint collections of the Harold Gray classic, “Little Orphan Annie.” I noticed that around the early 1930’s, on the last Sunday strip of the year, he’d have Annie give a recap of what she went through that year. IMO that was particularly helpful to the readers of the strip, since they’d more than likely would have forgotten some of the characters and story lines of that year. (unlike today, with strips on line available in archives or reprint collections that readers could refer to).

When it came time to draw this comic, the last strip of 2018, I thought I’d attempt a similar approach.

For example of those Annie strip’s, here’s the last Sunday strip from 1930: