I loved this strip. Reading it over the years you could see that it had a depth that the more common joke-a-day strips never had. You cared about the characters. Gasoline Alley and some others had that quality as well. I love the medium, but really appreciate being able to read the reprints collected together into books.
I gave up on my own drawing years ago, but I don’t think that I’d have been able to come up with stories that anyone would want to read.