For some reason, Gasoline Alley popped into my head today, and also the name "Skeezix". I avidly read the "funnies" as we called them, sometimes referred to them as the "jokes", Chicago slang, likely. Reminisce at it's best! So, I "Wiki'd it. Some results.....Frank "Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services. First published November 24, 1918, it is the second-longest-running comic strip in the US (after The Katzenjammer Kids) and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations.[1] In addition to inventive color and page design concepts, King introduced real-time continuity to comic strips by showing his characters as they grew to maturity and aged over generations." Cannot read captions, but the idea is there: Frank King's Gasoline Alley and That Phoney Nickel (March 12, 1933) Skeezix arrives: The baby, named Skeezix (cowboy slang for a motherless calf), grew up, fought in World War II, and is now a retired grandfather. Walt married after all, and had more children, ........ Young Walt Wallet (r.), 1920 See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_Alley
I remember Gasoline Alley but not sure if I read it or not but knew the minute I saw the name what it was.