“…All of the dailies from the first two years, 1913-1914, are collected. It’s explained that, for various reasons, strips didn’t run every day in the early years, making it only 340 contained here…”

Interesting. Now I wonder what those various reasons were…

Johanna Says:

“…Strips like these don’t work today, because when we see two married people who fight as much as Maggie and Jiggs do, we wonder why they just don’t get a divorce and find people who’d make them happier…”

Either that or wonder, “if you loved each other enough to get married, why don’t you treat each other better?”

Johanna Says:

“…The idea of living with the annoyances because you made a commitment, for better or for worse (and both might come at once), marks this comic strip as being from another era just as much as the art does…”

Good points! The idea of still annoying one’s spouse so much despite having made a commitment also comes from another era, right?