Priscilla's Pop
Encyclopedia
Priscilla's Pop was a comic strip
drawn by Al Vermeer. Syndicated by NEA
, it ran from 1946 until 1983.
, and her parents, Hazel and Waldo Nutchell. Other characters in the strip included her older brother, Carlyle, and her dog Oliver, plus her two young friends, Hollyhock and Stuart. Comics historian Don Markstein
described the situation:
Two of the constant themes in the strip were Waldo's lunch, which consisted of eating mashed potato sandwiches to help stretch the family budget until the mortgage was paid. The other was, like many little girls of that time, Priscilla's yearning for her very own real horse. Somewhere before the strip ended, the money was found in the family budget to make such a purchase. Waldo, however, still ate his mashed potato sandwiches for lunch.
Edmund R. "Ed" Sullivan drew the strip after Vermeer's retirement in 1976. The strip came to an end in 1983.
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
drawn by Al Vermeer. Syndicated by NEA
United Media
United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is the United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association...
, it ran from 1946 until 1983.
Characters and story
The strip featured Priscilla Nutchell, a young girl who was obsessed with the idea of owning a horseHorse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
, and her parents, Hazel and Waldo Nutchell. Other characters in the strip included her older brother, Carlyle, and her dog Oliver, plus her two young friends, Hollyhock and Stuart. Comics historian Don Markstein
Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Don Markstein's Toonopedia was a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation. Don D...
described the situation:
- The young school-age daughter was, of course, Priscilla. She was, in every possible way, a perfectly normal kid, outrageous only to the extent that most people that age are outrageous. It was only Waldo who got exasperated trying to deal with her. The cast was rounded out by Priscilla's friend, Hollyhock (who liked to read and consequently had a lot of general knowledge swimming around in her head), and Hollyhock's nemesis, Stuart (who doubted most of the factoids Hollyhock expressed).
Two of the constant themes in the strip were Waldo's lunch, which consisted of eating mashed potato sandwiches to help stretch the family budget until the mortgage was paid. The other was, like many little girls of that time, Priscilla's yearning for her very own real horse. Somewhere before the strip ended, the money was found in the family budget to make such a purchase. Waldo, however, still ate his mashed potato sandwiches for lunch.
Edmund R. "Ed" Sullivan drew the strip after Vermeer's retirement in 1976. The strip came to an end in 1983.