If you liked Gasoline Alley
12 comics like Gasoline Alley
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with Gasoline Alley (slice of life), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Comics like Gasoline Alley
Family Life · Slice of Life1. Bringing Up Father
by George McManus
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Jiggs came into money and would rather be eating corned beef with his old friends; Maggie intends them to be respectable and throws crockery about it. Drawn in a clean deco line that still looks modern beside the strips printed around it.
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Family Life · Slice of Life2. The Gumps
by Sidney Smith
- Drama
- Slice of Life (shared)
An ordinary family with money troubles, told as a continuing story rather than a daily joke — the strip that first made readers buy tomorrow's paper to find out what happened. Everything serialised owes it something.
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Family Life · Slice of Life3. Winnie Winkle
by Martin Branner
- Slice of Life (shared)
A young woman goes out to work and keeps her family fed on the wages. It arrived the year American women got the vote, and it was the first strip to treat a working woman as the ordinary centre of a story.
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Family Life4. Foxy Grandpa
by Charles E. Schultze
- Comedy
Two boys plan a prank on the old man; the old man saw it coming and turns it round on them. The joke never varies, which was the point — readers came back to watch the grandfather win again.
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Coming of Age5. Little Orphan Annie
by Harold Gray
- Adventure
- Drama
An orphan with no pupils, a dog called Sandy, and a habit of walking into other people's troubles. Adventure serial and melodrama at once, and it argued with its own readers about politics for decades.
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Coming of Age6. Reg'lar Fellers
by Gene Byrnes
- Comedy
Neighbourhood boys, spelled the way they talk, arguing about the rules of games they are inventing as they go. Small stakes taken entirely seriously, which is what being eight years old is like.
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Coming of Age · Slice of Life7. Look Back
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
- Drama
- Slice of Life (shared)
Fujino draws the comic strip in her school paper and thinks she is the best in town, until a strip by a girl who never comes to school appears beside hers. A single long chapter from the creator of Chainsaw Man about two girls, drawing, and the years that follow.
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Family Life · Slice of Life8. Spy × Family
by Tatsuya Endo
- Action
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
The master spy Twilight has one mission: get close to a dangerous politician through his son's elite school. For that he needs a family, fast. He adopts Anya, who can secretly read minds, and marries Yor, who is secretly an assassin. None of them knows the others' secrets — except Anya, who knows everybody's. A warm, very funny family comedy with spy thriller trimmings.
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Slice of Life9. Toonerville Folks
by Fontaine Fox
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
A trolley that meets all the trains, a skipper with a beard, and a suburb of people who know each other far too well. The trolley became famous enough that real towns claimed to be the original.
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Slice of Life10. Krazy Kat
by George Herriman
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Supernatural
A cat loves a mouse, the mouse throws a brick, and the cat reads the brick as a token of love. Thirty years of the same joke, told in a shifting desert landscape that changes between panels.
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Slice of Life11. Buster Brown
by Richard F. Outcault
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
A neatly dressed boy, his talking dog Tige, and a prank every Sunday — followed by a written resolution never to do it again, which never survives the week.
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Slice of Life12. Happy Hooligan
by Frederick Burr Opper
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
A tramp with a tin can for a hat tries to do somebody a kindness and is arrested for it in the last panel. Every week, for thirty years, the same good intention and the same policeman.
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