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title: "A comic in real time"
date: 2016-08-17
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/comic-frank-king-gasoline-alley-context-en/"
description: "Every day for more than 40 years cartoonist Frank King told the stories of Walt Wallet and his foundling Skeezix. Through his comic, King became one of the 20th century’s most important documentarists of the American middle class."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Header_Schirn_Comic_King_Gasoline_1930_08_24_Strand_Panorama.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# A comic in real time