For the American football player, see Stewart "Smokey" Stover.
Smokey Stover
Author(s)
Bill Holman
Current status/schedule
Concluded
Launch date
March 10, 1935
End date
1972
Syndicate(s)
New York News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate
Publisher(s)
Whitman, Blackthorne Publishing, Fantagraphics
Genre(s)
Humor
Smokey Stover is an American comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Bill Holman from March 10, 1935, until he retired in 1972[1] and distributed through the Chicago Tribune. It features the misadventures of the titular fireman.
^Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 357. ISBN 9780472117567.
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