Any body else grow up with "Funny Papers"

As a kid on the farm Mom and Dad used to get the weekend edition of the Winnipeg Free Press. It had a rural distribution to farmers and ranchers across western Canada. Every week we would get the latest version and the first thing we looked for was the colored comic section that we all referred to as "The Funny Papers". I liked Beetle Bailly while Dad liked Bugs Bunny. My sister preferred Mandrake.

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Poppies · 61-69, F

Sure. And there was a boy down the block, one year older than me, who read some to me when I couldn't read yet. My favorite at that time was Sandy Sleighfoot.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@Poppies Sandy Sleighfoot was a comic? I thought it only was one of Gene Autry's off-beat Christmas carols -- like Santa's Coming In A Whirlybird -- that never made it like Rudolph did.

But remember when they would read the Sunday Funnies on the radio for kids who didn't get them, or were blind?

Poppies · 61-69, F

@dancingtongue I read that it was a comic, and a children's book and a song. I knew only the comic.
And I didn't know about the Sunday funnies on the radio!