Hi and Lois
Hi and Lois is a comic strip about a suburban family. It debuted on October 18, 1954 and is distributed by King Features.
Hi and Lois Flagston are typical American suburbanites. They have four children: a slovenly teen named Chip, rambunctious twins named Dot and Ditto, and a baby named Trixie. They also have a large shaggy dog named Dawg. They have as neighbors, the Thurstons, formed by the lazy and fatso Thirsty and his wife, the skinny Irma.
The Flagstons debuted in Mort Walker's strip Beetle Bailey. They spun off into their own strip, written by Walker and drawn by Dik Browne. Lois Flagston is Beetle Bailey's sister and the two strips make occasional crossovers. One of them was in 1994 (when the strip turned 40 years of creation), when Beetle seizes to visit his sister Lois and her family.
Today the strip is considered rather dated, though it has made some efforts to keep up with the times, such as housewife Lois Flagston taking up a career in real estate in 1980. In previous decades it was acclaimed, and in 1962 earned Dik Browne a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society.
The strip is now written by Brian and Greg Walker and drawn by Robert "Chance" Browne, the sons of the original creative team.
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