Newspaper Clippings: A SONOMA VALLEY WOMAN CRASHED THE COMIC STRIPS ...

 From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat Feb 19, 1957, more than a few Sonoma Valley Gordo readers picked up a local reference in an earlier Sunday strip. 

 

The text reads: 

"A Sonoma Valley woman crashed the comic strips last Sunday -- quite unexpectedly, we're sure. 

"Seems cartoonist Gus Arriola, who draws Gordo, wanted to do a Sunday strip related to items appearing in newspapers. So he used for background ... a recent edition of the SF Chronicle."

Here's the strip in question, from February 10 1957, as it appears in this black-and-white scan of that day's Nevada State Journal:

Not every newspaper carried Gordo as a three-tier strip on Sundays, trimming it down to a more manageable two-strip comic by removing the title and first panels. This means that most readers would have missed an opportunity to see the reference in action:

And, as promised, the reference is right there. The broken text reads "...first specimens ... from Paris a short time ago via the trans-polar route and are now ensconced at Mrs. Ines Ettelson's Rancho Alta Vista in Sonoma."