GORDO IN THE 1970s: June - July 1974

Arriola makes the absolute best of the smaller newspaper strips of the 1970s with detail-packed strips from the Summer of 1974. On Independence Day, he expands the usual three panels to five (with an explosive finale), depicts drunken hummingbirds dashing through curving gutters cut across the panel, and brings out vast distinctions in tone with delicate hatching...

Daily strips from June 24 - July 6 1974: