Priscilla's Pop


Priscilla's Pop was an American gag-a-day comic strip drawn by Al Vermeer. Syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association, it ran from July 7, 1946 until September 11, 1983.
Vermeer drew the strip from July 7, 1946 to July 17, 1976; Edmund R. "Ed" Sullivan picked up the strip after Vermeer's retirement.

Characters and themes

The strip featured Priscilla Nutchell, a young girl who was obsessed with the idea of owning a horse, and her parents Hazel and Waldo Nutchell. Other characters in the strip were her older brother Carlyle, her two young friends Hollyhock and Stuart, and her dog Oliver.
Comics historian Don Markstein described the situation:
A constant theme of the strip was Waldo's lunch, which consisted of eating mashed potato sandwiches to save money until the mortgage was paid. Another theme was Priscilla's yearning for her very own horse. Sometime before the strip ended, money was found in the family budget to buy a horse. Waldo, however, was still eating mashed potato sandwiches.