Grand Canyon

HumorousMaximus is a website that features daily cartoons. Yesterday, they began running old episodes of Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon, starting almost at the beginning. The first Canyon strip was a Sunday page which ran on January 13, 1947. Yesterday, the website posted the first daily strip, which appeared the Monday after.

As I understand it, they'll post a new daily strip each day until they reach the end of the run. The strip lasted from 1/13/47 until 6/4/88, which works out to 15,118 strips. There were 2,159 Sunday pages and this website isn't running them…so that leaves 12,959 daily strips. At seven per week, that means 1,851 weeks or around 35 and a half years. What does this work out to? June of 2042? I'm too tired to do the rest of the math. It's quite a while.

You can read each day's Steve Canyon strip here. If you don't know why people loved this feature, give it a few weeks. You'll see.