English: The Smith Family Comic Strip By George and Virginia Smith. As a young Cartoonist George Smith did freelance illustrations and gag cartoons for many of the mainstream magazine's of his day. Many of his cartoons appeared in Collier’s and The Saturday Evening Post. After serving as chief artist for the 55th Signal Battalion in WW2 New Guinea in the South Pacific ”Smith returned to the USA, in 1946, and again sold cartoons to The Post and other magazines of national circulation. In 1950 he submitted the first " The Smith Family" cartoon strip based on his family and was accepted by a syndicate. The Smith Family strip ran in over 60 papers in the U.S. and was published until 1997, outliving 3 syndicates and most of the magazines he originally sold to.