Al Smith

Awards Smith received the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1968 for his work on Mutt and Jeff.

Al Smith Feature Service Smith ran his syndication service — mainly serving weekly newspapers — from 1951 until his 1986 death, at which point it was supplying 25 features. (Early on, the syndicate partnered with the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) With his death, management of the service was taken over by two of his daughters, with it lasting until . The most successful (or at least longest-running) strips syndicated by the Al Smith Feature Service were Church Chuckles, Deems, Grubby, Pops, Those Were the Days, and Smith's own Rural Delivery.

Al Smith Service strips and panels Buffo by Howard Rands (1989–1991) The Bumbles by Al Smith (1982–1983) Captain Flame by Pat Boyette, Bruce Darrow, and Don Sherwood (1954–1958) Church Chuckles by Charles Cartwright (1959–1997) Citizen George by George Wolfe (1970–1973) Deems by Tom Oka (Tom Okamoto) (1951–1980) George by George Wolfe (1969) Ginger Blue by Al Carreno (1954) Grubby by Warren Sattler (1964–1997) Going West by Frank Thomas (1951–1954) Hossface Hank by Frank Thomas (1955–1964) Inky by Hal Borden (1961–1965) It Just So Happened by Kern Pederson (1978) Jason by Foster Moore (1993–1999) Jest For Laughs by Paul Fung Jr. (1978–1983) Just So Happened by Kern Pederson (1980) Li'l Peanut by Lou Paige (1951) Looking Around by Sid Hathaway (1970) Off Main Street by Joe Dennett (1951–1961) Phrog by George Albitz (1985–1986) Pixel by Frank Hill and Ted Mancuso (1985) Pops by George Wolfe (1962–1978) Remember When by Al Smith (1955) Rural Delivery by Al Smith (1951–1997) — titled "Jackie" in 1951–1952 Sonny South by Courtney Alderson (1951–1972) Those Were the Days Art Beeman (1951–1983)