An Altar Boy Named Speck, also named Speck the Altar Boy is a newspaper comic strip. It ran from 1953 until 1974. It was created by Tut le Blanc and Margaret Ahern. Tut Le Blanc drew the strip from 1953 to 1954, and then Margaret Ahern took over the duties from 1955 to 1979. It relates the story of a mischievous but lovable youngster who keeps getting into some trouble or the other.
Famous quotes containing the words altar, boy, named and/or speck:
“The drama’s altar isn’t on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it’s roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die.”
—Philip Roth (20th century)
“There was a young lady named Bright,
Who traveled much faster than light.”
—Arthur Buller (1874–1944)
“I know, it must have been my imagination, but it makes me realize how desperately alone the Earth is. Hanging in space like a speck of food floating in the ocean. Sooner or later to be swallowed up by some creature floating by.... Time will tell, Dr. Mason. We can only wait and wonder. Wonder how, wonder when.”
—Tom Graeff. Tom Graeff. Young astronomer, Teenagers from Outer Space, after just seeing the invading spaceship through his telescope, and dismissing it (1959)