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)
“What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do?”
—John Berryman (1914–1972)
“The mighty river flowing dark and deep,
With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides
Vague-sounding through the City’s sleepless sleep,
Is named the River of the Suicides;”
—James Thomson (1834–1882)
“A speck that would have been beneath my sight
On any but a paper sheet so white
Set off across what I had written there.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)