Gil Thorp Home Page

Gil Thorp Home Page!

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Gil Thorp has an official website with an archive of strips as well as today's! It has great graphics too. It only needs a downloadable screen saver to be complete. They sell merchandise too, but not Matt Shaughnessy's such as The Best of Gil Thorp (check Amazon too), Gil Thorp Silver Anniversary Year Book, and Fired Up!

Hmmm, there was a Gil Thorp comic book . . . bet one of you avid readers snaps this up!

Does the new writer mean the Chicago Tribune will start running the strip again?

Visit the Bizarro Gil

Read the astounding tale of how I gave the Mudlarks their name.

Scholars even read Gil Thorp! Here is his bib (that's academic talk for bibliography):
Hagen, Patricia Gil's World Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 31.3 Winter 1997, pp 47-54

She must be a fan. Patricia says Gil is "a giant among prep coaches." She also points out that some of the characters tend to resemble each other . . .

"The Gil Thorp High School Theme Park," First Reading XII; Conference on American Culture, University of Minnesota-Duluth, May 1992.
"Gil Thorp's Homeboys: Adolescence without Sex, Drugs, or Rock & Roll," Popular Culture Association, Louisville, March 1992.

And if you are not a scholar, you can cheat and use this really lame term paper.

Coming soon to a comic strip near you - a bit of local color!

Here's some loser who thinks people don't read Gil! (I think people don't read Blogs.)

Meet Tom Neville of Glenbrook South - a real Gil Thorp (not that our Gil isn't!)

And it was news when a character wore a yarmulke. (What would you expect in a world where the Final Four is scheduled on Passover?)

Interesting Fact #1: The Stars & Stripes carried Gil Thorp during the Vietnam War. Wonder if they carry it now . . .

View from the Bleachers
Sign the Milford High School Year Book. Tell what the coach has meant to you and what your favorite Milford HS memories and moments are. Read what Gil's friends have written . . .

Gil's creator, Jack Berrill, passed away March 14, 1996. The strip will continue, but for his faithful readers, the playdowns will never be the same . . .

The strip is now being drawn by Neal Rubin (04/04) and illustrated by Frank McLaughlin.

My Vietnam Related Websites:
Women in Vietnam ~ Read about ALL the women who served . . .
The Irish on the Wall ~ An effort to locate the Irish who died in Vietnam
Tim O'Brien's Home Page ~ National Book Award Winner and Americal Vet
Emily's Poetry ~ By a Red Cross Donut Dolly
Shrapnel in the Heart ~ The most moving book you will read on Vietnam
All About Vietnam ~ An annotated bibliography of books about Vietnam for sale thru Amazon Worldwide!
Battle Dressing ~
Project Hearts and Minds ~ Help put Viet Nam back together
Photos from a Holts' Military History Tour ~ My trip to Vietnam, February 1998

My Other Websites:
Maybe Later . . . ~ My Creative Nonfiction
Irish in Korea ~ Irish men and women who gave their lives in the Korean War
Literature of the Korean War ~ Don't let the literature be forgotten
Samuel Pepys ~ One of my favorite authors
Chicago Theatre Z - A ~ This is the best theater town in the country!
Soccer Literature ~ I'm a fan and I read
O'Leary Lantern ~ Fire! Fire! Fire!
Gil Thorp ~ THE Coach (apologies to The General!)
Poetry of the First World War ~ Owen, Hardy and others
Chi-COW-go ~ Cowz plus Commentary (this used to be a cow town)
Graham Fulton, Scottish Poet ~ Charles Manson Auditions for the Monkees

Other Important Websites:
The Truth About Caroline ~ a really good Young Adult book by my niece, Stacey M. Lane Grosh
Remember Oklahoma City ~ The Civil Service and Military will NEVER forget!

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