P.J.

Few characters carry the cozy warmth of the funny pages quite like P.J., who made their debut in The Calgary Herald Comic Book #13 in 1978, right in the heart of the Bronze Age. Spanning a remarkable 34 years of publication, P.J. shares their world with a familiar, wholesome cast — Jeffy, Dolly, Billy, and others — across titles like Family Circus and The Calgary Herald Comic Book. It's a testament to enduring charm that a character rooted in the newspaper strip tradition found a home across such a range of publications, from The American Legion to Love. For collectors with a soft spot for the gentler, slice-of-life side of comics history, P.J. is a delightful piece of that long-running tradition.