The series premiered in 1956*. Stopped in 1994.

The strip circles about a boy named Winthrop, who lives in a suburban area filled with, mostly, other children with whom he interacts in strictly non-violent actions. He is a pondering youth who is often misunderstood. The series bears some similarity to Peanuts.

* The initial title for the strip was Morty Meekle, referencing to a family strip featuring a slender teenager with a girlfriend named Jill Wortle. In the series she has a younger brother named Winthrop. Some of the small kids in the strip survived into its second chapter beginning in 1967, when Winthrop took center stage.