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A career retrospective (Part One) with Ferd Johnson, who holds the record for the longest continuous stint by any creator on an American comic strip — 68 years on Moon Mullins, beginning in 1923 as assistant to strip creator Frank Willard. Johnson recalls the creative culture of the Chicago Tribune cartoon bullpen alongside Frank King, Harold Gray, Chester Gould, and Sidney Smith, and the origin stories of Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy, and Little Orphan Annie.

The third and final part of Dorf's extended interview with the 85-year-old Moon Mullins cartoonist, now retired, covering his memories of newspaper strip legends including Milton Caniff, Sid Smith, Chester Gould, Frank King, Dick Moores, and Walt Disney. Johnson reflects on the decline of newspaper strips compared to the golden era and his late-career turn to oil and watercolor painting under Norman Rockwell's instruction.