Chip Flagston

Chip Flagston is the teenage son in the Flagston family, the eldest child of Hi and Lois, living alongside his siblings Trixie, Ditto, and the twins in the classic domestic newspaper comic strip Hi and Lois.

A Silver Age creation of the sharp-witted team of Larry Siegel and Wally Wood, Chip Flagston made his debut in Mad #80 in 1963 before finding a long home in the pages of Hi and Lois and beyond, sharing those strips and panels with the likes of Hi, Lois, Trixie, Ditto, and Henry Flagston across a run that stretched into 1980. A fixture of newspaper-comics-adjacent publishing — including the Calgary Herald Comic Book and the educational Comics Teach — Chip represents that cozy, domestic corner of mid-century American comics where family life was the whole world. For collectors who love the intersection of satire, syndicated strips, and Silver Age print culture, this Flagston kid is a charming piece of the puzzle.