see you in the funny papers

Bye, Bye, I'll see you in the funny papers. See?

1915 January 13, “The ‘fish’ and ‘whick’: Had a little conversation about the school work”, in W[illiam] Y[oast] Morgan, editor, The Hutchinson News, last edition, volume XXVIII, number 275, Hutchinson, Kan.: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 12, column 6

"S'long!" he waved brightly. "See you in the funny papers …"

1926 October, Sara Haardt, “Jackson, Tennessee”, in Julian Starr, Jr., editor, The Carolina Magazine: The Official Literary Publication of the Students of the University of North Carolina, volume 57, number 1, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, →OCLC, page 37

"I'll see you in the funny papers." This is the remark that Alice White passed to Arthur Lake on the beach near Los Angeles last summer. It was a bit of current slang, but Alice little dreamed it would come true. But it has. A few months later Arthur was assigned to play the title role in First National Pictures' screen version of the famous funny paper comic, "Harold Teen." Miss White was given the role of Giggles in the picture.

1928 May 20, “Flashbacks and fadeouts”, in The Washington Post (Features), Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 3

[T]a-ta see you in the funnypaper

[1929, William Faulkner, “June 2, 1910”, in “The Sound and the Fury”, in The Sound and the Fury & As I Lay Dying, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1946, →OCLC, page 130

Well, I'll see you in the funny papers, and by that I mean the Alumni office at two tomorrow afternoon.

1947 December 27, Lawrence Williams, “Virgil Oliphant’s Christmas Present”, in William L. Chenery, editor, Collier’s, volume 120, number 26, Springfield, Oh.: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 3