Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Back to my roots.

Tuesday comic strip day.

Last week John Kricfalusi told us (over at his blog) that the essence of cartooning is 'funny pictures'. Here's Johnny Hart doing what he did best. It helps to reliaze that these cartoons were done more than 40 years ago.

July 3 1965: For me the point where any strip 'jumps the shark' is when the cartoonist starts doing golf jokes. It means he is spending more time at the golf course playing with his buddies than working on his strip. Still, this is a good one.


Aug 14 1965: I only had to slightly change the wording of this gag to make it topical.


Dec 3 1965:


Dec 24 1965:

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