Most of the 1940's-50' cartoonists tried their hand at a newspaper strip at some point. Hoff was one of the Saturday Evening Post/Collier's/etc regulars, who succeeded the first. His strip Tuffy ran from 1945 to 1950 at least. Alas, it did not catch the spirit of the times and disappeared without a trace, comic book, cartoon series or book collection.
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Love Hoff. Loved his kid books as a child. Love his cartoons. Love his communism. Lucky enough to own some clippings of Tuffy. A fun overlooked strip. It's no Nancy, but what is?
He also did a daily cartoon series between November 1959 and March 1960 which I hope to show next week.
By the late '40s, was anyone else still using the "flop take" where someone Is knocked off his feet by the punchline? It seems so 1920....
I guess many of the survivors of the twenties were. Like George Swanson's The Flop Family. I will look for it.
Here's Condorito, still going strong with flop takes since 1949! http://www.condorito.com
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