Monday, April 24, 2017

Brother, Oh Brother

Fred McCarthy was a Franciscan Friar whose single panel cartoon in the Dennis the Menace style, Brother Juniper, ran from 1958 to 1987.


His middle name was Francis and it's as Fred Francis that he tried a spin-off about Sister Suzie. Interestingly the same year he got copyright for a Sister Suzie pocket, he also registered a Brother Rufus for his own pocket. Another spin-off or the title of an unknown Juniper book? Wikipedia gives these eight titles for the books that are known:

*McCarthy, Fred. ''Brother Juniper''. (1957). Garden City:Hanover House.
*McCarthy, Fred. ''Brother Juniper Strikes Again''. (1959). Garden City:Hanover House.
*McCarthy, Fred. ''Brother Juniper at Work and Play''. (1960). Garden City:Hanover House.
*McCarthy, Fred. ''More Brother Juniper''. (1960). New York:Pocket Books.
*McCarthy, Fred. ''Inside Brother Juniper''. (1963). New York:Pocket Books.
*McCarthy, Fred. ''Well Done, Brother Juniper''. (1963). Garden City:Doubleday.
*McCarthy, Fred. ''The Whimsical World of Brother Juniper''. (1963). New York:Pocket Books.
*McCarthy, Fred. ''The Ecumenical Brother Juniper''. (1965). Garden City:Doubleday.

The Brother Rufus book (like the Sister Suzie book) would have been from the same publisher:

1 comment:

  1. Seeing this panel, it seems that I'm listening songs of singing nuns as Dominique (which the Singing Nun recorded in 1963) and The Lord's prayer (which the Australian nun Sister Janet Mead recorded in 1973).

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