dr_hermes (dr_hermes) wrote in scans_daily, @ 2009-07-31 19:38:00 |
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Smokey Stover's Spooky
This was a back-up strip that ran along SMOKEY STOVER back when newspapers were much larger and Sunday comics had room to breathe and experiment. Bill Holman drew an odd strip, that's for sure. The adventures of a fireman and his chief, as well as their wives and cronies, were just a vehicle for a mass of sight gags, horrendous puns and disturbing art. People and objects tended to wander out of the panels, there were these enigmatic and vaguely ominious phrases scattered all over ("Foo," "Notary Sojac" and "1506 nix-nix," were most common)and the reaction shots involved dentures flying out of mouths and ears whirling away. There was also the habit Smokey and Chief Nutt had of addressing each other as "girlie," "cutie," and "sweetie." SMOKEY STOVER ran from 1935 to 1973, and remains a gem of the screwball outlook.
Anyway, Spooky was a typical cartoon cat, concerned with her own comfort and meals no matter how much distress she caused getting them. I've often wondered about the red bandage tied to her tail... it was there year after year.