Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Gonna Need Some Brave Help

Sorry that this strip suffered a wee bit of damage in trimming, years ago—almost lost George the Bug.
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  1. Chris Barat9/29/10, 4:22 PM

    Tom,

    This is like a LOONEY TUNE gag with Bugs preparing to fight a bad guy -- "Let's fight clean and not do THIS!" (as he whacks the bad guy in some underhanded manner). Maybe Kelly got the notion from there.

    Chris

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  2. Thomas Haller Buchanan9/29/10, 7:33 PM

    Chris, I'm gonna guess that that was an old vaudeville standby gag, and prolly where both Kelly and the Looney Tunes guys got their notions. I can just see Bert Lahr being part of that, or the young Abbott and Costello, or any of a hundred comics we never heard of.

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  3. Chris Barat9/30/10, 5:06 AM

    Tom,

    I have no doubt you're right that the bit predated LT. But it was LT that made it REALLY famous!

    Chris

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