Thursday, January 26, 2012

Black, Wet or Indiffermints

Another spin of a 'toon from the grade A DJ — DJ David B.

If it's Deacon you're seekin', you've come to the place where this is the case.

Hey Chris! Swish, Ploop! More slapstick!

September 17, 1950

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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/26/12, 3:31 PM

    Ablert looking very much like 'Meat Hamburg' by 'Mucky Spleen' (aka Kelly, Walt) in 'The Bloody Drip'

    Transatlantic Hun sends

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  2. Daniel [oeconomist.com]1/26/12, 9:08 PM

    The recurring theme that I find so amusing in Pogo is an escalating commitment to madness. In this strip, that is exemplified by Albert pulling out a pair of gats to deal with alleged truancy on the part of an adult bear.

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  3. Chris Barat1/28/12, 7:55 PM

    Tom,

    Something interesting re: the Deacon in some of these very early strips: he doesn't speak in the Gothic type. Wonder why?

    Chris

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  4. Thomas Haller Buchanan1/28/12, 8:26 PM

    Chris, do you mean in this strip? 'Cause it's there, just a little underplayed. I think Kelly wanted it readable for the kids, who he always played to in the Sunday strips.

    If you mean elsewhere, a quick look at the dailies, seems like he does from the get go.

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  5. Thomas Haller Buchanan1/28/12, 8:31 PM

    Ah, Chris, I see what you mean. In the very next Sunday post I've going to put up, Deacon indeed is not speaking Gothic. I think either somebody forgot, or somebody thought it was too complex for folks. I'm gonna go with the somebody forgot theory myself. Those things happen early in the branding process.

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  6. Thomas Haller Buchanan1/28/12, 11:49 PM

    Daniel, you keep showing up in the spam file, and I just now rescued your comment.

    Yes madness, ala Lewis Carroll's Wonderland.

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  7. Anonymous2/2/12, 4:51 PM

    It's nice to see this all cleaned up and posted where everyone can see it. Sign me DJ David B.

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