Cheerful Charlies is Allus Ready

I think a lot of general readers of the time would have no idea what was going on here or what the dialogue was all about, sort of like how it was in Krazy Kat's day. 

Still a lot of bleed-through from the other side that cleaned up pretty well. The colorizing was a bit dull other than a sudden red panel.

June 15, 1969

Wily Skill

This strip took even longer than last week's to clean up, with lots of bleed-through from the other side. I'm amazed that it cleaned up as well as it did (with a few flaws left in intentionally). It's also amazing that newsprint survives as well as it does, seeing as how flimsy and porous as it is/was.

Hogarth, the able bodied hornet, is a great little character and he certainly seems dee-licious. That's another lovely Kelly tree, and notice that even though there's very little background in this strip the panels work beautifully because the foreground compositions are so solid. And the word balloons are perfectly integrated, as always.

Basically, an ordinary strip and a work of art!

Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

June 8, 1969