Eleflamp Removal

This may be where Humbert gets his Peanie Brickle nickname, in some Kellyesque way.

I Ain't Welcome?

Well, if I was tired of all the yellow backgrounds on a lot of the Sunday strips, I'd welcome them now — over the dishwater backgrounds of this week's strip. I love the strips where the colors are festive, but oh well, who am I to complain?

Black Magic!

Kelly keeps on keepin' on with the story line, not progressin' it much, but havin' his fun.

In the top panel is a critter that's a bit unusual, at least up to this time. Just a few months down the road, Kelly takes us to Pandemonia—where this critter would fit right in. Methinks Kelly was gearin' up and countin' down for the blastoff to 'Mars'.

detail of top panel

A Handful of Nomenclateral Apocrypha

What other comic strip would bring in reference to cartographer Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 naming of the Americas?

A Unconformulate Nonesuch

There have been a number of you Kelly fans that have contacted me with some really nice Kelly material that I plan on posting on this blog. But I have to apologize that it's taking me so long to do so, as I need to organize the stuff into proper order to tell a proper story, and not only is my time short, but so is my attention span and focus. I keep jumping from project to project and back again, that I'm just plain dizzy. Busy and dizzy . . . geez, aren't we all?

Anyway, it really could be awhile afore I can think straight. 'Til then at least I can scan and post the consecutive Sundays, and that's sumthin', ain't it?

Still not sure who or what that furry critter is. And man, this strip is chock full of Kellyesque wordisms.

A Geologiwockle Field Trip

Here it is, Sunday Kelly Sunday again! I miss posting more often, but gad it's been busy around here. At least I make time for these nice Sundays every Sunday.

This is a fun sequence with Peanie Brickle the elephant and these other critters. I have no idea who this little brown furry guy is—he scowls like Porky, but is an unnamed character. We just know he ain't no blinkin' bunny.

Gimme a Acorn, Wait Forty Years

This is our regularly scheduled Sunday continuity.

You'll have to get used to this schedule through the rest of the year: each Sunday will be this continuity with the same calendar date as 45 years ago; and in-between these Sundays will be other Kelly stuff, including Sundays from other times and storylines. Make sense? Even if it doesn't, you'll be seeing some fun Kelly stuff. So happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

The Biggerest Idea

Welcome back to Sunday, Kelly Sunday. This Sunday strip appeared for the first time forty-five years ago today, and today might only be the next time for it to appear since then . . . and THAT's sayin' somethin'.

'Put a Tiger in Your Tank' was a slogan building popularity since 1959. 'Put a 'Possum in Your Hearse' appeared to stay right here on this strip. Gee, with a little work it might have taken off.

Well, anyway, for a couple of weeks I think I'm going to have to keep posts minimal, thanks to heavy deadlines. You can count on a Sunday strip every week, and I'll fill in some Kelly stuff here and there. In a couple weeks I'll rethink where to go from here. Keep comin' back though, there'll be some great stuff ahead.

Back Into Vaudeville, Jazzbo

Well, as I've been indicating, the current run of dailies ends in just a few days, and I've wondered what to do about the Sundays of the same 1965 run. Last weeks' Sunday was the last of an arc, so I thought I'd end there for now. But I changed my mind, and I'm going to continue the run of Sundays with a new arc beginning today. It will be getting a little more interesting than some of the previous Sundays because now we have an elephant to add some weight to the strip! I believe that this is the introduction of Peanie Brickle, the fella we see throughout Pogo in Pandemonia.

So these Sundays will continue throughout the rest of this arc (which lasts until the end of the year!).

Of course this gag is based on the old vaudeville joke about numbered jokes, which even my dad used to tell.