Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Natural Like By Golly As You Kin Betcha Yo' Life

Here we are again, better late than never. And WHOOSH, a fine bit of cartooning, starting in on the classic Sam Handwich episode.

Once again, I'm including this particular segment from the Pogo Sunday Punch book so you can see how the page was creatively edited to fit the format of the book, for better or worse, slicing through panels and all. Whoosh!

January 4, 1953


5 comments:

  1. Nigh on 60 years I've been familiar with this story and it only today occurs to me to ask: why don't they take this egg back to the Fountain of Age? (One answer is that if they did, the story arc would be over too soon. But I wonder if there's a reason internal to the story. Maybe nobody but Melonbone know how to balance one fountain against the other, so if they tried it on the egg he might overshoot and end up too old.)

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  2. I think you answered your own mystery, Larry . . . other than the fact that (SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!) it was all a crazy dream.

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    1. If you give away too many spoilers, would that make this a spoiled egg story?

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  3. Oh no. I only just caught "You'll be a yolk, a laughing stock!"

    I guess the yolk's on me.

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    1. EGGzactly, Kevin. SHELL we take our act on the road? And why did we cross that road anyway?

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