After having appeared in the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch on a weekly basis from as early as 1923, Bozo was accepted for international syndication by the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate (Field Enterprises) in late 1945 and within six weeks was appearing daily in twenty newspapers and over 2,300,000 households on two continents. Bozo went on to appear in dailies in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and many others throughout the world. It was particularly popular in France and Japan. A survey of readers later taken by the syndicate found it to be its most popular comic. Foxo Reardon had sought syndication many times for the strip over the years. But that was during the Great Depression, which had followed a paper shortage and then the war years. At war’s end in 1945, those obstacles were removed.
The above words are taken from my book, “Whistling Down the Halls -The Times and Cartoons of America’s Original Pantomime Comic Strop Artist.” The 260-page book, which contains some 800 cartoons, including some 500 syndicated Bozo strips by Foxo Reardon, is available online from Walmart, Books A Million, Barnes and Nobel, Amazon, Bear Manor Media (its Publisher) and other Internet outlets. The publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, on the book’s publication, referred to it as “An absolute delight.” If you order it, I can almost guarantee that you will not be disappointed. And many thanks if you do. {Michael Reardon, son of the cartoonist and producer of Bozo on GoComics.}
After having appeared in the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch on a weekly basis from as early as 1923, Bozo was accepted for international syndication by the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate (Field Enterprises) in late 1945 and within six weeks was appearing daily in twenty newspapers and over 2,300,000 households on two continents. Bozo went on to appear in dailies in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and many others throughout the world. It was particularly popular in France and Japan. A survey of readers later taken by the syndicate found it to be its most popular comic. Foxo Reardon had sought syndication many times for the strip over the years. But that was during the Great Depression, which had followed a paper shortage and then the war years. At war’s end in 1945, those obstacles were removed.
The above words are taken from my book, “Whistling Down the Halls -The Times and Cartoons of America’s Original Pantomime Comic Strop Artist.” The 260-page book, which contains some 800 cartoons, including some 500 syndicated Bozo strips by Foxo Reardon, is available online from Walmart, Books A Million, Barnes and Nobel, Amazon, Bear Manor Media (its Publisher) and other Internet outlets. The publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, on the book’s publication, referred to it as “An absolute delight.” If you order it, I can almost guarantee that you will not be disappointed. And many thanks if you do. {Michael Reardon, son of the cartoonist and producer of Bozo on GoComics.}