Bozo by Foxo Reardon for August 24, 2021

1 Can’t blame Umbrella Guy. After all, three’s a crowd.

2 Bozo decided to sleep on it and then the solution hit him.

3 Looks like the fish aren’t the only ones biting today.

1. Mysterious Umbrella Guy gets into the main action once again.

2. Bozo discovers gravity.

3. Don’t looks at me. I only steals picanic baskets.

And once again, a bunch of great comics with absolutely wonderful artwork with three dimensional aspects rendered beautifully on two dimensional paper. Great perspectives and scene composition. A great joy to read Bozo every day.

Once again, a big thumbs up for Foxo’s marvellous masterpiece Bozo!

Bozo epitomises the saying that a picture speaks a thousand words. Bozo is a wordless wonder.

I guess people weren’t as honest in the"good ol’ days" as we think.

1) Umbrella Guy closes shop. 2) Shaken then ‘stirred’. 3) Well at least Bozo has a boat he didn’t have before.

1. U. G. is not into sharing. And besides his parasol is for sun only and is not waterproof. Now Mitzi’s feather is going to get wet.

Fuzzy the Umbrella Guy is the strip’s “fifth-dimensional” character, like the Mynah Bird that walks eccentrically (to the tune of Mendelssohn’s “Fingal’s Cave” overture) through the strip like a visitor from another world, often bringing ruin to those who trifle with him. A silent actor (though we’re once told by the narrator that he has explained something to another character). There are versions of him in other Chuck Jones cartoons (like Bathing Suit Guy in THE DOVER BOYS AT PIMENTO U), as well as Tex Avery cartoons: Egghead once lopes lopsidedly through an unrelated cartoon, repeatedly, until the villain demands to know who he is, at which point Egghead brings a mallet out of his violin case and clobbers him, saying “I’m the hero of this here picture!”).

If not a hero, they are often a deux ex machina, or at least the final punch line to a cartoon. Audiences of the day might not have seen it coming, but those of us raised on these cartoons know it as soon as we see them once.

1. That Umbrella Guy is all wet , as are Bozo and his gal.

2. If I sit here and think about it, it will come to me.

3. Notice when Bozo dives in, Umbrella Guy is across the lake. When Bozo returns to the shore, no Umbrella Guy or Bozo’s things. Hrmmmm. I wonder.

3. My first thought is Fuzzy deliberately left the rowboat moored there hoping some fisherman would steal it so he could steal the thief’s fishing gear. The trouble with that idea is the boat is probably worth more than the fishing gear….

But, maybe it isn’t! Maybe it’s an old rotten leaky boat, and when Bozo realizes what junk it is he’ll abandon it, and Fuzzy can use the same decoy on other fishermen, over and over, until he has enough bait and fishing gear to stock a waterfront store, and enough clothes and shoes to open a haberdashery and a shoe store next door!

1) Any port in the storm: Bozo and Bozann getting caught in a sudden storm join Fuzzy who promptly closes his umbrella when it rains!

2) Delayed Reaction: Bozo shakes an apple tree but none fall. Sometime later one does and beans him.

3) Opportunity gawks: Going to fish, Bozo finds an unattended boat and swims out to get it. Rows back and finds all his stuff gone!

It’s like umbrella guy doesn’t know anything!