Bozo by Foxo Reardon for November 10, 2021

1 Bozo setting up his sled dog team for the winter. Best of luck with that.

2 Internal Affairs keeping a watchful eye in panel 4. (Is Umbrella Guy flying or laying in the street?)

3 Today’s headline: Police Nab Another Desperado.

1. Yeah! That happens if you can’t decide which one to choose… (I hope you have enough paper at home to lay under them)

2. …apropos paper. Even if he’s the cop you better take it home for your doggies if he won’t pay for it.

3. So what’s the matter, dude – NOW you have the paper you asked for!

How much are those eight doggies in the window?

It takes two days of papers to kill a fly now.

A cop wanting a free paper; another sleeping while on duty. Thing is, there’s always a small measure of truth behind social commentary such as this. The post war 40s must have been quite interesting.

That paperboy seems to have a complicated relationship with the law. I suppose it is because they are the few who are up and about at the crack of dawn.

1) So many mouths to feed. 2) Not so free press. 3) Rude wake up service.

Bozo’s running out of friends on the Force. Good thing he has those dogs to watch his place.

1. Bozo’s a little tied up right now.

2. What do you mean I gotta pay? Oh, nevermind.

3. Wakeup call!

By the way, where’s me pal Gent?

1. Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-TAA!! PUPPY POWER!

2. There ain’t no such thing as a free newspaper.

3. “Oh, it’s you, the there ain’t no such thing as a free newspaper guy. I’ll ensures that you is in trouble!”

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And yes of course, a big thumbs up and a big applause for Foxo’s wonderful comic, the picturesque pantomime called Bozo!

I had the fortunate experience of talking with some of the old Police Officers of my town about walking a beat, sometimes the beat was so far in distance that after shaking the doors, checking the back areas, ect. your return trip to the station was almost the end of your duty. They did not have radios, their source of com was call boxes, and pay phones. Weather was always a challenge. Patrol cars did try to help in an over watch of the area, but no telling when they would be rolling up. The ones that had a Beat down town, had better means of fighting the weather because of awnings over the sidewalks. There was those tales of cats and animals jumping out of dark and dumpsters, all night cafe’s, and a lot of them had “Barney Fife stories” about their patrols. I see Foxo Reardon’s “Cops On Patrol” no matter how they are portrayed, I remember those stories some of my town’s Finest Law Enforcement Officers from those days in the 50’s and 60’s, and even into the 70’s.

I can certainly identify with the first panel. I only have two small dogs and they can get me tangled up in their leashes before we even leave the house.

you can’t pick just one

Now I want to know if there was ever a daily paper named “The Daily Paper.”

As I was a walkin’ one morning for pleasure

I spied an old feller come strollin’ along.

His arms were stretched out by a half-dozen dachshunds,

And as he approached he was singin’ this song:

“Whoopee-ti-yi-yo, get a long little doggy;

It’s your misfortune if one you don’t own.

”Whoopee-ti-yi-yo, get a long little doggy;

You know that a dachshund will brighten your home."

1) Look at that Doggie in the Window: Bozo sees a whole passel of cute doggies, he buys them all and they wish to walk in all directions.

2) Cop On: Delivering the evening paper Bozo gives one to the beat cop and as he leaves his supervisor blows his whistle on him.

3) Rabble Rouser: Bozo still delivering papers into the evening tosses one at a sleeping cop. The cop beats him and calls his precinct reporting “assault an battery” by Bozo.