Bozo by Foxo Reardon for December 29, 2022

Bozo illustrates the parable of the talents?

1) As he was saying… Fuzzy believed him and stayed safe. ☺

2) No one saw that coming… I didn’t, anyway ☺

3) Lucky day for Bozo. Please notice how FoXo accurately drew Fuzzy’s footprints in the fresh snow. ⁠❤

Ev’ry single one of us

Is on thin ice sometimes, aren’t we?

But it becomes hilarious

When Bozo takes it literally

2. What a dispenser – have a sip

Mayflower flavor that’s what I call real craftmanSHIP!

3. Watch Boz walking through the snow free-range

Lose a dime and get a buck back in exchange

1 How else do you find where to put the sign? Right Bozo?

2 Don’t look now but I think your ship is sinking.

3 Happy New Year Bozo.

3. That’s quite a return on investment.

1. Ice breaker

2. Shipwright

3. Heaven sent

1 ‣ Heed your own warning, Bozo.

2 ‣ Hey, this water tastes like ship!

3 ‣ Cold cash?

Lots of people skate on thin ice….

That should give them something to talk about around the water cooler….

HMMM! Strange I would find a “fin” ……..

1) Well, it just proves Bozo’s not wrong.

2) That’s one way to stop water cooler talk!

3) Drop a dime in the snow, get five bucks back!

1) Cold as Ice – Foreigner 2) Message in a Bottle – The Police 3) Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow – Frank Zappa

Todays three display FoXo’s superbly splendid perspective artwork. Just look at all the wonderful details and elements in each panel. Peoples, things and elements, all placed at different focal lengths from the reader’s point of view, the foreground, background, and everything in between, the angles of the scenes, all depicting depths and dimensions.

BOZO drawn on two dimensional paper but every panel is like a photograph of a three dimensional cartoon world of realistic-looking depths and details. Such was the powerful perspective artwork of FoXo.

So you see, BOZO is just not just another classic pantomime funnies you just gets a couple of laughs and smiles from, but is a splendid and spectacular work of art where artwork and artwork alone is the medium of conveying the funnies to the audience.

All the Fabulous FoXo needed was his awesome artwork alone to create his fabulous fun funnies.

So it no wonder that these wonderful wordless wonders still come like a fresh fragrant breeze even after so many decades and era later and still brings great joy and sheer cheer to many.

But despite being a great classic of great creative calibre, neither BOZO nor FoXo are much known or remembered these days.

Spread the word, friends, so that BOZO can spread more joy and cheer to many more!

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And it such a shame that some strips in between is missing despite FoXo’s son and our friend here Mr. Michael Reardon had submitted them for publication. As he mentioned yesterday the three missing strips supposed to go yesterday were of the new years that year and were some of the best of FoXo. I hope we get to see them.

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And now, to get to today’s takes.

1. Bozo want most accurate location for signboard.

2. Holy ship! How that get in there?!!

3. It yer lucky day, Bozo. Enjoys!

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And yes, yes of course…

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1. I think Bozo’s been skating on thin ice for years.

2. Maybe that water is a little bad.

3. Throw down another coin, maybe it will turn into a ten!

3. Dig down and find who had $5 in their pocket.

Bozo has a job (among many others) that’s the same as the only job held by Andy Capp. Sign painter.

1) THIN ICE: Bozo putting a sign up runs into the very problem he is bringing a sign for. “Thin Ice” and falls right into it like a clutz!

2) SHIP IN THE WATERBOTTLE: Water bottle delivery gives Bozo an idea. Somehow, he puts a masted ship into a full water bottle for the machine!

3) MONEY CHANGER: Bozo drops a dime and finds a dollar. Should he drop a silver dollar?