Bozo by Foxo Reardon for July 29, 2024

1. Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! Wrong hat! (Credit to Rocky and Bullwinkle)

2. Maybe he needed a sign for his umbrella shop.

3. As to Bozo’s troubles; when it rains, it pours.

1• Now we know what made the rabbit jump out of the hat!

2• It’s sad, some people just have a compulsion to buy at a sale.

3• Bozo and the flatfoot reenacting the old “April in Paris” film.

1 – Isn’t this how “Chad Gadya” starts?

1. See? See? Me was tolds ya BOZO gonna makes Melancholic Moandays into Magical Mondays!

2. The curious case of the umbrella guy.

3. The curious case of the umbrella chase.

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For those who come in late, these fabulous fun funnies was envisioned and executed so beautifully and brilliantly by FoXo Reardon, a true master cartoonist who told his funny tales with his awesome artwork alone, without any of his characters in BOZO ever saying a single word.

An especially excellent epitome of pictures speaking thousand words, BOZO also the most pleasant picturesque pantomime where every panel is like a photograph of a three-dimensional cartoon world of realistic-looking depths and details. Such was his powerful perspective artwork which brought to life a lovely lively world of BOZO!

FoXo a rare combination of both sharp wits and artistic talents which is rarely seen together in the same cartoonist, a true master and professional cartoonist whose work quality speaks for itself and as you can see for yourself BOZO is pure gold coming from a golden era of cartooning!

BOZO is pure gold coming from a golden era of cartooning! More about FoXo and BOZO in the About page.

So no wonder that these wonderful wordless wonders still bring great joy and sheer cheer to many even today.

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 many more!

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And of course another big thumbs up, big applause, and three cheers once again for the marvellous master FoXo’s magnificent masterpiece, the most pleasant picturesque pantomime, the ever entertaining ever energetic ever enjoyable ever excellent evergreen entertainer, the brilliantly beautiful and beautifully brilliant BOZO!

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And yes of course many thankses to Micheal Reardon for bringing Fabulous FoXo’s Brilliant BOZO back for us all!

1. Rabbit habit. Hound found.

2. Fuzzy avails a sign of resales.

3. Chase is on and yet

the boys must not get wet.

1. Rabbit Run?

2. Sold sign.

3. Rain delay.

2) Bozo didn’t even have time to negotiate a price!

3) Now the cop can’t catch Bozo, he got both hands full.

1) Jay Ward sees this strip and thinks, “Hey, I got a good idea for a running gag!”

2) Fuzzy thinks the sign is a work of art!

3) Rain or shine, the chase goes on!

1 two tricks one hat 2 sign only man 3 operation dry crime

MAGIC MAGIC- The Rabit and the Pouchie in the hat, be careful Fuzzy might be next. SOLD- A sale is a sale…Fuzzy needs a sign. INTERRUPTED- Old Buttons is close on the catch, but his Umbrella seems to slow him down.

1. Catch me if you can… 2. Fuzzy got a deal on “For Sale” sign. Two Bits. 3. Flatfoots don’t use Umbrellas but this one is so nice to Bozo.

Bozo was the original pantomime comic strip, a fact never disputed. Later it was promoted as such by the syndicate that accepted it. The oldest documented mention of the generic word “bozo” was, as I learned by my personal contact with the etymology editor of Merriam-Webster, in a Collier’s magazine story in 1920. In that magazine story the word was used once by a boxing manager to describe an opposition prize fighter as “the other bozo.” Foxo Reardon’s Bozo was the first fictional and first documented character to have that name. It appeared decades before Bozo the Clown, a character created in 1946, a year after Foxo Reardon’s Bozo became syndicated. Foxo, in fact, took a word that was practically unknown at the time and transformed it into a household word.

(The above words are taken from my book “Whistling Down the Halls, The Times and Cartoons of America’s Original Pantomime Comic Strip Artist.” The 260 page book is available over the Internet from various sites, such a amazon, Walmart, booksamillion and Barnes and Noble….. Michael Reardon, producer of Bozo on GoComics and son of the late cartoonist.)

1. How did that get in there? :)

1) Abracadabra – Steve Miller Band 2) Shop Around – Captain & Tennille 3) The Rain Came Down – Steve Earle

1 Everybody wants to get into the act. (The Show Must Go On — Three Dog Night)

2 Bozo was just trying to sell the newspaper. (Love For Sale — Billie Holiday)

3 Speaking of ’the show must go on…(Come Rain Or Come Shine — Billie Holiday)

Many thanks to the four new Bozo followers who have joined the Bozo page since yesterday. Great!

1: Bozo the Great?

2: Now what could he need THAT for?

3: Runnin’ in the rain! Just runnin’ in the rain!

1. Truly magical.

2. Fuzzy won’t let Bozo move.

3. I running in the rain…