The depths and perspectives in all the three are simply spectacular. Great artwork, I say.
Just look at the elements and peoples placed in the foreground, middle, and backgrounds.
Multiple level depths are aptly depicted. Gives a very three dimensional realistic depth feeling.
1. The table in the front. The child and the dog in the centre. The dog sitting just behind the child. Bozo is behind them. Behind him is a table and the doorway and the outer scenes with the cityscape in the background.
2. Bozo running ahead and the cop behind him. And the fence which is at an angle to the observer. In the next panel, again we the audience sees from an angles perspective which gives the scene a realistic depth with one trash can before and one behind bozo. And the last panel too, with Bozo running in the front and the cops behind him. And the umbrella guy on the pole in the background and the cityscape behind everything. All a great three dimensional depth perspectives.
3. More great perspectives and detailed scene with many people. Presented in a great angle. Just look at the first one, we the audience gets a view from the top angle. The vehicles, the peoples, the buildings, everything has three dimensional depths when we see the scene. Even in other panels top, Bozo in te foreground and people in multiple levels in the background. And then the crowd gathering behind, the smoke, building placements and scene angles.
Everything is depicted so masterfully. It’s such a pleasure to see this comic. Foxo Reardon was undoubtedly a very skilled and masterful artist. A master of depicting realistic three dimensional depth and perspectives on a two dimensional piece of paper.
It’s not easy depicting such perspectives on paper with such accuracy. It’s not easy maintaining the relative sizes of people of different heights and sizes who are standing at different focal points from the audience. Lots of cartoonists fail in depicting proper perspectives and … (continued)
and how many times you get to see a scene from a top angle (like the first panel in third strip), especially in the funnies like this one? Of course there used to be great perspective and very realistic artwork in episodic comics, adventure comics or soaps etc. which all had photographic accuracy. But how many gag a day funnies have depth detailed and accurate perspective artwork in them?
And the facial expressions are very expressive too, which is important in a pantomime comic. This is undoubtedly one of the very best comics ever. A complete package of comic entertainment, even without a word uttered in them.
We were first handed our daughter at a ceremony in Hefei, and quickly realized we had left the formula in our room. Luckily, Emerson (a son in the family next to us) offered us an Arrowroot biscuit to try, and as our new child had a tooth above and a tooth below, she went right to work on it. [Good grief, he’s probably 25 now.]
Yesterday we got the first dog our daughter, now in college, has had. I’m glad to say we are pretty much prepared for him. I’m about to wrap up GoComics for a while and take a brisk walk. I say brisk because he makes my pace faster.
2) Now this one made me laugh out loud, Bozo being chased by the beat cop runs right through a police precinct and now has a trail of police on his tail.
3) A building on fire, the fire fighters are there. Bozo notices a leak and takes advantage of it using a bucket to throw the water on the fire. Good man!
Dirty Dragon over 3 years ago
2 – I knew Bozo should taken that left toin at Albuquerque.
Auntie Clockwise over 3 years ago
2. I adore the Hover Hats in panels #1 and #3.
danketaz Premium Member over 3 years ago
1 That ought to help with the teething pains.
2 Foxo bringing back a Keystone Kop bit.
3 Bozo to the rescue!
Gent over 3 years ago
The depths and perspectives in all the three are simply spectacular. Great artwork, I say.
Just look at the elements and peoples placed in the foreground, middle, and backgrounds.
Multiple level depths are aptly depicted. Gives a very three dimensional realistic depth feeling.
1. The table in the front. The child and the dog in the centre. The dog sitting just behind the child. Bozo is behind them. Behind him is a table and the doorway and the outer scenes with the cityscape in the background.
2. Bozo running ahead and the cop behind him. And the fence which is at an angle to the observer. In the next panel, again we the audience sees from an angles perspective which gives the scene a realistic depth with one trash can before and one behind bozo. And the last panel too, with Bozo running in the front and the cops behind him. And the umbrella guy on the pole in the background and the cityscape behind everything. All a great three dimensional depth perspectives.
3. More great perspectives and detailed scene with many people. Presented in a great angle. Just look at the first one, we the audience gets a view from the top angle. The vehicles, the peoples, the buildings, everything has three dimensional depths when we see the scene. Even in other panels top, Bozo in te foreground and people in multiple levels in the background. And then the crowd gathering behind, the smoke, building placements and scene angles.
Everything is depicted so masterfully. It’s such a pleasure to see this comic. Foxo Reardon was undoubtedly a very skilled and masterful artist. A master of depicting realistic three dimensional depth and perspectives on a two dimensional piece of paper.
It’s not easy depicting such perspectives on paper with such accuracy. It’s not easy maintaining the relative sizes of people of different heights and sizes who are standing at different focal points from the audience. Lots of cartoonists fail in depicting proper perspectives and … (continued)
Gent over 3 years ago
… (continuing) …
and how many times you get to see a scene from a top angle (like the first panel in third strip), especially in the funnies like this one? Of course there used to be great perspective and very realistic artwork in episodic comics, adventure comics or soaps etc. which all had photographic accuracy. But how many gag a day funnies have depth detailed and accurate perspective artwork in them?
And the facial expressions are very expressive too, which is important in a pantomime comic. This is undoubtedly one of the very best comics ever. A complete package of comic entertainment, even without a word uttered in them.
Gent over 3 years ago
1. He steals your milk? Here. You haves his biscuits!
2. Whoops! Wrong building.
3. Bozo the Good Samaritan highlights the importance to Save Water by not wasting water, in 1947 itself.
Kip Williams over 3 years ago
We were first handed our daughter at a ceremony in Hefei, and quickly realized we had left the formula in our room. Luckily, Emerson (a son in the family next to us) offered us an Arrowroot biscuit to try, and as our new child had a tooth above and a tooth below, she went right to work on it. [Good grief, he’s probably 25 now.]
Yesterday we got the first dog our daughter, now in college, has had. I’m glad to say we are pretty much prepared for him. I’m about to wrap up GoComics for a while and take a brisk walk. I say brisk because he makes my pace faster.
Kip Williams over 3 years ago
Hey, at least someone’s taking the heat off Buster Keaton for a few minutes.
Mark Thomas over 3 years ago
1. The kid is just hungry.
2. Just went from bad to worse.
3. Bozo just giving a hand to the firefighters.
Solstice*1947 over 3 years ago
1) Published on my brother’s first birthday, when our family owned a dog, Nappy, who looked just like this one!
2) This could have been avoided had Bozo seen the 1922 movie “Cops.”
3) The arson investigators have noticed that in the back of the crowd at every big fire there is an odd-looking guy with a bumbershoot. Coincidence?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 3 years ago
1) Well he had the right idea anyway.
2) Now this one made me laugh out loud, Bozo being chased by the beat cop runs right through a police precinct and now has a trail of police on his tail.
3) A building on fire, the fire fighters are there. Bozo notices a leak and takes advantage of it using a bucket to throw the water on the fire. Good man!