Bozo by Foxo Reardon for May 23, 2023

3 – A pretty penny earned, and now the view is so much better!

1 Bozo’s in the chips and out one hat. ( I Haven’t Got A Hat—Ham and Ex)

2 Lucky it is that we have a stalwart guardian to watch over the fire as it burns. (Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight—Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians)

3 Try and steal Bozo’s fire? He’s getting his own back. (I Sold My Heart To The Junkman—Dinah Washington)

In the third strip, Fuzzy jumping from roof to roof is adorable! ❣️ Thanks, FoXo! ⭐⭐⭐

1) Look, I’ve just found the hat I needed so badly. Am I lucky or what… – Fuzzy on the roof, maybe waiting to be summoned by a Fuzzy-Signal ♡

2) Why wasting such a nice fire in such a cold night! ☺

3) Now the view is so much better. Bozo will stay for lunch, then will hit the road. ☺

1. That’s a topper!

2. The cop is getting fired.

3. Maybe they’ll reward Bozo if he reports the “theft”.

1. Hobo haberdashery?

2. Hot collar?

3. Steel steal?

1. Well how’d ya likes t-hat!

2. Everything fair in law and war.

3. Average folks buys their way to freedom. Bozo sells to freedom!

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For those who come in late, these wonderful wordless wonders was envisioned and executed so 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! 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 yes, yes 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!

And yes of course many thanks to Micheal Reardon for bringing BOZO back for us all!

Call the copper to retrieve my topper!

Do as I say, not as I do! Wish I had some weenies!

Copper is oblivious to Bozos purchase….bye bye, now!

Fuzzy is sure rising to the occasion…a lofty endeavor!

Hat trick. Smoke signals. Iron mongrel. I wonder if anyone can buy an abandoned prison and live in it like an old missle silo? (Are there any abandoned prisons?)

1) In trying to avoid the line of fire, Bozo ends up giving a bum a new hat!

2) On the bright side, the jail is probably warmer than being outside on a night like that!

3) Bozo might make a profit off selling the jail bars, but he’ll still serve his time!

Target – less . I love the last panel. The classic hobo , tramp , vagabond character that you never see anymore. Red Skelton’s Freddy The Freeloader.

1. Jokes on you Bozo.

2. That wasn’t such a hot idea.

3. The Iron Bar Hotel is more open than before.

Bozo seems to have suffered a reversal of fortune between January 23 and January 24.

1) TOO SMART FOR YOUR OWN GOOD: A passel of street roughians pelting the cop. Bozo has an idea using that old hat trick. Holds the hat up by his cane. He soon loses it to a tall tatterdemalion hobo!

2) POLICE DO UNTO OTHERS: Freezing outside Bozo uses kindling to get warm. O’Flaughrity hauls Bozo to the warm hoosegow. While O’Flaughrity makes a big fire for himself in the cold!

3) IMPROVISATION MASTER: Bozo in his favorite cell sees a truck for scrap iron sells the bars to them for cash!

I know we don’t all get the same ads, but I get ads from JR Cigars on Bozo every day.

Panel 3. I was born and raised on farm. We never ever threw anything away. Nothing was scrap. Everything had a purpose. If not for today 30 years from now. Had place for all “scrap” and someone would need it. Neighbor to family member living in big city who thought it was treasure to them. I left the farm in 1964 to join Air Force and family stopped farming along the way. Small 100 acre farms got engulfed into one or two big farming operations. By time I came back to stay 30 years later, nothing of our buildings/home even existed. Nothing but memory. Scrap piles all buried in holes dug in the dirt and crops growing over them. Modern times waste so much.

I guess Bozo’s still in jail, so he couldn’t be here today.

Target-Less- Ah good to see Bozann and Bozo out having fun. Seems like Fredrick Freeloader is having fun day with the new Top Hat he found. The Heat’s On- Well Ole Buttons gets an award for catching Bozo in the act of arson, but another award is a well lit fire to warm Ole Buttons up on patrol. Business Man- Bozo always seems to come out on top. Jones & Jones luck up on some nice Iron Bars when Bozo sells his Jail House Window Bars for Chump Change. (Sorry “Chump” the Jailor!)

1) Hat Off to (Roy) Harper – Led Zeppelin 2) The Heat Is On – Glenn Frey 3) Iron Man – Black Sabbath