Bozo by Foxo Reardon for August 17, 2023

1. I guess that could be an even exchange.

2. Is this the Bozo equivalent of, “Here, Hold My Beer”.

3. Every little bit helps.

⓵ Hey, wait a minute, kid. That’s mine!

⓶ Google “Buster Keaton in Cops”

It’s an 18-minute classic that Bozo can relate to.

⓷ Atta boy, Bozo. Every little bit helps!

1 It’s probably what the kid wants anyhow, right Bozo? (Pass The Biscuits Miranda — Spike Jones)

2 Bozo’s running down the road, tryna lose him his load, got a load of trouble on his mind. ( Running Down A Dream — Tom Petty)

3 Bozo decides to get a head start on washing the windows tomorrow. (The Windows Of The World — Dionne Warwick)

1) Learn to share, kid… and to barter. ☺ – Fuzzy’s running to catch a ride on the roof or the hood of some vehicle ☂♡

2) Bozo probably threw a brick at a cop or put a firecracker in his shoe again… ☺ – Fuzzy ☂♡ is observing the exaggerated manhunt.

3) Water waste? Not on Bozo’s watch! ⭐ – Fuzzy’s admiring the Firemen at work. ☂♡

1. Biscuit fixed it.

2. Billy club attack. Leader of the pack.

3. Leak was sprung. Help he brung.

Awww! Who’s a good boy?

Running in the wrong direction!

Bozo does his part to help!

Good ole days when it was ok to have a dog babysit. Child protection services, bah!

I used to eat dog biscuits s a child.

1) Let the dog and the kid work out a trade.

2) Looks like Bozo picked the wrong place to hide!

3) You can’t say Bozo isn’t doing his best to help the firemen!

1. Fair is fair

2. Fresh pursuit

3. Pitching in

“Change in odds” – Fuzzy has a ringside seat .

1. Doggie take your food eh. Well this will teaches him.

2. Bozo runs into more trouble.

3. Save water. Save planet!

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While all three strips is excellent examples of Fabulous FoXo’s fabulous artwork that brings a three dimensional cartoon world to life, notice the 1st panel of 3rd strip (dated August 20, 1947). This panel features a top-down view, that is, you the observer is at a height, say some first or second floor of opposite building and watching the action happing before and below. This sort of perspective only a truly skilled master can completes.

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! 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 of course another big thumbs up, big applause, and three cheers once again for the marvellous master FoXo’s magnificent masterpiece, the most pleasa

And as you can sees from the dates these above cartoons was exactly 76 years ago, on August of 1947. It no less than a wonder that even after seven decades and more BOZO still entertains so excellently.

1) Bad to the Bone – George Thorogood 2) Chasin’ You – Morgan Wallen 3) Buckets of Rain – Bob Dylan

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 at Merriam-Webster, in a Collier’s magazine story in 1920. In that magazine story the word was used by a boxing manager to describe an opposition prize fighter as “the other bozo.” Foxo Reardon’s Bozo was the first fictional and the 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 is an excerpt from my 260 page book, “Whistling Down the Halls, The Times and Cartoons of America’s Original Pantomime Comic Strip Artist”. The 260 page book is available on many Internet sites. If ordering, please enter the name of Foxo Reardon at the site. And thank you! -Michael Reardon, son of the cartoonist and the producer of Bozo on GoComics.

3) Reminded of the story of an Indian who had only a leaky bucket to fetch water from the village well – so he planted flowers along the path that the leaks would water.

FAIR EXCHANGE- Poochie was happy with the bottle, but when the tyke got the dog treats, something aint right in Poochie world. CHANGE IN ODDS- One thing about Bozo he helps the Police do their exercises! NO WASTE- All hands on deck and waste not water.

1) IMPROVISE BABY HANDLING: Bozo on the move hears a loud baby crying and sees to the need with dog biscuit!

2) WRONG TURN: Trying to escape one cop he zips through a door and a dozen more at the precinct he just ran through have joined the chase!

3) FOR WANT OF A BUCKET: Firefighting ni progress and Bozo finds a hole in a hose. Using a bucket, he fills it with that water and starts helping!