Bozo by Foxo Reardon for March 08, 2022

1 Laundry day again and nothing to wear.

2 Bozo could use an updraft.

3 Nice to get advanced warning on occasion.

1. Bozo got only one pair o clothes.

2. Now Showing : The attack of the killer kites.

3. Got to be looking good before dames.

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Such a joy to read these joyful comics, the best drawn best funnies ever. Three cheers, a big thumbs up, and big applause for this magnificent masterpiece by the marvellous master cartoonist FoXo Reardon, the most pleasant picturesque pantomime, the ever entertaining ever energetic evergreen entertainer BOZO!

1) We’re glad it wasn’t clear plastic. 2) Next time try a box-kite. 3) Hellooooo nurse.

1. Back when they used to use brown paper. 2. I’ve that happen. 3. She makes a difference just by her presence.

Outta sight. Sad flight. Just right. Just because I’m sick it doesn’t mean I want to look bad.

A medical professional making a house call? THAT I find hard to believe.

1. At least Bozo didn’t go out naked.

2. What goes up must come down.

3. Take another cigar and call her in the morning.

1) Donning sackcloth and giving up the clothes on his back

2) Kite weather, my eye!

3) An appointment or a date? (Or both!)

1) CLEAN AND PRESS: Bozo takes his clothes to be cleaned and pressed and walks out wearing the opaque clothes shroud.

2) KITE TO THE HEAD: On a windy day Bozo flies a kite then a down draft makes the kite boot him in the head just missing his eye.

3) LOOKING YOUR BEST FOR THE NURSE: Bozo gets a call and hurriedly shaves and so he is presentable as a patient to the lovely lady.

Dad got regular visits while he lived with my sister. It lasted long enough that nobody made a particular effort to straighten the place up for the hospice nurse who came by.

(Before anyone asks, he went into a home, and he’s still doing about the same a couple of years later. They have equipment to pick him up quickly when he falls, and my sister couldn’t have gotten him off the floor.)

In the first strip, I’m not sure what’s going on. I presume the clothes bag in panel 3 is empty, otherwise he could have worn whatever is in it when he returned with his current set of clothes. Or, if the shop had a place to change, he could have changed into the bag right there and left his clothes to be cleaned. As a joke it’s a bit of a stretch, but still fun to wonder about because Bozo is always entertaining.

#2\ When the string goes slack, you’d better get back.

#3\ In the movies her first line would be, “You don’t look sick to me!”

1. A garment bag does not make the man, Bozo! 2. If this was a “Peanuts” cartoon, Bozo, beware the kite-eating tree! 3. Bozo is a hypochondriac.