Bozo by Foxo Reardon for March 29, 2022

1 Bozo brought him down and the retriever retrieved him. Hope he’s in season.

2 Proof baseball is good clean fun.

3 The hat might not have fit but Bozannn having one over the flowers. (Is a giri a female guru?)

2 – It’s one thing to send a player or the manager to the showers… but following him in there, that’s definitely an “Ump Show” move.

1. Uh oh. Run, Bozo. Run!

2. Never ending argument.

3. Nice flowers, yes?!!

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A lovely joy to read these lovely fun comics, the best drawn best funnies me has seen. Of course a big thumbs up, a big applause, and three cheers for the marvellous master FoXo’s magnificent masterpiece, the most pleasant picturesque pantomime, the ever entertaining ever energetic evergreen entertainer BOZO!

I has to say that’s a lovely effect in panel 3 of strip 3 where Bozo and shopkeeper is seen behind the glass, and then in next panel the umbrella guy. FoXo achives this behind the glass effect by simply using a little lighter shades for lines and several parallel diagonal lines for shading for what would instead have been black. Even the shower effect in previous strip is a nice touch.

“Hit and run” – I don’t believe I’ve ever seen someone play fetch with a brick before. I won’t be able to say that again.

“No end” – taking a cold shower didn’t end their passion this time.

1. Uh oh, better start running, Bozo!

2. Let’s take this argument to the showers and discuss it privately.

3. Bozann, I think the hat you have now is just fine. But I’ll still give you the flowers from the other hat.

Ruff day. Tough day. No way. They might could’a used umbrella man in the shower.

3) Women are hard to please…

1) Knock-down, drag-out

2) Extra innings

3) Hat to break it to you

1. Throws a hard brick, brings back a hard head.

2. Both got sent to the showers? That’s gotta be a first.

3. Bozo’s gonna be in more trouble here than he was clocking the cop with a brick.

1. Oh no.

2. Oh no.

3. Oh no.

We established earlier that Foxo made this a pantomime strip so no one would know he couldn’t spell, but this time he might have actually meant “Flower giri” — the social obligation to buy flowers for Bozanne. Apparently that applies only to flowers — there is no hat giri.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giri_(Japanese)

₁⋱ It’s a masonry retriever. But is the cop a Mason?

₂⋱ It looks like they’re both washed up.

₃⋱ The hat, Bozo, I wanted the hat!

1) BRICK DOG: A large mastiff likes going after bricks to fetch. Bozo throws it extra far and the dog drags back a man hit by that brick!

2) BASEBALL ARGUMENT: Bozo gets into an argument with the umpire, and they take it to the showers, still dressed!

3) FLOWERS FOR BOZANN: Bozann is admiring the flower hat in the window. Bozo goes in and just takes the flowers much to Bozann’s frustration!

The Ghost Of Ignatz haunts strip number one.

I wonder if plaid skirts are hard to draw? :)