Bozo by Foxo Reardon for April 04, 2023

1~ Past due postage.

2~ Purloined utensils.

3~ Please don’t shoot the bunnies!

1) Office for Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs ☺ Fuzzy is riding in one of his favorite way. ♡

2) ㋛☺

3) Mary Poppins taught several things to Fuzzy… ☺

1 Bozo manages to remember all the steps required for this task, and promises that next time he’ll put them in the right order. (E-bow the Letter—R.E.M.)

2 So much for helping the dishwasher get home early, eh Bozo? ( Scenes From An Italian Restaurant—Billy Joel)

3 Taz hate it when he overshoots the target too, Bozo. (Overkill—Men At Work)

2 – Arguably a better outcome for the restaurateur than being told “Your palm is *dirty.”

3 – There was a day when people didn’t disassociate the main course of a meal from the methods needed to bring it to the table, in present-day times a process that is much, much more “at arm’s length”. Chicago’s Union Stockyards (and all that beef) remained open for a quarter century after this strip originally ran.

(Of course I’m as sentimental as the next guy, so I understand the “d’awwwww… bunny!” reaction as well.)

3. I was once an avid hunter for food. I never hunted after 1984 when I retired from military. Those animals never shot back and I could afford to buy. I still eat deer, rabbit, quail, duck and other game but from my friends. My wife passed Mar 21, 2023. She was a superb chef in the kitchen. Two weeks today and I still feel like I can’t breathe. May the Lord Smile upon her. Mighty big family up there.

1. Postage due

2. Flatware felony

3. Rabbit Run©️ (apologies to John Updike.)

Bozo fixes the problem after he forgot to fix the stamp on the envelope.

Oy vey! It’s no wonder that copper isn’t there to nab Bozo with the goods!

Omg! Head on! ☹️ mean while Fuzzy is leaping off the roof….

1) Now how to pass that mailbox through the bars…

2) How did he find out that I took the silverware!

3) Hop! Hop! Hop! (And Fuzzy hops too)

1) There’s a letter in here without a stamp, sir. And I hope by paying for the stamp here, you’ll forgive me for possibly breaking a federal law.

2) Sorry Tony, I didn’t think you’d notice the silverware.

3) Hold still, wabbit, I’ll need to wewoad!

1) Please Mr. Postman – The Carpenters 2) Been Caught Stealing – Jane’s Addiction 3) Run Little Rabbit – Cab Calloway

1. Hey Mister mail clerk, could you put a stamp on my letter.

2. How’d this silverware get in my pocket?

3. Attack of the killer rabbit!

1. Special delivery. :)

1. Ah the good old days of posting letters.

2. Eh what you means these ain’t comes free with the meal?

3. Ah so it indeed wabbit season eh.

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For those who come in late, these fabulous fun funnies 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!

I know it maybe wrong to tell how TIP & HUNTING remind me of some crazy times. Our Chaplain is always playing jokes on his friends. On TIP, once in a big city, he and his fellow Chaplains were dining at an exclusive restaurant, and the Chaplain helped a brother on with his coat so they could leave….little did the brother know that the Chaplain had put a spoon in the brothers coat pocket. Naturally, the Chaplain told the waiter about the “spoon joke” and the waiter stopped the brother and asked for his spoon back. It was quite funny to all of us, except for the brother who knew who set him up. On HUNTING- My uncle took my brothers and I rabbit hunting when we were all young. Each of us only had a bullet between us, and a rabbit jumped out and my oldest brother took aim, as my Uncle yelled, “remember you only have one bullet, make it count!” My brother fired the rifle and missed the rabbit, dropped the rifle and chased the rabbit across the field, never to catch him. My Uncle was laughing so hard, along with my other brother at our fleet footed brother chased until the rabbit headed into the briars and bushes. (Sorry for the stories….but Bozo brings a lot of memories of those olden days.)

2. See near the ends of The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers for Harpo Marx and stolen silverware – a gag that went back to the Brothers’ vaudeville sketch Home Again.

1) OOPS FORGOT IT!: Bozann sends Bozo on a simple errand. Mail a letter. He mails the envelope and forgets the stamp. Super that he is he pulls out the mail box and crries it with him to get the stamp!

2) TIP, TIP? WHERE IS THE TIP?: After a fine meal the waiter wants a tip. The tip he gets is that Bozo has lifted the silver!

3) FASTER THAN A RUNNING RABBIT: Rabbit hunting and the brown hare is especially quick today. Only metahuman Bozo also has running speed faster than the rabbit!

Well, unhappy Woenesday everyone! No Bozo fix today…