Bozo by Foxo Reardon for April 07, 2023

Have a nice weekend, Bozo Folks. ♡

1) No time to waste

2) The safe needs that ambulance

3) Bozo has Fuzzy’s picture on the wall. ⭐

1. Dangnabbit candy machine. Umbrella Guy movie already started!

2. Ah me cigar be injured!

3. Whoopsie.

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Has you ever seen such fabulous fun funnies which are drawn so splendidly too? Especially when there be no need of words to tell the funny?

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!

1 Bozo didn’t want to be late for the premiere showing of Umbrella Guy: The Movie. (Science Fiction/Double Feature—Richard O’Brien)

2 Ouch! Bozo bit his tongue. (Free Falling—Tom Petty)

3 So that’s where them things come from. (Hole In The Wall—Bela Fleck and the Flecktones)

1: The Bellboy understands. He lost his money too.

2: Danketaz almost got it; Bozo bit hith tongue!

3: I know a guy who really did that, in his boat! Yes, he put a hole in the bottom!

Think anyone will notice…..?

Looks like his hat needed emergency care…

Bozo just made a home for a meece!

1. Vendible violence.

2. Hardheaded.

3. Mouse mayhem.

1) Consarn it, if you can’t give me my candy, I’ll just rip the dadgum thing off the wall!

2) My head’s OK, but I bit my tongue when the safe fell!

3) Thanks Bozo, the mouse was looking for a new home!

HIS MONEY’S WORTH- Bozo ain’t gonna miss the show…Fuzzy is the leading man! CASUALTY- I think they will have to call the Safe, SAFE! Bozo did bite his tongue on the play! EXIT- The tail tells the tale, Bozo made a “PET DOOR” for the Mouse.

1. Bozo will NOT be ripped off!

2. The big question, how’s the safe?

3. Thanks for the door.

In the first strip, third panel, there is a cigar in his mouth AND one on the floor. Oops.

My father had been working as a professional cartoonist for sixteen years when I was born in 1937. He had worked the last fourteen of those years as a staff cartoonist for the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch, one of the South’s leading newspapers, doing every type of cartooning: news, sports, humor, editorial, and creating a number of regularly published features, as well as working outside sketching assignments at the courts and at crime scenes.

Among his created features was Bozo, the world’s original pantomime comic strip. He created that strip at age 16 in 1921 just after being laid off as sports cartoonist at the Times-Dispatch and before being rehired in 1923.

My father worked afternoon and evening hours at the paper. I was child number six, which meant my bedtime was earlier than that of my older siblings. I remember lying awake in bed alone and afraid in the dark, and the relief I felt when Dad returned home around 9 p.m. or so, his booming voice heard throughout the house as he relayed to my mother all the events of the day at the newspaper. Obviously, any bad guys would be chased off by that voice. And that voice was usually filled with enthusiasm and excitement. So, considering the hours that he worked, he was gone most of the day during my first eight years, but his zest for life had a definite impact on me. His voice reflected all the excitement of the world. So I knew there was a lot going on out there.

(The above is an excerpt from my interview with GoComics. The entire interview can be found in the GoComics Blog below, page 2.)

1) Yummy Yummy Yummy – Ohio Express 2) Tip Of My Tongue – The Tubes 3) Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) – Sly and The Family Stone

1) CHANGE: Bozo uses a change machine that fails to pay up. He’s in a hurry so must yank it off the wall and take it with him!

2) JUST A BUMP: Bozo walking along and a safe hit him in the head! The ambulance comes and is shocked that Bozo is alive, unhurt and angry!!

3) HARD KNOCK MICE: He has heard stories that “the mice here are super” and never believed it till today. He uses his shotgun at point blank range. When the smoke clears the mouse is gone and a new whole gnawed in its placer. Not even a drop of blood!!!

Those mice must be eating super food grown with super techniques from super soil that reaches the Super Market. (Just like Mighty Mouse.)

I think it is a stamp dispenser not a change machine, a staple of old hotel lobbies.

Ho hum, here we go again. :(

Oh no! Two days without Bozo! I’m going to go crazy! Wait a minute, I’m already crazy! Never mind.