Bozo by Foxo Reardon for January 04, 2024

1. Bozo in the wrong place at the wrong time.

2. Bozo in the wrong place at the wrong time, again.

3. Bozo in the wrong place at the right time

⓵ No appreciation for the assistance: “Oh Please, I can help my sel el el ~ oh, oh, whoops ~ elf.”

⓶ What’s the problem here? Again, no appreciation for the help offered!

Grocers who stack fruit on a sloping stand with no stop-board at the bottom to prevent this deserve very little sympathy. I see it every day at the supermarket.

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Uh oh, Fuzzy took a fall. That’s a first !

1 Best fail Bozo’s had all week. (Right Place, Wrong Time —Dr John)

2 Looks like today, we do have bananas. (Pick Up The Pieces — Average White Band)

3 Bozo want to show you his policy plan. (There’s No One With Endurance (Like The Man Who Sells Insurance — Frank Crumit)

1. Bozo help ungrateful wretch.

2. Bozo help another ungrateful wretch.

3. Bozo help himself inside.

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Fabulous FoXo no need help of words to make his fabulous funnies.

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!

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 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!

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And yes of course many thanks again to Micheal Reardon for bringing BOZO back for us all!

1. Tremendous catch. Grief he does fetch.

2. Good deed is done. In he is run.

3. Uninvited guest. A stupendous pest.

1) That’s gratitude at its finest ☹️ Good thing the cop didn’t participate at the injustice, as he does in…… 2) Here we go again! ☹️…☺ – Fuzzy ☂️❤️ walking around in both strips.

3) Fuzzy ☂️❤️, my good friend, are you ok? – Grumpy man, how can you resist being so kindly invited in your own house?Smile, for goodness’s sake! And please, be careful with that neck. I think I heard a disquieting “crack” ☺

Details:

⭐ People passing by

⭐ Third panel of strip #3: Man that was watching Fuzzy, with feet clearly showing he was going right, now running left to reach the other side of the fence, and assists Fuzzy ☂️❤️

1. She caught Bozo licking his nana chops and chopped him. 2. Good deed went awry. 3. Please Sir, won’t you come in… and Fuzzy hits a triple today.

1. Catch of the day

2. Good deed punished

3. Do come in.

1) Bozo makes a great catch, but his ensuing pass was blocked.

2) No good deed goes unpunished, indeed.

3) Bozo represents the Hot-Shot Sure-Fire Security System of Walla Walla, Washington and just demonstrated how easy it was to break in to the customer’s place.

1) Save Me – Aimee Mann 2) You Oughta Know – Alanis Morissette 3) Welcome Home – Dusty Springfield

“Slip up” – I wonder what Bozo said to her .

SLIP UP- Our Mighty Mite had nothing to do with the Banna Peel on the street, but this Damsel seems to think Bozo is behind her almost fall. FORBIDEN FRUIT- It seems Bozo is loosing on the fruit on the street, tell it to the Judge. WON’T YOU COME IN? Bozo needs to talk to the gentleman about his car’s warranty about to expire. Meanwhile Ole Fuzzy is taking in the city.

Bozo gets no respect..sometimes it’s discouraging when you’re invisible.

1. The lady is a tramp.

2. No good deed goes unpunished.

3. Fuller Brush salesman.

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 once by a boxing manager to describe an opposition prize fight 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 words are taken from my book, “Whistling Down the Halls -The Times and Cartoons of America’s Original Pantomime Comic Strip Artist.” The 260 page book with some 800 cartoons by Foxo Reatdon is available over the Internet from Walmart, Books A Million, Barnes and Nobel, Amazon, Bear Manor Media, its publisher, and other sites.

1. Banana split

2. False arrest

3. Who lives here anyway?