Bozo by Foxo Reardon for January 19, 2024

1. Bozo’s HOA complained about the snow, then they complained about the grass. Next, the HOA will complain about his grass being too short.

2. Maybe that tree didn’t want to be chopped down.

3. Bozo not smart enough for a pipe.

1•~ Lesson learned: Always mow before the snow.

2•~ Bozo, spare that tree; it has its own defenses.

3•~ To look smart you have to be smart, and the pipe won’t help. [I did the same thing once]

3 – Maybe try that look again on March 17th, Bozo.

1. Glutton for punishment.

2. Just dessert.

3. Don’t chew your pipe, chew tobacco.

1 Bozo decides to rush the season. (It Might As Well Be Spring — State Fair — Rodgers & Hammerstein)

2 Bozo got a late start looking for firewood this year. (Tales Of The Vienna Woods — Johann Strauss)

3 Umbrella Guy seems to be being chased by a determined lady with a rolling pin. (Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife — Glen Campbell)

1) A touch of Summer in Winter ☺ – Hi, Fuzzy ☂️❤️

2) Tree sending a clear message. – Fuzzy ☂️❤️ enjoying a walk in fresh snow

3) Bozo, you are a cigar man! ⭐ – Fuzzy ☂️❤️, what did you do to upset the Lady? Lady, leave him alone!

1. When it lawndry time it lawndry time.

2. It snow time to cuts a tree.

3. Our good ol Pipe Tobacco would loves this one. Hope he doin well n good.

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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. Bozo has a job to do. He shovels heavy snow. Sees there is more work to do and thus begins to mow.

2. Bozo needs some fire wood. He grabs his trusty blade. Creates a little avalanche. By snow he is waylaid.

3. Smoke a pipe! Look smart they say. Who do “they” think they’re joking? To look as smart as Einstein one need simply give up smoking.

After having appeared in the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch on a weekly basis from as early as 1923, Bozo was accepted for international syndication by the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate (Field Enterprises) in late 1945 and within six weeks was appearing daily in twenty newspapers and over 2,300,000 households on two continents. Bozo went on to appear in dailies in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and many others throughout the world. It was particularly popular in France and Japan. A survey of readers later taken by the syndicate found it to be its most popular comic. Foxo Reardon had sought syndication many times for the strip over the years. But that was during the Great Depression, which had followed a paper shortage and then the war years. At war’s end in 1945, those obstacles were removed.

The above words are taken from my book, “Whistling Down the Halls -The Times and Cartoons of America’s Original Pantomime Comic Strop Artist.” The 260-page book, which contains some 800 cartoons, including some 500 syndicated Bozo strips by Foxo Reardon, is available online from Walmart, Books A Million, Barnes and Nobel, Amazon, Bear Manor Media (its Publisher) and other Internet outlets. The publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, on the book’s publication, referred to it as “An absolute delight.” If you order it, I can almost guarantee that you will not be disappointed. And many thanks if you do. {Michael Reardon, son of the cartoonist and producer of Bozo on GoComics.}

Am I the only one seeing that yellow tone to today’s Bozo ? I like the duo-tone effect .

“Troublesome snow” – after the week I had this week with snow this one cheered me up .

3. Old habits- hard to break. Good Lord, what mess has Fuzzy got himself into. Run Fuzzy Run. (Fuzzy in another triple play showing today)

1. Lawn labor.

2. Tree revenge.

3. Mangled meerschaum.

1) When Bozo sets out to do a job, he stays on it until the last blade is cut.

2) Too bad Bozo didn’t bring his shovel to unbury himself.

3) Let’s face it, Bozo, you’re not the pipe-smoking type.

TROUBLESOME SNOW- Our Hero is in a yard work day, from snow to grass, Bozo is making his neighbors go crazy. SNOW BOUND- Our Mighty Mite just can’t be still, trying to chop down a tree, only to be buried in the snow, everyone is wondering what is going on with this Mighty Mite. CIGAR CHEWER- Reminds me of a buddy of mine, he tried to quit smoking cigarettes by smoking a pipe. He never could keep the pipe lit, which made him frustrated and hard to be around…..we were begging him to take back the cigarettes, causing he was driving us crazy. (Finally he and I both quit smoking.)

1) Can’t Hardly Wait – The Replacements 2) A Day in the Life of a Tree – The Beach Boys 3) Pipes of Peace – Paul McCartney

1. Shudda done b4 sno…

2. Treevalanche…

3. Pipe tobacco bite; pipe stem bitten…

Have shoveled the lawn on behalf of our dachshunds.

Apologies for the washed out appearance in the three strips today. The three next Monday will be the same, but that will be all. Apparently a computer glitch or error in copying.

The Grand Hero, Umbrella Man: Is in 2nd strip in the last panel. He is very angry that Bozo is attempting to cut down a harmless tree.

The umbrella-ster is being chased by some woman he has offended