Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for June 24, 2023

F Scott writes the dialogue AND illustrates the strip?!? What a great deal for the publisher!

Should have reached for the Great American Gazpacho instead.

Ah too bad he dies before he finish learning how to draw Doug. His dream remain unfulfilled.

Mr. Gatsby was no Alexander

Panel three. I can’t tell if that is Tricky Dick or Sleepy Ronnie Reagan.

The Late, Great Gatsby

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the gazpacho.

Hmm… I always thought it was more about the Myth of the American Dream and Jake’s desire to achieve it by accumulating the material symbols of success. In high school I knew a guy who argued in class that “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was the interior monologue of a guy deciding whether or not to enter a bordello.