Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for March 09, 2023

Old joke:

A blind man with a guide dog goes into a store; the man picks up his dog by the tail and starts whirling it around and around. Not sure what to do, an employee goes over to the man and says, “Is there anything I can do for you, sir?” “No, thanks,” says the man, “I’m just looking around.”

That’s Cicero’s Cat. In the comic books of my 60s youth Mutt always had the wife and a son (who looked too much like Jeff) named Cicero, and Cicero’s Cat had his own gag strip pages. First time I’ve seen him in the strip.

Yeah. The first two comics in the Sunday paper were Mutt and Jeff and after the fold Cicero’s cat.

That end does worse.

Little Brat!

But you don’t want what they do do at that end.

Looks a lot like Krazy Kat to me. I wonder if Ignats the mouse is in the brush pile?

Maybe next he’ll try holding a snake like that.

They do have a remarkable talent for forming a u-shape and suddenly the teeth are within reach of your hand, or face, etc.