Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for September 30, 2023

Better be careful, Jeff—you might cause a real furor.

Surprised he doesn’t get strung up!

Depends on the neighborhood … I have been told that during “The Great War” I had a distant relative who sold bonds for the Kaiser there in an area of Buffalo NY that English was rarely heard at that time.

You hardly ever see a Hitler reference in the comics these days. (For that, you usually have to go to the political news.)

Update to Putin.

I’m going to guess late 1930s, before the war. I don’t think anyone would have found a Hitler reference funny during the war.

Wow. Just… wow.

“Bozo,” a classic comic now on GoComics, fought the N@zis and the Imperial Japanese weekly within the pages of the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch during the four World War II years. Foxo Reardon (Dad), the strip’s creator, was that paper’s first editorial, humor, sports and news cartoonist from 192i until Bozo was Internationally syndicated by the Chicago Sun-Times in late 1945. Several strips show Hitler getting his just deserts. The comic strip appeared in the Stars and Stripes, the newspaper of the United States Armed Forces, and was very popular with our men and women in uniform. Those World War Bozo strips can be found in my published book, “Whistling Down the Halls, the Times and Cartoons of America’s Original Pantomime Comic Strip.,” available online from many sources.

I wonder what’s the original publication date of this strip.

Mmmmmm, ,let’s see, whose name could we call in 2023 ?

Strange comic, even if old. Do better yelling free food. Then charge for a bunch and give one small banana free.