And this is what so often makes Skippy—and his ilk in comic strips—so wonderfully valuable: innocence to an astonishing degree. (Not that Skippy would ever win the never-been-naughty award!)
Oh! Just yesterday I read the chapter in “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York”——about how Robert Moses, only out of sheer, hateful, spiteful and meaningless revenge, had Castle Clinton’s aquarium torn down. He would have had the fort torn down too, using his made-up excuse that the eight-foot-thick walls were in danger of collapsing. But others saved it, knowing that its history is precious to New York. The aquarium had been free, and it always attracted many, many visitors. They loved it. But Robert Moses loved power instead, and he wanted revenge.
You see, Graham Harrop drew it . .