Month: December 2025
Merry Christmas from Jimmie Acorn
Merry Christmas Readers! In these two episodes of Jimmie Acorn from Children’s Activities Magazine of October and December 1954, Jimmie hitches a ride on the back of Porky the Porcupine and ends up in the city zoo. It’s a big environmental change from the forest of the first chapters, they should have changed the title to “Jimmie Acorn and His Zoo Parade” (apologies to Marlin Perkins). We’ll be doing a New Year’s Eve post very soon with the last Jimmie Acorn story I have. There are a few Children’s Activities mags on-line, but none I could find with Jimmie in them. If any of y’all can discover them, you’ll get a life time subscription to the Catblog as a reward. Stay warm and dry until the next time, Mark and Itza
Jimmie Acorn Packs Up, Mabel Visits Again
December 30, 2025
Childhood Nostalgia, Comic Strips George Herriman
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Mark
Hi Readers, This is our last post of 2025, a chaotic and not very happy year. Let’s hope that 2026 will be much happier. Jimmie Acorn has one last, but incomplete encounter with a zoo elephant named “Pygmy”, a small pachyderm that Jimmie befriends. This episode is from January, 1955. If anybody has access to more Children’s Activities magazines, please let the Catblog know about it. D.D. Degg, who has generously supplied the Catblog with “Now Listen’, Mabel” strips before, now has sent us information about another week of Mabel that ran in the Buffalo Enquirer, 19200119 to 19200124. Jimmie Doozinberry hides behind a disguise to prevent Mabel from discovering his socially lower class position as a “soda squirt” at a drugstore. Allan Holtz in his “American Newspaper Comics” book, says that Mabel ran to 19191218, so these 1920 strips are quite a discovery. Also they ran under the title “Listen Mabel” in the Enquirer, not “Now Listen, Mabel”. It’s a mystery; we don’t know how long this obscure Herriman strip actually ran. Wishing all the readers a Happy New Year!