Mark Kausler’s CatBlog

Jimmie Acorn Packs Up, Mabel Visits Again

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!