Here’s another Jimmie Acorn adventure from Children’s Activities of December, 1953. This time Jimmie and Thumpy Rabbit meet Brown Eyes the Fawn and his Mom and Dad, Mother Deer and Big Buck. Just as they are beginning to know the family, Big Buck starts a training course in running and hiding for his son, Brown Eyes, and the whole Deer family disappears into the deep woods. Edith Forbush, the author, teaches the children a lesson about Deer antlers and how they grow. This story should make you all feel cooler with the hot weather coming on this summer. A beloved beach of ours, Crystal Cove, near Newport beach is becoming a victim of Climate change. A horrifying video posted June 12th on Facebook, showed the charming little cottages that line the beach in danger from the rising sea. The entire “front yards” of the cottages are being wiped out by water. My wife Cathy and I have done oil painting and watercolor sketching in Crystal Cove many times. We met the great cartoonist Roger Armstrong there as we painted one day. He took us on a tour of his cottage with a blue roof in Crystal Cove. He had some of his “Napoleon and Uncle Elby” comic strip originals in the cottage. Roger was a great comic book and comic strip artist (Napoleon and Uncle Elby, Ella Cinders, Scamp, Little Lulu, Bugs Bunny and more) who also did beautiful watercolor paintings by “pouring” color on to the paper and then pushing the colors in to shapes. Great man to meet, he also animated for Walter Lantz and Walt Disney.
I am certainly lucky to be alive to post and write on the old Catblog. I and our beloved old 1989 Camry were involved in a “T-Bone” accident in Glendale about a week ago. The Camry was totaled, but I was far enough ahead of the collision in the driver’s seat that I wasn’t physically injured. I don’t remember running a red light at the intersection, but the two guys who hit me are maintaining that I did. I’m thankful that no one died as a result of the crash. I am renting a car while this case is decided by the Insurance companies. So all I can say to you readers is BE CAREFUL! Driving is a hard job, don’t have your iphone turned on in the car, and watch out for traffic coming toward you in the intersections. Be safe, play safe, love and live. Your comics pal, Mark.
Jimmie Acorn Meets the Deer Family
June 16, 2026
Childhood Nostalgia, Comic Strips, Jimmy Acorn and His Forest Friends
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Here’s another Jimmie Acorn adventure from Children’s Activities of December, 1953. This time Jimmie and Thumpy Rabbit meet Brown Eyes the Fawn and his Mom and Dad, Mother Deer and Big Buck. Just as they are beginning to know the family, Big Buck starts a training course in running and hiding for his son, Brown Eyes, and the whole Deer family disappears into the deep woods. Edith Forbush, the author, teaches the children a lesson about Deer antlers and how they grow. This story should make you all feel cooler with the hot weather coming on this summer. A beloved beach of ours, Crystal Cove, near Newport beach is becoming a victim of Climate change. A horrifying video posted June 12th on Facebook, showed the charming little cottages that line the beach in danger from the rising sea. The entire “front yards” of the cottages are being wiped out by water. My wife Cathy and I have done oil painting and watercolor sketching in Crystal Cove many times. We met the great cartoonist Roger Armstrong there as we painted one day. He took us on a tour of his cottage with a blue roof in Crystal Cove. He had some of his “Napoleon and Uncle Elby” comic strip originals in the cottage. Roger was a great comic book and comic strip artist (Napoleon and Uncle Elby, Ella Cinders, Scamp, Little Lulu, Bugs Bunny and more) who also did beautiful watercolor paintings by “pouring” color on to the paper and then pushing the colors in to shapes. Great man to meet, he also animated for Walter Lantz and Walt Disney.
I am certainly lucky to be alive to post and write on the old Catblog. I and our beloved old 1989 Camry were involved in a “T-Bone” accident in Glendale about a week ago. The Camry was totaled, but I was far enough ahead of the collision in the driver’s seat that I wasn’t physically injured. I don’t remember running a red light at the intersection, but the two guys who hit me are maintaining that I did. I’m thankful that no one died as a result of the crash. I am renting a car while this case is decided by the Insurance companies. So all I can say to you readers is BE CAREFUL! Driving is a hard job, don’t have your iphone turned on in the car, and watch out for traffic coming toward you in the intersections. Be safe, play safe, love and live. Your comics pal, Mark.