Howdy Folks, Here’s the Felix strip from 12-4 to 12-17-1932. Felix is settling in to the Dooit home in the dailies, which results in gags featuring Felix trying to keep his status as the Dooits’ house cat. The 12-5 was a timely joke as FDR was planning on taking the USA off the monetary gold standard and finally accomplished this on 4-20-1933. Look at poor Felix in the last panel of the 12-8. He is really thrashed from his fall down the steps trying to save Mrs. Dooit’s thousand year old vase. He looks so wacky with his scars and right arm in a sling, that he seems like a different character. The cat in the “Laura” topper for 12-11-1932 looks like a cross between Felix and Krazy Kat, minus Krazy’s neck ribbon. In the 12-13, Felix confuses a mailbox with a fire alarm box, which have all but disappeared in our age of i-phones. Felix goes into frenzy looking for the Venus De Milo’s arms in the 12-16. The gag is predicated on the cat’s fear that he will lose his home for any mistake, even an artistic one. The Doctor in the 12-17 recommends that Felix get “the Air”, meaning he should be thrown out of the Dooits’ home. Felix has labor trouble with a group of window washers in the Sunday page of 12-13-1932, he just wants them to clean a pair of spectacles. Check back soon for the concluding chapter of Felix’s Greatest Year, 1932! Our header this time is once again by my favorite cartoonist and artist, Cathy Hill! She thought the old Catblog could use an Easter Seasonal touch, and here it is, “Bunnies and Potatoes”, sprouted Japanese Sweet Potatoes, that is! Mark
Felix and the Dooits
April 8, 2025
Cathy Hill's Comic Art, Comic Strips, Felix the Cat
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Howdy Folks, Here’s the Felix strip from 12-4 to 12-17-1932. Felix is settling in to the Dooit home in the dailies, which results in gags featuring Felix trying to keep his status as the Dooits’ house cat. The 12-5 was a timely joke as FDR was planning on taking the USA off the monetary gold standard and finally accomplished this on 4-20-1933. Look at poor Felix in the last panel of the 12-8. He is really thrashed from his fall down the steps trying to save Mrs. Dooit’s thousand year old vase. He looks so wacky with his scars and right arm in a sling, that he seems like a different character. The cat in the “Laura” topper for 12-11-1932 looks like a cross between Felix and Krazy Kat, minus Krazy’s neck ribbon. In the 12-13, Felix confuses a mailbox with a fire alarm box, which have all but disappeared in our age of i-phones. Felix goes into frenzy looking for the Venus De Milo’s arms in the 12-16. The gag is predicated on the cat’s fear that he will lose his home for any mistake, even an artistic one. The Doctor in the 12-17 recommends that Felix get “the Air”, meaning he should be thrown out of the Dooits’ home. Felix has labor trouble with a group of window washers in the Sunday page of 12-13-1932, he just wants them to clean a pair of spectacles. Check back soon for the concluding chapter of Felix’s Greatest Year, 1932! Our header this time is once again by my favorite cartoonist and artist, Cathy Hill! She thought the old Catblog could use an Easter Seasonal touch, and here it is, “Bunnies and Potatoes”, sprouted Japanese Sweet Potatoes, that is! Mark