Felix the Police Cat
Folks, this time up we have Felix the Cat from 1-31 to 2-13-1932. The Sunday pages continue the adventure of Felix’s Ark, which you can see in color in David Gerstein’s book, “Nine Lives To Live”. The dailies have not been collected, and continue the story of “Felix the Police Cat”. Having secured a place for his friend the dog in the police department, Felix catches the Cop Bug himself, and wants to be a great Police Cat and Detective. The art in these strips is just superb, look at the woods background in the last panel of the 2-1 strip as Felix closes in on the Hobo. I also love the detail on the bank door in the second panel of the 2-2 opus. In the 2-4, second panel, Otto shows a real eye for “noir” shadows on the gangsters, and he repeats the motif in subsequent strips. The angularity of Felix’s elbows really comes in to play in the 2-10 strip, as Felix fishes a nickel out of a hobo’s burned-up clothes. There are many more well-designed and staged panels in these comics, look for ’em! You know how to blow them up, don’t you? Just right-click the image and a pop-up menu appears which says, “Open Image in New Tab”. Click on that, and the comics will appear in a new window, just click on it and you will see enlarged panels. Enjoy, everyone.
Chris says:
Hi there –
I’m a big Felix the Cat comic fan and have quite a few Sundays in my collection. I have never seen any dailies fo sale anywhere and was curious where you hunted these all down? Microfilm from newspapers? Then how do you get digital files of them? Thanks in advance for any insight. Regards. Chris.
Mark says:
Hi Chris, I replied to you before, but I guess you didn’t receive it. The Felix dailies come from Newspapers.com, which is a paid site. Most of the Felix dailies are from The Sandusky Register. With the Irfinview program, I can download and save any strips I need.
Good luck to you, and thanks for your comment, Mark
Buddy Hale says:
Hey Markl I have a few questions for you if you don’t mind. Also, cool post! Felix with a strip is certainly strange.
Mark says:
Hi Buddy, Which questions would you like to ask? Thanks for your comment, Mark