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 Hi Readers! I’m experimenting with a little different look to the Krazys and Felixes. I’m joining them together to make a column, like I’ve been doing with the Myrtle strips. Let me know if you like the format. In the Krazy strip from 8-18 to 8-23-41, our Kat adopts a Cuckoo egg and intends to put the offspring in a Cuckoo Clock. The hatch-ling flies away in the 8-19, so the hapless Kat substitutes with a Sparrow, an Owl, an Ostrich and finally himself as the biggest Cuckoo of all.
 In Felix for 10/7 to 10/13/1935, we find Felix still aboard ship, trying to hide Danny’s precious Diamond found on the Ape’s Island from the cut-throat sailors and the Chinese cook. They almost burn the diamond in the stove in the 10/22 but Felix saves it. In the Sunday, Felix is still hanging out with the Professor, who invents a youth serum. When Felix refuses to be a lab animal, the Prof. takes the serum himself and reverts to babyhood. Felix has to babysit him! Otto loved to do stories about chemical formulas and the effects they had on Felix and the denizens of “Messmer land”, such as the story for the cartoon “Germ Mania” in 1927. This one features “Golf Germs”, which cause the Golfer’s mania and “Love Germs”, well, you can guess what they do.
 Myrtle this time is from 5-5 to 5-10-1947. I love the 5/10, especially when Pop eats a spring onion and Myrtle goes out of her way to avoid criticizing his breath, retreating to the top of Pop’s chair with binoculars to read the paper over his shoulder. I also love the long single panel (rare for those days) of 5/9 with Myrtle and Sampson walking their dolls in a baby carriage accompanied by Bingo, Junior and Hyacinth. What a charming drawing with a lot of appeal, a quality rarely achieved in the current vogue for irony and ugliness in comic strips. I hope you enjoyed your comics page for this time.
Yowp says:
Mark, this is a much better look. The size is consistent and the strips are easier to follow. Have you thought of going into layout? (That’s a joke, readers).
You can add a carriage return (or whatever it’s called in computer language) so the text starts beneath the graphics and not flush to the right.
At the bottom of the Felix is a row of cartoon heads. What is that row called? It seems to have vanished as superfluous as newspaper space became at a premium and comics were scrunched onto a page.
joe c says:
LOVE IT! Much easier to click everything and in the proper order with all larger and in one column. I can’t say enough how much I love getting this regular dose of strips from you, but it’s greatly appreciated.
charlie says:
I like this format better–it means less clicking for me. Myrtle has always been a good format to follow–charlie
Mark says:
Hey Guys,
I’m glad you like the new layout, as it’s a lot easier to post than the strip by strip approach. Yowp, I do the “flush to the right” typography arrangement on purpose, I like the way it looks, but I can start the lines anywhere. I don’t know what the row of heads at the bottom (and top and sides) of the Felix Sunday is called. “Borders” I suppose, in 1935, most Sunday newspapers gave a full page to the main strip and the “topper”, in Felix’s case, “Bobby Dazzler” I cut the borders off. I think it makes for a neater looking presentation. Thanks for all your comments!
Mark