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1. about 6 hours ago on Bozo

   Created in 1921, “Bozo,” the original pantomime comic strip, was published weekly in the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch from 1925 tho 1945. Bozo fought both the Nazi$ and the Japanese for the four years of World War II and was rewarded with International syndication at war’s end by the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate (Field Enterprises.). The strip was carried by the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquire, the Cincinnati Enquirer and many other papers. It was particularly popular in France and Japan.

   It’s creator, Foxo Reardon, my dad, never held a job title other than that of “cartoonist.” It would not be too much of a stretch to say that he was born with a drawing pen in one hand and a bottle of India ink in the other. Please check out my interview with GoComics by clickling the GoComics Blog below and scrolling down a bit. Also check out “The Daily Cartoonist” and do a search on “Bozo by Foxo” at that website.

   Bozo was also carried by the “Stars and Strips,” the newspaper of the United States Armed Forces and was very popular with our men and women in uniform. A hundred of those wartime strips can be found in my book, “WHISTLING DOWN THE HALLS: The Times and Cartoons of America’s Original Pantomime Comic Strip Artist,” a 260-page book that contains about 800 cartoons by Foxo Reardon, including 500 syndicated Bozo strips. It is available at walmart, amazon, barneandnobel, booksamillion and other Internet outlets. If ordering, please enter the name of Foxo Reardon. And many thanks for ordering and for being a Bozo follower.

2. about 6 hours ago on Bozo

   LOL!

3. about 6 hours ago on Bozo

   I’ve said it many times and will say it again, Gent. No one says it better and more truthfully than you. A million thanks!!

4. 1 day ago on Mutt & Jeff

   If you check out the “Bozo” strip on GoComics, you will find no modernizing. The strip, created in 1925, was internationally syndicated by the Chicago Sun-Times in 1945, and today it is published exactly as it appeared during its ten years of syndication. The strip appears on GoComics Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Michael Reardon, producer of “Bozo” on GoComics and son of the late cartoonist.

5. 2 days ago on Bozo

   Everything HappyDog says is true, Gent. You enrich the Bozo page immeasurably. Can’t thank you enough!!

6. 3 days ago on Bozo

   Your comments and appreciation of the strip make it a pleasure, Gent. Just wish the editors at Andrews McMeel Publishing had a fraction of your interest. And if they do, they certainly don’t show it. They publish books of cartoons of certain comics that draw far fewer of daily comments than Bozo does. In regard to its Wednesday promotions, the strip has been mentioned only once in its three plus years on GoComics, and that was back in July 2021. Can’t thank you enough, Gent!!

7. 3 days ago on Bozo

   As always, many thanks, Gent. No one says it better than you.

8. 5 days ago on Bozo

   LOL

9. 6 days ago on Bozo

   Good analysis and good question!

10. 6 days ago on Bozo

    Thanks. Maybe that is what happened. And many thanks for being a great Bozo follower and friend!