Fully retired but Professor Emeritus at the Emily Carr University Of Art And Design.
Bushmiller’s drawing of Sluggo’s hovering hat with the three stars, Sluggo, also airborne (like the hat) and the mechanical punching glove in panel #3 is a very impressive drawing!
Could be a Fedora but I’m going with Pork Pie hat given the narrow brim.
I suppose that Ernie Bushmiller heard of a third grader wearing a Fedora at one time or another.
I’ve been in Bars that appeared to match panel #11 of this strip.
I’ve had a “what-the-!&*?” moment while I examined the treatment of the head of the figure on the lower right side of panel #1.
The profile of the figure’s face looks like some kind of rubbery mask to me.
The entire goings on with the graphic (nonverbal) stuff on the figure on the lower right side of panel #1 baffle me.
For me, on the lower right area beneath the figure’s skull and blonde wavy hair, appears to represent part of a block of cartoon/comic strip cheese.
That area of panel #1 looks like an attack of mediocre surreallism.
So cartoon furniture created via cartoon defacation for unique defacation furnitures?
I like the suspenders Sam is wearing for his trousers.
Why can’t Gocomics just obtain a license for the original Chester Gould comic strips?
This strip exposes us to some of Sluggo’s sense of humour, which sometimes, for me, presents to us the ‘cute’ side of Sluggo.
I always enjoy Ernie’s strips that show how bureaucracy and bureaucracies alienate and fail children.
Bushmiller’s drawing of Sluggo’s hovering hat with the three stars, Sluggo, also airborne (like the hat) and the mechanical punching glove in panel #3 is a very impressive drawing!