They are certainly well drawn and I like the how-to-make-cartoons panel.
This is only a smattering of them. The series went into the end of October with a prolonged story about Bosko going big-game hunting in Africa and meeting with some cannibals. These are from May 6, 13, 20, 27, 30, June 4, 10 and 15, 1934.
Next Oct. 8, 9, 10, 17, 22, 24, 26, 29, 30 and 31.
And Nov. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 and 16.
These are terrific! I'll bet they inspired a lot of budding young cartoonists. I wonder who composed the rhyming verse? Apart from a tendency to scan diphthongs as two syllables, it's really quite well written!
ReplyDeletePaul, Devon Baxter told me today that Bill Hanna wrote them and Bob Allen drew them.
DeleteWOW! I never knew these existed. Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteAccording to a recent YouTube video, Bosko is a racist character created solely in the blackface minstrel tradition. Interesting thing about these YouTube documentaries: the descriptions say they welcome comments, but anything said to the contrary (such as in this case Bosko is typical of the standard template for animated characters at the time: strip Bosko, take away his ears--which are white, by the way; they'd be black in blackface--give him pointy black ears and a tail, and you have Felix the Cat) is met with virulent and often hostile disfavor.
ReplyDeleteStill bitter about getting banned from Jerry Beck’s website, eh, Hans?
DeleteHans got banned? Good riddance.
DeleteAnyway please stop talking about this subject Hans. Debates like racism (and other oftentimes debated things that are commonly featured in cartoons) is the dead horse that'll never stop being beaten.
See what I mean, folks? But stop talking about what subject, Mejo, the motivation behind the creation and development of animated characters nearly a century ago (presumed or informed by what's been written or said by the creators themselves) or what YouTube videos have to say about the creation and development of animated characters nearly a century ago? If you mean racism itself, particularly as it's so often said these days to pertain to 20th century entertainment, I couldn't agree more. That was kind of the point of my comment, which I apologize for its having upset you and Anonymous.
DeleteMy friend, this is just a post about the Bosko comic strip. At no point does Yowp talk about racism whatsoever. Maybe you should stop bringing up political/social issues Hans when the situation doesn't call for it.
DeleteIncidentally, for those who want to see the Bosko Shipwrecked storyline play out in it's entirety, Jerry Beck posted the entirety of it many years ago: https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-bosko-comic-strip-part-1 https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-bosko-comic-strip-part-2 https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-bosko-comic-strip-part-3
ReplyDeletePoint well taken, Mejo. It's difficult, though, to avoid that kind of thing these days: you've probably read that some professor has decided that "Lion King" promotes white supremacy. The drawing lessons at the bottom of these strips made me think of that YouTube video that refused to acknowledge any other consideration in the creation of Bosko other than racial, that's all. Okay, I'm stopping now. There, I stopped.
ReplyDeleteI grant and agree that it's tedious to bring politics and/or race into everything, but there's no reason whatsoever for personal remarks like, oh, say, "Good riddance," which is on the rude side. And to answer Anonymous' question, no, I'm not "still bitter"--or ever was--about being banished from Jerry Beck's blog, which I still enjoy reading. Besides, if I cared enough, I could always post under another name and another email address.