Ranger Smith laments that he can’t get away from Yogi for a single day. Well, actually, Mr. Ranger, you got away from him for three whole weeks 50 years ago this month. Smith appears only in the first of four weekend Yogi newspaper comics.
The September 5th comic is a lovely scan of the complete comic from somewhere on the internet. The others are from lousy newspaper scans from several different papers. I suspect they’re all missing one small frame in the top row. I would encourage you again to go to Mark Kausler’s site to see these comics in full colour he snipped from newspapers way-back-when.
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Yogi is smarter-than-average in the September 5th edition. Very nice expressions.
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Yogi decides to joy-ride two weeks in a row. He’s far more destructive in this September 12th comic than he was in, say, the cartoon Scooter Looter. The composition is great; I wish this comic wasn’t so fuzzy so you could see the use of space in the layouts better. The writer spares us a rhyme in this.
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“Tyke” and “dike”? Yike! The rhymes are back on September 19th. Did the writer resist the temptation to put Peter Potamus in the balloon?
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Food over Cindy? That’s tellin’ her, Yogi. Again, nice composition in the opening panel of the September 26th with lots going on but no clutter. Note the cute squirrel in the first panel. Yogi has some more neat poses here, including a skip-walk in the top row and a stroll in the bottom one. I like the variety in the of his hands (paws) as well. Boo Boo gets this comic off, but we get other woodland creatures and the native stereotypes. My favourite character is the dog with the feathers in the first panel, second row. He doesn’t look like he’s excited to go to a party.
The stereotypes stick around next month. Please stick around for more comics in four weeks.
The September 5th comic is a lovely scan of the complete comic from somewhere on the internet. The others are from lousy newspaper scans from several different papers. I suspect they’re all missing one small frame in the top row. I would encourage you again to go to Mark Kausler’s site to see these comics in full colour he snipped from newspapers way-back-when.
Yogi is smarter-than-average in the September 5th edition. Very nice expressions.
Yogi decides to joy-ride two weeks in a row. He’s far more destructive in this September 12th comic than he was in, say, the cartoon Scooter Looter. The composition is great; I wish this comic wasn’t so fuzzy so you could see the use of space in the layouts better. The writer spares us a rhyme in this.
“Tyke” and “dike”? Yike! The rhymes are back on September 19th. Did the writer resist the temptation to put Peter Potamus in the balloon?
Food over Cindy? That’s tellin’ her, Yogi. Again, nice composition in the opening panel of the September 26th with lots going on but no clutter. Note the cute squirrel in the first panel. Yogi has some more neat poses here, including a skip-walk in the top row and a stroll in the bottom one. I like the variety in the of his hands (paws) as well. Boo Boo gets this comic off, but we get other woodland creatures and the native stereotypes. My favourite character is the dog with the feathers in the first panel, second row. He doesn’t look like he’s excited to go to a party.
The stereotypes stick around next month. Please stick around for more comics in four weeks.