Ah, the nippy chill of winter is in the air! Normally, that means hibernation for the ursine denizens of the forest. But not Yogi Bear.
Three of the four comics published in weekend newspapers 50 years ago this month involve snow and cold. Boo Boo makes a reappearance finally after a number of weeks off.
Two of the sources I was using for these Yogi comics don’t have Sunday editions on-line after 1967. So you’ll have to deal with not-so-good copies from Google News (the Flintstones are even more difficult to find readable versions with even two columns). Richard Holliss supplied the colour comic from his archive.
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Chuckle, chuckle. Art Linkletter knew it. Kids say the darndest things! Yogi learns that in the January 7th comic. There are birdies in the tree branch in the second panel. They didn’t fly south for the winter. Ranger Smith’s jeep has a license number of “3400.” What was the address of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio again?
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Why is Yogi complaining in the January 14th comic? He got his food, didn’t he? Hey bear, wait for it to thaw, then say hurrah. The use of space in the Yogi silhouette panel (second row) is very good. Apparently some evergreen trees are so hot, they keep the snow off.
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After reading the January 21st comic, I wonder what it is Yogi was trying to win. (I’d ask where he got the horse, but we’ll just accept that). The horse is very proud in the final panel.
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Flipped panels were used sparingly in the Yogi comics, but there’s one to communicate the punch line in the January 28th comic. He’s waving his large butt around in the middle panel, third row. There’s only one rhyme and Yogi stretches it out over two panels (the first two). And we have those southern-hating birds on a snowy branch again in this comic (second panel).
We’ll have a bigger percentage of colour Yogis next month.
Three of the four comics published in weekend newspapers 50 years ago this month involve snow and cold. Boo Boo makes a reappearance finally after a number of weeks off.
Two of the sources I was using for these Yogi comics don’t have Sunday editions on-line after 1967. So you’ll have to deal with not-so-good copies from Google News (the Flintstones are even more difficult to find readable versions with even two columns). Richard Holliss supplied the colour comic from his archive.
Chuckle, chuckle. Art Linkletter knew it. Kids say the darndest things! Yogi learns that in the January 7th comic. There are birdies in the tree branch in the second panel. They didn’t fly south for the winter. Ranger Smith’s jeep has a license number of “3400.” What was the address of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio again?
Why is Yogi complaining in the January 14th comic? He got his food, didn’t he? Hey bear, wait for it to thaw, then say hurrah. The use of space in the Yogi silhouette panel (second row) is very good. Apparently some evergreen trees are so hot, they keep the snow off.
After reading the January 21st comic, I wonder what it is Yogi was trying to win. (I’d ask where he got the horse, but we’ll just accept that). The horse is very proud in the final panel.
Flipped panels were used sparingly in the Yogi comics, but there’s one to communicate the punch line in the January 28th comic. He’s waving his large butt around in the middle panel, third row. There’s only one rhyme and Yogi stretches it out over two panels (the first two). And we have those southern-hating birds on a snowy branch again in this comic (second panel).
We’ll have a bigger percentage of colour Yogis next month.