Bozo by Foxo Reardon for September 22, 2022

1 Of course Bozo still insists that’s not his dog.

2 Those door-to-door umbrella salesmen are a caution to be sure.

3 Sorry Bozo, looks like you still can’t hit the ball.

1~ Itty bitty butt biter!

2~ Coffee is served!

3~ The Whole Club?

1) Bozo seems very pleased by his little friend’s reaction. Rude person deserved a good pinch in the cheeks.

2) Have this coffee, then we’ll see. :-)

3) Don’t get upset, Bozo. Fuzzy is arriving to have lunch with you. :-)

1. Fatso forgot that only barking doggies seldom bites.

2. Here, maybe you will speaks after having coffee.

3. Bozo finally joins the Bulls eye club.

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For those who come in late, BOZO is wonderful wordless wonders by the less known but tremendously talented FoXo Reardon whose comics still come like a fresh fragrant breeze after so many decades and era has passed.

Epitomes of picture speaking thousand words, BOZO a fun fabulous comic where FoXo not needs his characters to say a single word to tell his funny tales.

And the master of perspective artwork FoXo Reardon always gives full scenes with depth and details which make it more pleasure to read BOZO.

And not forgets to keeps an eye on the mysterious umbrella guy who appears in background, and in very rare cases, in foreground as well.

BOZO never fails to bring me splendid joy and sheer cheer.

But despite being great classic of great creative calibre, neither BOZO nor FoXo is much known or remembered these days.

Spread the word, friends, so that BOZO can spread more joy and cheer to more!

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And yes of course another big thumbs up, big applause, and three cheers once again for the marvellous master cartoonist FoXo’s magnificent masterpiece, the most pleasant picturesque pantomime, the ever entertaining ever energetic ever excellent evergreen entertainer BOZO!

His bite is bigger than his bark…

Oooh mime, got any sugar for that coffee?

Too bad the club made a hole and not the ball…

1) The smallest creatures have the biggest pride.

2) Coffee while you wait?

3) Funny ball trajectory, weird club flight pattern!

1. Retribution

2. Service

3. Fluke

1) It’s not the size of the dog, it’s the size of the bite!

2) I have no idea what you’re supposed to be, so here’s some coffee until we figure it out!

3) Too bad you can’t score the putter reaching the hole!

Wee wolf. Coffee hound. Lucky dog. I used to play golf but I decided I didn’t know how, so I just watch now.

1. He who laughs last, also bites!

2. No calling card? Here, have this really bad cup of coffee.

3. Bozo would be a champ, if this was club tossing.

LAST LAUGH- Bozo thinks he is walking an “ANKLE BITER” but proper name is “Gluteus Maximus Attack Canine!” COFFEE- Seems to be a High Brow Scholar Calling with no Calling Card…but our Hero sends him on his way with a cup of coffee. HOLE IN ONE-Beats the old “Break The Golf Club Over The Knee” routine, or Throw The Club In The Pond!"

2. Service with a smile. :)

1) There’s a bit of a nip in the air today

2) Here for the book club reading today? You’ll need this!

3) Nice english — should have done that with the ball!

In all honesty, I don’t get 2. Is he supposed to be a rabbi? A preacher? Why the coffee? Is there anyone who was alive back then who can shed some light on this lost cultural trope?

1. Mini Pincher 2. Coffee Klatch 3. Golf Gaffe

The exchange below is taken from my interview with GoComics of July 2021. The entire interview can be found on the GoComics Blog.

Why do you want to get the comic back out into the world?

The four saddest words in the English language are “What could have been.” I remember my dad telling my mother that he intended to do Bozo “until at least 75.” He had no intention of retiring. And he intended for the strip to continue regardless. As he once told me, “I might die, but Bozo will not die,” referring to the expectation that another cartoonist would take over Bozo at his passing.

Sadly my father died of cancer at age fifty in 1955, after a two-year battle, and his dream of continuing Bozo for another quarter century came to an end. The syndicate could not find another cartoonist who could sufficiently copy my father’s style, a style developed over a period of 34 years. There was always a loss of newspapers when another artist took over the strip temporarily when he was out sick.

Another odd sixty years went by, and then I discovered GoComics. Those saddest words “What could have been” suddenly became the hopeful words “What might yet be.”

1) LOLLYPOP HAS A BITE: Bozo walking a tiny dog and a big fat guy turns his head like in The Exorcist and laughs. Little doggie has a big bite in that pendulous butt of his for his dark soul!

2) SALUTATIONS & LIBATIONS: Bozo greets the new visitor to the High IQ club and rushes back to give him a steaming cup at the door!

3) GOLF CLUB IN ONE: Golfing, Bozo gets frustrated missing an easy putt, so he throws his club which accidentally lands in the hole he missed!

Lollipop is the name of Judy’s little dog in Gasoline Alley when she was a child.

That head turn I see artists do all the time without comment up to today.

It was not for nothing my sister’s father-in-law named his chihuahua Bruiser.

1. That chihuahua bites.

2. Cream and sugar?

3. D’oh!