Bigfoot PI

Adventures in cartooning

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Adventures in cartooning

Sasquatch_hunter
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I've never really liked Dagwood. Here's the formula: Dagwood either 1) eats gluttonously at all hours of the day and night, 2) is kicked in the ass by Mr. Dithers, 3) collides with the mailman on his way out the door, 4) inconveniences the other members of his carpool, or 5) sleeps constantly. Yet he's thin as a rake. Does he have some sort of hormonal imbalance? And what's with the secretary-bird haircut?

Meanwhile, Blondie either 1) cooks for him round the clock or 2) somehow manages to run a catering business. Make your own damn pot roast, Bumstead! Ever hear of a slow cooker?

How did they manage to milk this formula from the 1920s onwards? The only concessions to modernity I've ever noted in the strip are jokes about 1) telemarketers or 2) Dagwood being unable to use the Internet.

Needless to say, this is one of my favourite strips.

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