In the days of big Sunday comics sections, many strips spread out over a whole page, and included a “topper strip”: a sort of short subject before the feature. Some cartoonists used them to spin off a character from the main strip (particularly children and cats); some to revive an older idea; some to indulge a wilder brand of fantasy.
For years, Ad Carter drew a rather generic strip called “Just Kids.” He seemed to be having fun with its topper strip, which carried one of the most exuberant titles I know of. This one is from November 21, 1937.
(Posted by Doug Skinner)
2 responses so far ↓
1 Lisa // Jan 31, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Wonderful whale! And I especially like the Chinese laundryman’s reply to Nicodemus’s pidgin English: “very good, sir.”
2 Doug // Jan 31, 2012 at 4:32 pm
There was a Chinese boy in “Just Kids” too; he talked like the other kids.