Mister Scribbles

Billy has been reading Eric Ambler, and is meditating on the background story of Smyrna and the war in 1922.  It's no good trying to be courteous with this rabbit, he is off in the world of 'tween war drug smuggling and murder. At first, attempts were made to isolate the blaze. Then, the wind changed, blowing the fire away from the Turkish quarter, and further outbreaks were started by the troops. Soon, the whole city, with the exception of the Turkish quarter and a few houses near the Kassamba railway station, was burning fiercely. The massacre continued with unabated ferocity. A cordon of troops was drawn round the city to keep the refugees within the burning area. The streams of panic-stricken fugitives were shot down pitilessly or driven back into the inferno. The narrow, gutted streets became so choked with corpses that, even had the would-be rescue parties been able to endure the sickening stench that arose, they could not have passed along them. Smyrna was cha...

As I Am, So They Were As They Are, So I Will Be Yeah, right, thinks the bunny.  These clowns got statues.  Better a stone lion in the White Witch's courtyard than a dead rabbit in a hole.  Billy draws on his smoke, and then mumbles- "A hole if I'm lucky". Billy worries about things that don't matter to anyone. Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts. And then again, I have been told Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold; So that I fear they do but bring, Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. Ben Jonson, Death and Love But Billy's time for love is past, and Death is in the future.  The darts of love have led to Hell, the darts of Death will be reprieve.  After that is anyone's guess!

Flamma is about to enter upon his almost certain final fight.  With all his comrades dead or dying, help steps up in the form of a most unlikely creature*.  It is Billy D Bunny, Flamma's cousin and greatest admirer.  Although his first instinct is to send the little guy away, Flamma could use a watchful eye on any opponent with the common goddamn sense to encircle him and attack from behind.  Besides, he would hate to belittle such a magnanimous gesture by refusal.  He needs him. Billy has looked up to and admired his fearsome cousin all his life.  He knows that he will never be as terrible and beautiful as the bloody bunny, just as he knows that he must stay and help.  For the rest of his life he will remember those golden words- "Thanks.  I need you". No medal, no honor, no public recognition of what he will do this day will ever mean more to this small rabbit.  Flamma needed him!  No one has ever needed Billy ...

  10,000 Marines have refused the vaccination.  The administration has given the order that will not be obeyed.  Ten thousand is half a Marine division, one 6th of the Corp's fighting men.  The Corps has less than 24,000 infantry, the raison d'être of it's existence.  (fighting man does not only refer to footsoldier).  Ha ha ha , Semper Fi, muchachos!  I always prayed for an unlawful order so I could shoot my officers.  Those clowns at My Lai had the opportunity of 10 lifetimes and they blew it.  And remember, fellow Jars, Chesty loves you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agua_Carta      

Foxy Bingo.com is an on line Bingo game service out of England. https://youtu.be/TW6OGX8y_0U     https://youtu.be/xGGf-mlHcOk   Foxy is supposed to be hip, handsome, with it, cool.  Anyone with two brain cells to mash together realizes that bingo is a very bad game to try and win with, and that shared across the internet it is nothing but a scam.  Here we see an actor in a shitty fursuit playing up the English fantasy of nudity in the (warm) sun on a beach not made of icy pebbles still slimed with the rotting wreckage of Spanish warships from the days of the white lead painted psychopath queen these pale, spotty, black sock wearing in badly lit pornography kipper addicted people would still worship except she and their empire is now long gone, so they have to look up to a royal family so inbred not a one could lace up their shoes unaided, except perhaps the fat guy who doesn't sweat that likes having sex with children so much. Judging from the extras...

Larry Ivie, Story.  Frank Frazetta, Art.  Creepy #1, November 1964. Archie Goodwin, Story.  Reed Crandall, Art.  Creepy #2, January 1965 Goodwin and Frazetta.  Creepy #2. Archie Goodwin, Story.  Angelo Torres, Art.  Creepy #3, April 1965. The iconic cover.  Frank Frazetta, Creepy #4.  June 1965.

 The Dancing Pig.  Pathé, 1907. https://youtu.be/BU4W858uiGY  The Dancing Pig was a French vaudeville act at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1907 Pathé released a 4-minute film based on this act.  The man dancing in the Pathé film was Mr. Odeo, who had a dancing routine Le Cochon Mondain. From 1906 until the early thirties, he toured the music-halls with this burlesque act.  No one knows his real name.  La Blockette, the title of the sheet music and the name of the piggish polka dance, was also the artistic name of actress and singer Fanny Bloch (1863-1956). This is a bit confusing, as it is perhaps her older sister, comic singer Jeanne Bloch (1858-1916) who by her hefty looks inspired the name of the flabby polka.    Jeanne Bloch http://www.dutempsdescerisesauxfeuillesmortes.net/fiches_bio/bloch_jeanne/bloch_jeanne.htm  : Manasse dansar , the Swedish version of Cincinnati Dancing Pig, a hit for country singer Red Foley. h...

   The foppish, effete Don Diego de la Vega is in actuality the noble and bold swordsman known to the world as Zorro, the Fox, champion of the oppressed Indio and defender of freedom.  Here he puts an end to the cruel and nefarious Captain Ramon, enemy of justice and a friend to Satan.  'The concept that you can possess land is as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea.  En garde, Villain'! Los conejos son jodidamente peligrosos.

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  All right, you have just seen five examples of some of the worst art and writing ever put into a comic strip.  This stuff is so bad many sites are claiming it's the worst strip ever written.  (not true, that honor belongs to Doonesbury).  The only thing missing from Uncle Funny Bunny is the 'flip take', as seen in the example of the amazingly bad Jerry On The Job: Jerry was the creation of Walter Hoban. Funny Bunny doesn't use flip takes, it uses The Rabbit's Stupid Expression. Shocking the monkey. Chumpy attends a school with humans.  This is as obscure a comic as they come, I can find nothing on it or on Jack Pierce.  Uncle Funny Bunny ran in Weekly Reader during the fifties as did -  Abomination.  Loki either has an invisible chair or a horrifying spine condition. I see Weekly Reader was still pushing the concept of desegregation between humans and talking animals as late as '73. I found this postcard from the fifties while trying t...