Saturday Solutions - Funny Animal Quizzing

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Anyway... here's the solutions to yesterday's Friday Fun & Games. (If i can post. The connection died again while typing.)

Hurray! After only 4 attempts, i got the images uploaded.
Quick! Post while i can!!

FF&G - FAQ

It's Friday already?
Well, at least i noticed in time for Friday Fun & Games -

As you may well know, i've been rather buried in old Funny Animal comics this week. Since i'm already there anyway, that's our theme this week - the Funny Animal Quiz. (You didn't think i was running a Frequently Asked Questions for Friday Fun & Games, did you?)
These all come from the 1940s since that's where i've been working -

Solutions and sources tomorrow, of course.

'40s Funny Animals On The Fritz

Continuing to run light on words at the moment.
Meanwhile...

One particularly egregious omission in the recently posted incomplete census of 1940s Funny Animals was the artist known as Fritz -

As we can see, Fritz did some beautiful Funny Animal work, with a heaping side dish of fantasy thrown in...

Of course, that should come as no surprise when we see him signing his more well known name - Frank Frazetta -

Frazetta drew at least a dozen Funny Animal strips in 1948 & 1949, and dozens of spot & header illustrations for the postal discount required text pages in those old comics.
If i forget to collect a bunch of those illustrations together for your perusal, feel free to remind me.

page art by Frank Frazetta for Barnyard Comics #s 19 & 22 and Coo Coo Comics #47 (1948, 1949)

T To Frelling Z - It's Over!

EDIT: This series is currently being expanded into a separate website, The 1940s Funny Animalphabet.

At long last, we come to the conclusion of today's serialized 1940s comics Funny Animalphabet -

T:

Tabby

Taxicab Toby

Teddy Bear

The 3 Mouseketeers

(Yep - back in '47, long before the Disney mice & co claimed the name. Art by Ron Santi)

The Cub Reporter

The Dodo and The Frog

(This was a long running strip - what was the reasoning that led to this odd pairing?)

The HepCats

The Raccoon Kids

The Tortoise And The Hare

The Walrus And The Rooster

(Really - at some point, i think they just started using a dartboard or drawing animals from a hat to determine pairings.)

Tick, Tack, and Toe

(JCA = Jason Comics Art Studios)

Tabasco

Tommy an' Kitty

Tommy Turtle

(EC = Ellis Chambers)

Toughy Tomcat and Chester Chipmunk

Trixy, the Magic Monkey

(Not to be confused with Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern.
Martin Naydel was the creator of the Jumble puzzle feature in newspapers (originally called Scramble))

Tubby Pig

Tuck Sedo, the Penguin Playboy

Tuffy Bear

U:

Uncle Pigly

Uncle Walrus and Willie

(VEP = Victor Pazmiño)

Uncle Wiggily

W:

Wacky Duck

Wacky Willie

Waddles

Waldo Wolf and Ferdy Fox

Walrus Whopper

Whacky Quack

Whitey

Whoo-Doodit

Wilbur

Willie the Worm and Sammy the Skunk

Willy Wolf

Winnie Weasel

Wuff the Prairie Dog

Z:

Zany Giraffe

Oh, thank the gods - that's over!
I can sleep now.

But, as regular readers might suspect, we'll be going back to take a closer look at some of these characters in the weeks ahead. If there were some you wanted to see more of, speak up!

art by varioius (1940s)