I pulled out some random books to find some comedy for today and bumped into one of those cringe-worthy characters of yesteryear. Who wrote or created the character is unknown, but artwork is from one of the Golden Age great cartoonists, Owen Fitzgerald. (If you don't believe me on that valuation, ask Los Bros)
In her debut appearance (unless she was derived from a Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time cartoon from 3 years prior), meet ultimate 'Dumb Blonde' - Miss Nit-Wit Of 1948 (and '49), Moronica -
Nope. Not even going to get into all the messages in that comic. Let's just move along to later in that same issue...
Well... that didn't get much better, did it? At least they took his clothes off instead of hers?
I do love that dejected bear in the background of the final panel.
Just one more, for now...
So... sad mocking of a tired trope? Or brilliant warning against modern consumerism? (Don't strain - it can be both)
I thought that Moronica was just an odd little character that appeared as a back up in a few issues of Starlet O'Hara In Hollywood.
I appear to have been mistaken...
In her debut appearance (unless she was derived from a Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time cartoon from 3 years prior), meet ultimate 'Dumb Blonde' - Miss Nit-Wit Of 1948 (and '49), Moronica -
Nope. Not even going to get into all the messages in that comic. Let's just move along to later in that same issue...
Well... that didn't get much better, did it? At least they took his clothes off instead of hers?
I do love that dejected bear in the background of the final panel.
Just one more, for now...
So... sad mocking of a tired trope? Or brilliant warning against modern consumerism? (Don't strain - it can be both)
I thought that Moronica was just an odd little character that appeared as a back up in a few issues of Starlet O'Hara In Hollywood.
I appear to have been mistaken...
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| (Wait - wasn't she blonde?) |
page art by Owen Fitzgerald and Milt Gross from Starlet O'Hara In Hollywood #s 1 & 2 and The Kilroys #8 (1948, 1949)
