Thanks again Lyons.
The illustration of the cat MARiA on page 15 is genius.Jack Kirby with a Cat! If you've never seen a cat do that you wouldn't believe it's possible, but I can assure you it is.
By dwilt
2 comments. First, "Carlo" looks remarkably like "Napoleon," a dog featured in a newspaper comic beginning in 1932 by Clifford McBride. The Dell Four Color here (/?dlid=38447) has art by Roger Armstrong, but you can still see the resemblance (lots of McBride strips can be found in Famous Funnies).
Second, poor Carlo takes an awful lot of physical abuse in this story. Sure, he gets into a lot of mischief, but humans treat this dog very badly.
By ghmcleod
Thank You
By Robb_K
I love Frost's inking technique, and his artwork in general, including his staging depiction of facial expressions showing all the emotions. I agree that Carlo looks very like Uncle Elbie's Napoleon, only his fur is much messier, so he looks mangy, all the time, like a wild dog. Don't his owners on the farm ever wash and groom him? They certainly abuse him physically (and mentally (as others have mentioned). He seems to be very unappreciated. Usually, farm dogs have jobs for which they've been trained, so they are useful members of the family, and their few natural instincts which cause problems, would be tolerated once or twice, and trained out of them. Having been raised with dogs as part of my family, and always being among them, I find it revolting to see them treated so "inhumanely". But, as an art lover and a lover of high-quality inking this book is a gem in my eyes.
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