Boody Rogers.
New to me really.
https:www.linesonpaper.com/about_boody.html
This is one of a number of newspaper strips, that make no logical sense but inhabited a world of their creator own. Basil Wolverton, Joe Palooka, lil Abner. Hugely popular in their time, they don't appeal much today when read in retrospect. Sort of newspaper 'Monty Python' for their time.
The tributes here demonstrate the comic strip category that Boody Rogers inhabits.
[ Fantagraphics.com:
"Bizarre, wacky, weird, wild and sexy - these are just a few of the adjectives that describe the cartooning of Boody Rogers. Before there were underground comics, Boody Rogers dug deep into breaking the rules; before their was low-brow art, Boody created art that hit hard below the brow. Rogers' pen and ink raucousness was wrapped into great stories, beautifully drawn art, and hilarious gags. Fans of Boody Rogers Golden age comic book stories span generations of cartoonists, from Robert Williams to Art Spiegelman to Johnny Ryan. Spiegelman printed Rogerss work in RAW magazine and recently it also appeared in the anthology book Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries (Abrams). Here at last is a single book devoted to this cult comics hero, collecting Rogers's best Sparky Watts, Babe and Dudley stories, as well as much more."]
Just one more of the ever-expanding glories of CB+
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Sparky Watts 1
