We All Need a Fresh Start

I'm glad Kelly dropped the southern corn dialect long before. 'Mars lies fallow aloft' is a nice line.

A Big Ado About Nothin'

Love the elephant in the boat.

Gangway

An extra segue from the book, not in the noosepapers.

Don't Never Listen to No Turtles

Peanie Brickle

Send in the elephants. Kelly, during this era, had Peanie and some other elephants in the strip quite a lot. It's amazing how he was able to draw such a massive creature in such a compact way. I mean, an elephant in a tree (!) with space left over! 

I'm purposely posting these dailies in a large format. Click on them and revel in the ink hatching. And you can see over there on the right on the tree where the hatch lines don't quite touch is where the extra art wasn't in the daily.

Trouble is Rife

Gag for Sale

In the newspaper strip Churchy doesn't say 'Go to Mars!'