Today I thought I would highlight a whimsical strip called
King Aroo by Jack Kent. This apparently only ran for a couple years in the 1950s, and I only discovered it later when someone wrote an article in
Nemo magazine about lost and forgotten strips.
Visually, this reminds me a bit of
Pogo by Walt Kelly, and in the strip below you'll see a direct homage to George Herriman's
Krazy Kat.
It's great that one can prowl the web these days and find great examples of classic strips like this, especially ones that didn't have along history like
Peanuts or
Pogo. I wonder why it didn't last-- certainly it wasn't a reflection of Kent's artistry or the quality of the strip itself. Maybe it was just a little ahead of its time.
Today I thought I would highlight a whimsical strip called King Aroo by Jack Kent. This apparently only ran for a couple years in the 1950s, and I only discovered it later when someone wrote an article in Nemo magazine about lost and forgotten strips. 
Visually, this reminds me a bit of Pogo by Walt Kelly, and in the strip below you'll see a direct homage to George Herriman's Krazy Kat.
It's great that one can prowl the web these days and find great examples of classic strips like this, especially ones that didn't have along history like Peanuts or Pogo. I wonder why it didn't last-- certainly it wasn't a reflection of Kent's artistry or the quality of the strip itself. Maybe it was just a little ahead of its time.
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