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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Captain And The Kids

Captain And The Kids by Rudolph Dirks, 1938

4 comments:

Jason said...

That's just, kinda wierd. The grammar alone is killing me.

It's an interesting window to the past. Days when cocaine was still a prime ingredient of Coca-Cola.

Spencer Carnage said...

The dialogue is written with a German accent, which Dirks used intentionally because he thought it made the strips funnier. Once you adjust to what they're saying, its a hilarious strip.

Plus, I love ducks, which always gets extra points with me.

Jason said...

I got that they were speaking in an accent. It just took me a few read-throughs before I got the joke. I have the attention span of a gnat, so anything more than a three panel strip kills my brain.

Spencer Carnage said...

I know how you feel. Reading all these weird, little strips from the early 1900s is definitely challenging, especially as a good number of them are pretty bad. However, some of them are very rewarding.