Dummo Mouse and Friends: The Intro

After a short time on the East Coast, my older brother moved to Texas where he got married and messed around with several comic strip ideas as he worked and took care of his kids (short version). This was back in the early 1980s when four-panel comic strips were a big deal, and cartoonists had to get syndicated in order to get published regionally/nationally in newspapers (please don’t make me explain what newspapers were).

My brother’s dream was to be a syndicated cartoonist, and throughout the 1980s he worked on several comic strip ideas while he also juggled work and family. My favorite of these strips was Dummo Mouse. This isn’t the first Dummo Mouse comic strip that my brother drew, but it’s a good introduction.

By the way, my older brother is still alive and well. I just used the past tense when it comes to cartooning because he doesn’t draw that much anymore. Maybe he’ll pick things up again. We’ll see.

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Come back next Sunday for more Dummo Mouse and Friends!

And to read my older brother’s long-lost 1979 comic strip, start here at The Lost Adventures of “Calloway the Castaway” Episode 1!