Dummo Mouse and the Daily Strip

As much as I love reading these Dummo Mouse cartoons from 1982, I’m not sure how my older brother would have maintained this drawing style if he’d had to do this every day.  A lot of his panels are far more detailed than what you’d see in most daily comic strips in the 1980s.  Most comic strip artists use simple lines and no shading and almost no background details.  Some of them even hire gag writers so that that they, the artists, don’t have to think of new ideas every day.

I felt almost let down when I found out that some comic artists don’t write most of their strips.  If that’s the case, then I guess I should lighten up on James Patterson, who doesn’t seem to write a lot of his own books.  Maybe this practice of ghost writing and co-authoring is more widespread than I had originally thought.

At least everything my older brother did was his own stuff.

For more, see Dummo Mouse and Friends: The Intro

and Dummo Mouse and friends: The Second Intro.

Or you can read my older brother’s published comic strips, starting with The Lost Adventures of “Calloway the Castaway” Episode 1!

And come back next week for more Dummo Mouse and Friends!