Here’s the first Garfield comic strip to feature lasagna, dated 7-15-1978, about a month after the debut of the first strip. Upon reading it, it’s not really that funny. But try to erase your mind of the fact that popular culture has known about Garfield and lasagna for almost 30 years. If this was the first time you saw a cat have a thing for a pasta dish, maybe you’d laugh. I mean, the lasagna thing caught on, right? Garfield readers in the late 1970s musta popped a rib laughing at this stuff. Ha ha, lasagna. Get it? Lasagna! Ha ha ha ha…

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Yo! I introduced the ‘Krazy Kat‘ komic to you yesterday. Here’s another one to wet your whistle with some odd facts about the strip.

Krazy has no specified gender and has been referred to as both male and female throughout the life of the strip. Ignatz the mouse and Officer Pupp have generally been konsidered male.

Strangely koincidental, it was for a while unknown of kartoonist George Herriman’s race. He was a New Orleans Creole man from two mixed-race parents. But during the racially ignorant first half of the 20th century, people just didn’t know what to make of him.

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Today’s komic strip from 2-1-1922 features Ignatz working as an insurance agent. That’s not really his job but he’s writing a policy for the sake of another brick-tossing zinger.

Yo! One of this bird’s faves is George Herriman’s ‘Krazy Kat’ komic strip which ran from 1913 to 1944. The strip focuses on a relationship triangle between Krazy Kat, Ignatz the mouse and Officer Pupp, a dog. Here’s the rundown. Krazy is in love with Ignatz. Ignatz acts as his nemesis by throwing bricks at Krazy which the kat takes as a sign of affection. Officer Pupp tries to keep order by protecting Krazy and often locking Ignatz in jail.

The amazing thing about ‘Krazy Kat’ is that nearly every single komic strip is about Ignatz beaning Krazy’s noggin with a brick. It’s the same freaking gag over and over and over! But each strip plays it out in a new, klever way. It’s brilliant!

Here is a sample from 3-8-1922 with a few interesting things to note. The strip itself for this day has a title (upper right) and the panels are numbered.

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I’ll be bringing you more Krazy komics in the future and discuss other amazing things about this highly unique comic strip.

Yo! I’ve introduced Pogo to you before. This Pogo comic strip is perhaps the most famous of all the work by cartoonist, Walt Kelly. It was done for Earth Day in 1971. I’m not going to talk about this one today. I’ll just let the strip speak for itself. Click it to enlarge and see the amazing artistry.