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Sugar Bear Character Design over the years

Dan Goodsell's recent post about Super Sugar Crisp's Sugar Bear reminded me that my first cartoon influences were all the awesome animated breakfast cereal mascots of the late sixties and early seventies.

Sugar Bear was always one of my favorites (along with Quisp, the Freakies, The Trix Rabbit and Cap'n Crunch), and now Dan has created a photo set of the design evolution of Sugar Bear! There are many diffferent design approaches, and each one of the artists really knew how to draw a cute and appealing cartoon character. Fantastic stuff -- go take look!


PS...Dan Goodsell is also the author of one my all-time favorite cartoon art books, "Krazy Kids' Food"


...and another great website devoted to Cereal Box characters is:

Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide

Solar Plexus - Interplanetary Messenger from WEIRD Comics #2

"Solar Plexus - Interplanetary Messenger" from WEIRD Comics #2 - Fox Publications, May 1939

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This "story" is so weird and inexplicable I just had to share it. I don't know who wrote or drew this (other than "by Jupiter"), and I don't know if there were more than two episodes with this character.

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All I know is that this 2-page bit of weirdness was the only thing that jumped out at me from this whole comic, and got me asking all kinds of questions like: Did this book have an editor? It's just so much fun and loose and insane...it reads like phone doodles!

Nice cover, though!

PS...I found an earlier episode of Solar Plexus - Interplanetary Messenger in WEIRD Comics #1, and I include it below just to satisfy your curiosity. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with the haiku-like hallucination above, and I found it entirely unremarkable...except that it wallows in the pool of utter nonsense as well.

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If anybody out there has any more info on who might've done this, please let me know. In the meantime, enjoy the ride!

For more info on Fox Publications and WEIRD comics, see THIS article at Toonopedia.

Thanks to the mad draftsman for the original scans!

UPDATE: There's LOTS more comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERE

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