Monday, July 1, 2019

How to Housebreak Your Dog (Copylore)



The Comics Journal
1 July 2019

A Brief History of Ernie Bushmiller’s Dirtiest Comic Strip
BY Mark Newgarden

[…] As far as scholars have been able to determine, this simple mildly off-color comic strip first appeared in the Dutch Treat Club Yearbook for 1961. […] For whatever reasons "How To Housebreak Your Dog" has screamed “reproduce me” again and again to America for nearly six decades and willing entrepreneurs have readily responded to this call of nature. […]

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A cartoon of unknown date by Roger Testu, who signed his works as “Tetsu.” It appears in Barry Humphries, ed., Bizarre (NY: Bell, 1965), 196.


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