Amelia Bedelia, dressed as a mobster, is having a romantic dinner with a man in a Judge’s robes. A Mafia boss is yelling at her: “Hitman Amelia Bedelia! This is not what I meant when I ordered you to ‘Take out the Judge!’”
Two Amelia Bedelias in one week. I’m regressing.
Did I already do this joke?
Yesterday we looked at Richie Rich. Here’s a far less sympathetic portrayal of his class, from about the same time period, from John Stanley’s “Kookie:”
These plutocrats are slumming at a Greenwich Village coffee shop, which is full of beatniks drinking “expresso.” I wish we still had beatniks.
I’ll be back next week, I think, and I’d like you to be here too. Take a minute to draw one of my cartoons and I’ll post it here. Buy my books. Be well and etc.