Beauregard! Is a Comic Strip Jack Davis Created in 1961. the Setting Was the Civil War, a Favorite Subject of Southerner Davis. Never Syndicated, It Was Handled Briefly For Four Months By the McClure Syndicate, Which Dropped It After Discovering That Northern Newspapers Did Not Consider the Civil War To Be a Joking Matter. Davis Later Ran the Strips As a Feature In Help! And Sick, Where It Was Call Bo Rearguard. the Name Beauregard Is From JackS Favorite Confederate General During the Civil War. Above the Inside Door To JackS Studio in Hartsdale, Ny, Hung an Old Engraved Image of His General. It Was the Northern Papers That DidnT Like the Subject Matter. in 1963, Jack Redrew the Strip To Look More Friendly And All the Art Was Rendered in Brush Only. the Art IM Putting in Auction Is One of the Redrawn Pieces of Art.
Henry Formhals - Joe Jinks 9/8/1946 Original Sunday Page Art Henry Formhals Assisted Mel Blosser On 'Freckles And His Friends' From 1933 To 1965. He Eventually Continued the Comic Completely Until 1971. Between 1946 And 1953, He Also Worked on the 'Joe Jinks' Strip. in Addition, He Assisted Charlie Plumb On the 'Ella Cinders' Sunday Page. . Vic Forsythe Started Joe Jinks in 1918 As a Strip About Cars. Henry Formhals Took Over in 1946 And Carried It To Its End in 1953. Carol Is a Good Example of What Was Considered a Typical Teenage Girl of That Time. It Looks Leisurely, But Must Have Involved Frantic Movement. in a Conversation Lasting One Or Two Minutes At the Most: