Here's a golden age funny-animal comic story by the master of fantasy painting, Frank Frazetta! It feature a scrappy squirrel with a heavy Brooklyn accent named Dodger (From 1890 to 1957, the Dodgers baseball team was located in Brooklyn). | This story comes from the September 1948 issue of Standard-Nedor's Coo Coo Comics.Frazetta often signed his funny animal comics as  "Fritz." You can see his signature at the top right of the first panel. |
Enough appetizers...here are those full-page scans I promised.
Just click on any of the thumbnails below to open up a high-res comic book page!
Okay, so the story isn't that great, but the drawings are gorgeous! Frank Frazetta really knew how to draw dynamic cartoon characters.
| Some of these stories were collected in the "Small Wonders" paperback in 1991. You may be able to find a used copy at Amazon.com |
| Frank Frazetta spent most of the fifties toiling in anonymity as Al Capp's assistant on the Li'l Abner comic strip, but after he got canned for asking for a raise, he got hungry again and started his career as a cover artist for a new genre of paperback books... |
...the sword-and-sorcery reprints of classic pulp fantasy writers like Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, etc. |  |
Wanna see more Frazetta Funny Animal Comics?
 | Click on the Frazetta "Fritz" image to the left for a bunch more Frazetta Funny Animal Comics from the Inspiration Grab-Bag! |
| ...and there's even more Frazetta funny animal comics here at the fantastic ComiCrazys Blog >>> |  |
 | Lambiek.net has a nice article that gives a good history of Frazetta's comic book work. |
...and if you liked Dodger the Squirrel, (aka Dodger de Squoil) both he and his Jaloppa tree are starring in another comic story From Coo-Coo Comics #27. Written by Jack Cosgriff with drawings by Al Hubbard. You can read that one at Nedor-a Day!
