The Daily Weird But True Toon Factoid: Bubble Bursting!
The world’s widest read comic strip isn’t Peanuts or Dilbert-It’s Bubble Gum’s Bazooka Joe! Ironically, Joe’s strip is also the world’s tiniest!
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
Friday, March 14, 2026
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
And also the world’s worst? (Well, I guess so long as the Lockhorns and Love, Always are around, it’ll be unable to take that prize.)
The Longhorns is genius compared to Cathy, in my humble opinion.
Bazooka Joe and his Gang were created anonymously by the cartoonist/illustrator Wesley Morse, a fact most folks who frequent ARF already know. Craig had a nice profile of Morse in his recent CLEAN CARTOONISTS’ DIRTY DRAWINGS book.
The story behind the eyepatch is more than those little legible one-inch square slips of wax paper.
If you’d like to learn more, please feel free to stop by my website. We’re in the process of including a “gallery”, which will occasionally be updated with new images from the collection. These are autobiographical drawings by Wesley Morse, created in 1922-23, each on his personal stationery. They’ve remained unseen for 70 years.
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I should say that when I call Bazooka Joe comics the worst, what I really mean is that the jokes are so bad-but, given (I assume) that the creators know that, then the strips should probably be looked at as a success? And I do enjoy the groans they induce. They’re almost worth chewing the gum for.