What a Rube! What a Boob!
Rube Goldberg is featured in the next Arf book, Arf Museum, with many pages of his wild drawings of wacky modernistic sculptures. Rube writes about these sculpts in a 1930s article I reprint and there’s even an unpublished drawing of one and an unpublished self portrait, too. (Not to mention a great contemporary portrait done especially for Arf of Rube by the great Gary Taxali).
Today in 1915 is the day Rube Goldberg’s hilarious character Boob McNutt debuted in the comic pages. For the sake of Arf Lovers who might be confused I hereby present the difference between a “Boob” and “Boob McNutt”. Don’t thank me.
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— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)



































