More Howladay Greetings!

 Breaking in with Wolfie Greetings and Well Wishes for your holiday, whether you celebrate quietly--

--or with more pizzaz!

 We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

Ding-Dong! Wolfie Calling!

 

(By the way, that name is NOT a Wolfieism!

I once encountered a Mary Barrass, and yes, that's exactly how she wanted me to pronounce her name!!)

Today's Topical 'Toon!

Stars and Stripes!

That phrase begat the ideas for these 4th of July-centric WolfieToons!

I wasn't sure if I communicated the alleged gag here very well:

There have been oceans full of Uncle Sam 'toons, but how many in which he is appropriately dressed for the summer weather?

Strike up the band... leader.

Here's the first version of that cartoon-- I got this far in inking it before deciding it could be better.

Whether it really was is debatable.  Sometimes I overwork t hings!

Happy Independence Day!  The Artificially Orange-Flavored Petulant Pretender and the damage he encourages won't last forever, nor the tide of fear and actual instances of injustice he rode in on.  Take heart!

Summertime Picnic Pals!!

Eager Anticipation!

It's All Hallows' Eve Eve, Eve!

I mean, Elsa!  Sorry, didn't mean to catch you before you had a chance to finish getting ready!  

We'll wait a minute.

OK now?

Yes, you look ravishing!

Don't you think so, Boris?

"Oh, indubitably!  Shall I compare thee to a cold Autumn night?" 

Of course, by the time you see this post, it might actually be Halloween!

So, this post is, er, a Warm-Up!  Don't get carried away yet! 

  

The Father I Go

Slipping in a Happy Daddy's Day WolfieToon here!

Last-Minute Gift Idea!

Happy Woodchuck Day!

Today's animal star, the groundhog (Marmota monax) is also known as a woodchuck, or even, Kazeusus knows why, a whistlepig.

The characters in Walt Kelly's "Pogo" comic strip of the Days Of Yore, also called them "groundchucks" and "woodchunks."

The multi-aliased groundhog is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots.  Not "varmints," "marmots."  Young groundhogs may be called "chucklings."  Here's a groundhog chuckling now: 

So-- back in the Olden Days, the Germans looked for the badger coming out of hibernation on "Candlemas Day," midway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.  If the badger saw its shadow, a "second winter" was on the way.  Bummer.

Meanwhile, back in the States, in 1887, they chose a native hibernating animal, our pal, the whistlepig groundchunk, for this less than remarkable holiday..

Of course, the real reason these animals come out of their hibernation holes is for sex.  Maybe a snack after.

That's pretty powerful motivation.  A fella might get up out of a long, dead sleep for sex and food.  If it were only for weather prognostication, a scene like this might ensue.

And high hilarity would follow!  

Hi Hilarity, that's Puxatawney's brother.

Cold Snap!!

These seem apropos this week!   

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SANTA LETTER, the SEQUEL

And here's Santa's answer to Veronica's note, shown previously:

Comics Context!

So did you have a look at SPK Comics yet?  It's one of the very best collections of comic strip spankings

I've ever seen on the Web-- and it's free!! 

There are rare and wonderful things on display there, and you can at last see the full context of individual panels that have been floating around the internet for a long time!  For instance, there's this cartoon--

which I defiled thus--

and thus--

but I never knew from whence it came, and really wanted to!

And Lo!  It came to pass, thanks to SPK Comics!

I knew this L'l Abner drawing from Al Capp 

was based on an early episode in the comic strip

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and had been done for a magazine-- but I hadn't seen the magazine page until now!  Behold!  From LIFE, January 1957!!

Speaking of Li'l Abner, I bet you've seen this:

And here's what was going on!

Years ago, the Spirit had this on his website and in various Yahoo Groups:

And here's its cotext!  It is a less than pristine microfilm copy-- but SPK Comics gets creidit for scouring it out at all!  

Here's another:  

You can see a much bigger version at SPK Comics!  Things are nicely organized over there, too, with indexes and categories!

So click on over and enjoy!

To Protect Or Swerve!

It seems like such a natural thing to do that I'm surprised we don't see more of it in spanking pictures, videos, and cartoons-- the Spankee trying to block the Spanker's hand to prevent or modify her seat-searing!

Of course, this is usually a token resistance;  you can tell when the ladies are less than serious about fending off the swats-- 

even during a semi-serious spanking for this stowaway from her sailor!

The girls will often giggle in movie publicity photos meant to show how fun and frisky this film might be!  

 

That's young Joan Crawford giggling at James Murray's efforts for 1928's "Rose Marie!"  Maybe he would have had a different reaction if he'd used a wire hanger?

Here's maestro Al Siegel instructing protegee Connie Russell in 1940 during the rehearsals for "Unholy Partners!"  

And to promote the fluffy Bing Crosby picture "College Humor" in 1933, Jack Oakie put Mary Kornman over his lap!  She looks a little more concerned about it. 

Naturally, if the gal is playing a role, she'll want to evoke the audience's suspension of disbelief and make them wonder about her hiney!

Like Lucy--

-- and Erica!

Speaking of Rich Windsor, I do believe some of those earlier depictions of domestic discipline and birthday frivolity were derived from his blog!  Thanks, Rich!

Here's Lily Anna  trying unsuccessfully to stop David Pierson's handprints reddening her lovely fanny!

These are talented women, because like I said, making these protests convincing is a hard sell!

Spankees in the audience will likely quote Hamlet's mom Queen Gertrude, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"No, No, a thousand times, No!"

One of the first "D&D" WolfieToons had a redhead worried about her delicate skin with her swimsuit bottom down--  

And in a later 'toon, the young lady was not worried enough, until her fella took a hand and Uncle Albert suffered some kind of minor apoplexy: 

Take care, now, and remember, in all important matters, C.Y.A.!!