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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Chaw - A Love Letter Pt.1: Explosive Juice


Remember when cartoon characters smoked? Remember when real cartoon characters smoked cigars? Well, all those guys were pussies compared to cartoon characters who chewed! In the following weeks I will present frame grabs from some of the finest cheek rotting examples of chaw in the golden age of cartoons. It will be an emotional journey ...

We'll begin with explosive chaw. For some reason chaw in the 30's had many unusual properties one of which was the ability to explode on contact. One such case was documented in a Scrappy cartoon (some believe based on a real incident which killed 100 people in the late 20's) called 'The Puppet Murder Case'.










Posted by J.V. (AKA "White Pongo") at 4:36 PM

2 comments:

Paul B said...

great blog! maybe you could put the images bigger

thanks!

Paul

February 24, 2008 at 11:18 AM
J.V. (AKA "White Pongo") said...

That's a good idea! My connection for uploading is a little finicky but I'll give it a try on the next post.

February 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM

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