Number 1256: Babe the Boody-cutey

It's time to bring back Boody! Boody Rogers, a cartoonist whose stories were not only well drawn, but funny and bizarre. This is a good example. “Babe and the Dying King” is a comical situation that is as strange as it is hilarious.

Hillbillies were in during the 1940s, seen in movies, novels and comic strips, so why not a funny hillbilly comic book? Babe Boone is the female L'il Abner Yokum. Her parents are even “Mammy” and “Pappy.” The comic book lasted for eleven memorable issues, and produced some classic stories. Some of those stories (along with examples of Rogers' Sparky Watts and Dudley) can be found in Boody, the Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers, edited by Craig Yoe, published by Fantagraphics in 2009. Boody is still available from the usual outlets, including Yoebooks, Fantagraphics, or even your favorite comic book store if they will be nice enough to order it for you. It gets my highest recommendation.

From Babe #3 (1948):