"Comics will break your heart"

Over the past year I’ve spent a lot more time reading and studying comic books and cartooning. The history has been far more interesting than I ever expected.

Percy Crosby creates the Skippy cartoon in 1923 and builds it up into a $3 million business by 1932. He goes after FDR and the New Deal for being communist. Then his woes begin.

By 1964 he’s dead in an insane asylum after a war with the IRS and their alleged corporate proxy, the Rosefield Packing Company. The Rosefield Packing Company takes the Skippy name and creates Skippy peanut butter.

The Savage Critic has the details


Last modified on 2007-10-02