Story title: "Scribbly Gets an Inspiration!"
Cover Date: November 1936
By: Sheldon Mayer
As expected, we're still on the same issue... Feels weird to make a separate entry for what is literally a page-turn, but whatever.
After acquiring a desk last time and a smock on a previous story (forget about actual art supplies), Scribbly's all set to become a REAL artist and start drawing for a newspaper. So he sets out (figuratively) onto the realms of imagination to search for an idea worthy of his debut. That means no distractions, so baby Jibbet will have to stay somewhere else for now. Or, well, that's what Scribbly would hope.
As soon as Scribbly kicks him out, the kid starts screaming bloody murder, and his mother (understandably so), throws him back into Scribbly's room. Interesting spin on the recurrent background gag of the baby brother following Scribbly around... To put it that way.
So the boy cartoonist begins another one of his melodramatic rants while his studio is trashed by his brother.
Er... Where's the little light bulb above his head? Anyway, he gets to the drawing and...
That's right! Scribbly's cartoon will be about annoying little brothers. Kind of a dick move to use his own little brother as the main character, but he kind of had it coming, with all the trashing he did here.
Anyway, I guess we'll see how this idea works out for him next time.
Either that or he'll go to Laputa! Also, a fun (and completely unrelated) fact: Laputa (The castle from the Studio Ghibli movie and the Jonathan Swift novel way before that) in Spanish means Thewhore. I'm not kidding, look it up.
One more thing. Here. You know what that's for.
So, the ratings:
Quality/Enjoyment: 3/5
Not much to say here. It's nice to see the continuation of Scribbly's early career, this time with the creation of his first actual cartoon (I think it's safe to assume it will be published). The end still wasn't funny, but at this point, I don't even think the series is trying to be. Or at least it's not trying to have an obvious newspaper strip punchline.
Historical/Cultural/Narrative Significance: 1/5
Alright, see you next time for more Scribbly. For now, thanks for reading and have a nice rest of your day!
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