Story title: "Scribbly Takes a Test!"
Cover Date: February 1937
By: Sheldon Mayer
One more Scribbly page, let's go!
Are his skills as a cartoonist good enough to be the full-time apprentice of the great (although, we haven't seen any of his strips) Ving Parker? Let's find out.
So, on what I'm assuming is the morning after the previous night's incident. Scribbly and Sammy are getting acquainted over breakfast.
After all that, apparently, Ving was gracious enough to not kick him out. He seems a bit too eager to let people into his house... I mean, he does live alone with his butler in a huge mansion and must get kind of lonely sometimes.
Scrib and Sammy get to talking, and they go straight to the subject of Scribbly's artistic aspirations. Now, Ving has warned Scribbly about Sammy being a bit of a jokester, but I guess he's more worried about his career, because when Sammy mentions a "Cartoonist license", he fully believes it!
This reminds me of something! Back when I started high school, my grandpa warned me about older kids asking me if I had already submitted my "death certificate" so I would go to try and submit it and make a fool out of myself (please, do understand, in this fake scenario the victim is eleven a what a "death certificate" is is a lot less obvious in Spanish). Of course, I never actually got pranked like that, but he likely was, so I wonder if "nonexistent license" was a common prank genre a few decades ago... Tangent over.
So, to get this cartoonist license, you need to prove that you're crazy enough to be one. See! This is totally pushing the idea of artists being crazy! Kind of weird to me. it's definitely an existing stereotype, but more so for museum painting artists, or even writers or film directors, but not for cartoonists!
Anyway, Ving happens to look out the window, and what he sees prompts him to run outside.
And what he finds there is... Well, definitely crazy enough for a cartoonist, whatever that entails.
No "read next" this time, but have some publicity.
And now, let's get to the ratings.
Quality/Enjoyment: 2/5
You know, I was gonna give this a 3, but then I realized it's not really that good. The joke is alright, but definitely not on par with some of the more decent ones we've seen so far. And there's no plot progression,k really, besides I guess a bit more characterization for Sammy, but nothing too new, given what we already saw last time.
Historical/Cultural/Narrative Significance: 1/5
And that's it for now! Next time is only the "why big brothers leave home strip from the other page, so it shouldn't take long. Until then, thanks for reading, and have a nice rest of your day!
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