Mister Boffo
| Mister Boffo | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Joe Martin |
| Current status/schedule | Running |
| Launch date | 1986 |
| Syndicate(s) | Neatly Chiseled Features (current) Tribune Media Syndicate (previous) |
| Genre(s) | Humor |
Mister Boffo is an American comic strip created by Joe Martin. The strip has been in syndication since 1986, originally distributed by Tribune Media Services and now distributed by Martin's own Neatly Chiseled Features. [1]
The strip's main character is a balding, big-nosed man named Earl who is usually shown as married to a pretty blonde woman named Nadine and as the owner of a small white "wonder dog" named Weederman. However, there is no particular continuity in the strip from day to day; the characters may turn up in prehistoric times or in a futuristic spaceship, or in heaven or hell. Even in the strips set in contemporary times, Earl is depicted variously as a corporate executive, a working-class person, a prisoner, or a homeless beggar. Strips often illustrate recurring themes, such as "A Time to Worry" and "People Unclear on the Concept".
"Mister Boffo" strips have been collected in books including Mister Boffo: Unclear on the Concept (1989) (ISBN 0-316-54859-6) and Mister Boffo: Shrink Wrapped (1995) (ISBN 0-8362-1777-2) and the truly bizarre self-published single issue comic book Boffo In Hell (1995) co-drawn by the cartoonist's teenage son Jay Martin where lovable loser Earl Boffo is transformed into a realistically-drawn Image Comics-style scarlet-suited superhero and his little dog Weederman into a huge humanoid werewolf to battle genetically-altered mutant psychopaths after a powerful giant alien wedding ring falls to Earth and jams itself onto Earl's skull like a metal headband.