Toonerville Folks, December 26, 1923

Toonerville Folks, December 26, 1923

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I wrote a bit about Fontaine Fox last year. One of the things I love the most about his strips is the expressive style, and this is another great example of that. I love how, with just a few lines and a few panels, he can show such a range of emotion on both the father and the child.

It's also kind of amazing how differently children and adults perceive time. We can only think of time in relation to the amount of time we've already lived, and a year in relation to only 3 or 4 years of life is quite a long time. Adults have lived many more years than that, so we don't think of a year as being nearly as long. I think we try very hard to fool ourselves into thinking it's a long time, though.