Three raw installments of the final iteration of Organic Bear. I’d been asked to revive the strip as a four panel weekly, with all the characters from the original 1972 version (and some new ones added). So here the bear is back, in his regular attire, and temperamental, conniving self…except previously he had been knocked silly by a companion’s whole regurgitated watermelon and only regains his old demeanor after getting bottled by a butler. His life-long torment Chickin Devine had been straightjacketed some weeks back for public safety, and the fox and the toad are along as they are also from the 1972 series. This is the ‘straight’ version, which I decided to do old style -meaning by brush. These cuts are from somewhere in the the early stages of the run, which I finally quit just as I was offered national syndication; nothing disgusts a painter more than being introduced as “the cartoonist…”, unless its knowing that this is only being done for lack of a real film budget.

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