So the ClassicStrips account on Twitter has a fascinating collection of vintage comic strips that it shares daily (including Pogo, by the way, the only decent online presence that Walt Kelly's classic has). Among the strips is the Felix the Cat comic that King Features paid anonymous people to do. A copule days ago the mouse who maybe has a name was trying to blow up a balloon better than Felix and it turned out a little something like this ...

You can see the original at https://twitter.com/ClassicStrips/s.....371521/photo/1 and in the most shockingestly shocking development of all, I added some glossy balloon-y effects to the basic look.

Original art by Otto Messmer if I'm reading Wikipedia rightly.

(Edit: fixed a small coloring error.)