Ozy and Millie: Year of the rat
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Notes: Originals from this period are a different size and shape — 11 inches wide x 16 inches tall.
White-out corrections in all three panels; pasted-in dialog correction in the second panel.
What does Millie have against Ozy’s fur?
I thin k an equally good question would be: who gives a child an extension cord for Christmas?
Millie’s aunt.
Well, it is a gift Millie appreciates.
Nothing, it’s just that the cartoonist has a shaving fetish.
If you were confused as to how the title relates to the content of the strip, it probably has something to do with the fact that rats naturally have no fur on their tails.
Or that 2008 was the year of the Rat in Chinese astrology (although not until February, so this was a little early).
Or that Millie is being a bit of a rat, in the colloquial sense.
“A bit”?
You know, I really don’t get why Millie is so obsessed with being….NAAAUUUGGGHHTYYYYYY.
It’s her “hat”…the characteristic which makes her funny.
The naughty thing was a reference to a courage the cowardly dog episode, about an insane barber