LOONESSEY V: BOSKO THE DOUGHBOY (1931)

Bosko's back. Probs the funniest (imho) short thus far, although it's also the most disturbing (see Exh. A). It's not Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, but it does bring out some of the absurdities of the Great War -- not that that's a particularly Herculean task. Also owes something to Bruce Bairnsfather, hands-down the best cartoonist to come out of the trenches (Exh. C). There's a lot of amazing humor that came out of World War I (cartoons galore, Mr. Punch's History of the Great War, etc.)