Howard was a cute idea for a limited time. After all, it was a simple "what if." What if Barks' Donald Duck lived in the real world? To my thinking, Gerber got so caught up in his own hype that the book very rapidly became a self-indulgent, self-important bore.


BTW - not a great comic, but I am currently rereading some old Dell "Cicero's Cat" comics. I always thought this was a strange book. The cat was owned by the son of Mutt (of "Mutt & Jeff" fame). Humans would appear in the strip, but it also featured the cat (Desi, by name) interacting with talking animals (kind of in the way Sugar & Spike communicated while surrounded by adults).

What I always found really strange was that Mutt & Jeff were already extremely passe by the time "Cicero's Cat" was launched. What was Dell thinking?