{"id":604,"date":"2007-08-08T00:18:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T00:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2007-08-08T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T00:18:16","slug":"cliff-and-mortimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Cliff and Mortimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was amazed the other day to stumble upon this:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goodcomics.comicbookresources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/mm301018_002.jpg?w=660\"><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a genuine Disney Mickey Mouse newspaper strip from the 30s which has, as a punchline, a despairing Mickey&#8217;s decision to blow his own head off with a shotgun.  It wasn&#8217;t a one-off &#8211; the actual suicide attempt is the subject on the next strip, and the two after that.  See the full story where I came across it, at <a href=http:\/\/goodcomics.comicbookresources.com\/2007\/08\/02\/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-114\/>Comic Book Resources&#8217; Urban Legends column<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd while I am thinking of matters strip-like: why are you not reading <a href=http:\/\/pbfcomics.com>Perry Bible Fellowship<\/a>? New three-panel gag strips once every week or two, it hardly takes up much of your time.<br \/>\n(Behind the cut is what may be my favourite PBF strip.  It is certainly today&#8217;s favourite.  It&#8217;s too big to fit before the cut, though.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbfcomics.com\/archive\/PBF214-Hard_Read.jpg?w=660\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was amazed the other day to stumble upon this: That&#8217;s a genuine Disney Mickey Mouse newspaper strip from the 30s which has, as a punchline, a despairing Mickey&#8217;s decision to blow his own head off with a shotgun. It wasn&#8217;t a one-off &#8211; the actual suicide attempt is the subject on the next strip, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cliff and Mortimer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-9K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}