# Punny comic strip names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [April 21, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466 "2021-04-21T17:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/1 "2021-04-21T17:39:40Z")
Almost all the old strips were full of pun names, like Olive Oyl (and the whole Oyl family), Ann Howe from Joe Palooka, Washington Tubbs, and more. Anyway…I’ve been reading a great run of old Alley Oops on a FB group and one character is named G. Oscar Boom. If that’s a pun I can’t quite suss it. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/2 "2021-04-21T17:45:13Z")
G. O. Boom (“go boom”)? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/3 "2021-04-21T17:54:18Z")
That sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/4 "2021-04-21T17:58:40Z")
Dick Tracy had B. O. Plenty. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/5 "2021-04-21T18:05:56Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I’ve been reading a great run of old Alley Oops on a FB group and one character is named G. Oscar Boom Of course, in **Alley Oop** you also had Professor Wunmug. “Wunmug” = “One Mug” In German, “One” is “Ein” and “Mug” is “Stein”, so “Wunmug” = “Einstein” I came up with one a long time ago, and a comic strip artist used it before I could do anything with it. Howie Schneider’s strip **Eek and Meek** had a circus acrobat named “Legs” Akimbo. I shoulda sued. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/6 "2021-04-21T18:08:38Z")
I remember a Legs Akimbo from a zany circus strip, circa mid 70s. Can’t think of the name right now. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/7 "2021-04-21T18:10:49Z")
Luann has Ann Eiffel (an eyeful). There’s the Hi and Lois strip (high and low) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/8 "2021-04-21T18:16:24Z")
Eek and Meek also had a psychiatrist named _Sang Froid_ Look it up. The “Froid” part was obviously a pun on “Freud”. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/9 "2021-04-21T18:18:14Z")
**The Wizard of Id** had the Frankenstein-like _Abra-Cadaver_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/10 "2021-04-21T18:20:57Z")
In Jerry Scott’s strip **Zits** one of Jeremy’s close friends is _Pierce_, which wouldn’t be a pun, except that Pierce is a punk type with plenty of obvious piercings. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/11 "2021-04-21T18:23:04Z")
Popeye had **Prof OG Wotasnozzel:** > **[Don Markstein's Toonopedia: O.G. Wotasnozzle](http://www.toonopedia.com/wotasnoz.htm)** > > Hypertext encyclopedia of comics and animation Known in German as OG _Riesenrüssel_ (“Giant Probiscus” or “Trunk”). ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/12 "2021-04-21T18:28:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > > I’ve been reading a great run of old Alley Oops on a FB group and one character is named G. Oscar Boom > > Of course, in **Alley Oop** you also had Professor Wunmug. > > “Wunmug” = “One Mug” > In German, “One” is “Ein” and “Mug” is “Stein”, so “Wunmug” = “Einstein” > > I came up with one a long time ago, and a comic strip artist used it before I could do anything with it. > Howie Schneider’s strip **Eek and Meek** had a circus acrobat named “Legs” Akimbo. I shoulda sued. Legs Akimbo was in Eek & Meek, and also in [P.T.Bimbo, a circus strip by Schneider.](http://www.toonopedia.com/ptbimbo.htm) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/13 "2021-04-21T19:06:26Z")
Churchy LaFemme from _Pogo_ Senator Jack S. Phogbound from _L’il Abner_ Before comics, there was the political satirist Orpheus C. Kerr. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/14 "2021-04-21T20:47:44Z")
_Rick O’Shay_ (from Wikipedia): “The strip is set in the Western town of Conniption where Rick O’Shay is the deputy [sheriff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff), since the town is too small to have a full sheriff. His best friend is gunslinger Hipshot Percussion. Other key characters include gambler Deuces Wilde, dance hall owner Gaye Abandon… nurse, Ophelia Pulse… banker Mort Gage and a boy named Quyat Burp…” I still miss it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/15 "2021-04-21T21:46:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Sang Froid Also, it’s French for “cold blood”. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/16 "2021-04-21T22:04:42Z")
**Shoe** has Senator Batson D. Belfry. **Gil Thorp** has Hadley V. Baxendale, whose name is a [lawyer joke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_v_Baxendale). ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/17 "2021-04-22T13:56:38Z")
O-Dor of Uranus appears in _Brewster Rockit: Space Guy_ occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/18 "2021-04-22T14:39:09Z")
I admit, I’m a bit out of it today, but I don’t get any of these puns. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/19 "2021-04-22T14:49:53Z")
In **Calvin and Hobbes** , the author of Calvin’s favorite book (“Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie”) is named Mabel Syrup. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466/20 "2021-04-22T15:01:19Z")
_Ella Cinders_ was a comic take on the Cinderella story. One of Ella’s stepsister was Lotta Pill,\* and her boyfriend was Waite Lifter. \*“Pill” was slang at the time for someone who ruins your fun. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punny-comic-strip-names/940466.md?page=2)