Dogs on display: Museum fetes 200 years of cartoon canines
COLUMBUS, Oh — In a 1970 Beetle Bailey comic strip, the character known as Sarge berates his uniform-wearing dog, Otto, for a paperwork mistake.
“Think, Otto, think!!” Sarge says.
“We can’t all be Snoopy,” a dejected Otto replies.
This confluence of two iconic comic strip dogs is on exhibit along with dozens of other images at the world’s largest cartoon museum as part of a new presentation of the history of canines in the world of cartooning.
“The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons” at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is running through October.