lbo (02/24/83)
Yes, Joe, I remember Sawdust, although I haven't read Dick Tracy regularly in years. Another example of a nested comic strip was Fearless Fosdick, in Al Capp's Li'l Abner strip. Fearless Fosdick was a parody of the Dick Tracy strip. Fosdick was always getting shot right through the middle of his forehead (you could see daylight through his head), apparently without suffering any loss of intellectual or physical ability. I believe he would describe the bullet hole as a mere "flesh wound". Li'l Abner described Fosdick as "Mah Ideel". Lew Oberlander Bell Labs ..!ihnss!lbo