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Title: Cloudbusting
Post by: Eric Plumrose on 17 February, 2010, 07:47:08 PM
Trying to find a (minor, in both senses) comic strip/cartoon character who is always accompanied by a rain/black cloud overhead. Occasional appearances only, possibly in PEANUTS (no, it isn't Pig-Pen who's always in a cloud, and one of dirt and dust at that) or perhaps even THE PERISHERS. Definitely NOT Joe Btfsplk (LI'L ABNER), nor is it Bad-Luck Schleprock from whichever Flintstones' spin-offs he appears in.

Ta!
Title: Re: Cloudbusting
Post by: worldshown on 17 February, 2010, 08:20:19 PM
Gloomy Glad from "Cheeky Weekly"?
Title: Re: Cloudbusting
Post by: Eric Plumrose on 17 February, 2010, 08:56:30 PM
Pretty sure it's a boy, someone the title character (Charlie Brown, say) bumps into every now and then at school(?), dampening the mood. I'm visualizing a three-panel strip with punchline.

Cheers all the same, though!
Title: Re: Cloudbusting
Post by: vzzbux on 17 February, 2010, 09:03:18 PM
I'm pushed towards the perishers from the Daily Mirror but can't be too sure.






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Title: Re: Cloudbusting
Post by: M.I.K. on 17 February, 2010, 09:46:05 PM
Makes me think of Calamity James, but I'm pretty sure it's not him.

*edit...

Read online that Wellington from the Perishers sometimes had his own raincloud if he was feeling under the weather. (not Boots like I thought, that was the dog).
Title: Re: Cloudbusting
Post by: M.I.K. on 17 February, 2010, 09:52:20 PM
Ignore this bit. Double post apparently due to the edit time-limit running out while I was altering it.