To commemorate my favorite month (October) and my favorite
holiday (Halloween), I'm doing a monster sketch per day.
For today's monster, I chose the original Goon, from E.C.
Segar's classic comic strip, "Thimble Theatre"--better known as the
home strip of Popeye. More people remember Alice the Goon, a domesticated,
dressed-up version of her species, seen later in the comic. But in its first
appearance, the Goon was a savage henchman to Popeye's great enemy, The Sea
Hag. Perhaps to modern eyes that have "seen everything" where
monsters are concerned, the Goon might appear silly looking, and not scary at
all. But in 1933, there was a nation-wide uproar from concerned parents who
claimed their comic-reading children were having nightmares from seeing the
hideous Goon. Competing with the Universal horror movie monsters of the same
era, that made the Goon a terror of the highest pedigree.
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