‘Henry’ Explained
“Henry” by Carl Anderson. Thursday, October 1, 2009.
Henry is at the zoo when he sees a sign. The sign depicts a human hand pointing the way, as such signs sometimes do. Henry thinks the hand should look more like it’s attached to a monkey’s arm, because it is pointing to the monkey house, and so he draws some hair on it.
Henry’s clever like that.
By the way, Carl Anderson was 67 when he was first picked up for syndication in 1932 as a cartoon. Anderson died in 1948, and the strip was thereafter drawn by Don Trachte on Sundays, until his death in 2005. On weekdays, the strip was drawn by John Liney, until his retirement in 1979. If you receive one of the 75 newspapers that still run “Henry,” as I do, you are seeing vintage strips, not new work.