Puss 'n' Boots

&nbsp PUSS 'n' BOOTS is, an all probabitity, the most enduring success within the proud history of SPARKY comic: it was the brainchild of a gifted cartoonist with a unique, vital style, and it also forged a brand-new type of scatalogical humour within the publication, which reached out a million light-years beyond the mostly traditional fare of the other strips within.

Indeed, only Les Barton's I SPY alone could only claim to be more innovative and original within the comic: however, that strip reached creative burnout eventually, and ended up being a watered-down version of past glories: PUSS 'n' BOOTS, on the other hand, remained more consistent, and was rendered soley by the original creator who 'gave birth' to the battling pair: John Geering [1941-1999].

The strip appears to have been the very-first comics work seen in print by the artist, and it joined SPARKY just a few short months after the radical Feb '69 'change in direction', and ultimately this strip in particular would sum up perfectly the zanier, more freewheeling aspects of the' new-direction ' manic humour that so often characterized the comic's output in the very early 70s.