Sunday, January 7, 2007

Today we introduce our Sunday Funnies feature, each week spotlighting one the many wonderful characters or titles from the worlds of comic books and comic strips.

Although sometimes this feature could include characters who would also be suitable for our Saturday Cartoons feature, todays is not. In fact, she's one of the few characters from the Harvey Comics group (as mentioned yesterday) who did not have an animated turn. Her name is Little Dot. Despite being overlooked for an animated series, Dot was one of the most popular and durable characters in the Harvey stable. Indeed it was as a backup feature in her comic that Richie Rich make his debut.

Little Dot had a fascination with dots (and spots and other round things). This fascination drew her into many misadventures over the decades, as did her large family of Aunts and Uncles (who even earned their own comic book spin-off) and her friendship (and frequent cross-overs) with fellow Harvey character Little Lotta.



The item above is from Little Dot issue 58 from 1960. Focusing on the "dot" part of music notes was a recurring cover gag.