Saturday Comic

11:34 am, March 4, 2017 by Bob Neinast

Today’s comic is from Wide Open, written/illustrated by Rich Powell. It appeared on August 21, 2014.

Wide Open, August 21, 2014

Uncomplicated. Uncomplicated by shoes.

That was just fairly normal back then.

Posted in Barefoot, Comics | 4 Comments

on 4:12 pm, March 4, 2017 at 4:12 pm | Reply Tamara Gerken

Precisely.
on 5:18 pm, March 4, 2017 at 5:18 pm | Reply S. G.

Hopefully it will become uncomplicated like that again soon, both for children & adults.
on 10:36 am, March 5, 2017 at 10:36 am | Reply Victor Sudakov

A smiley in 1971 ? Incredible.
- on 1:01 pm, March 5, 2017 at 1:01 pm | Reply Bob Neinast
  
  Designed in 1963, and became much more popular in the early-1970s.
  
  The graphic was further popularized in the early 1970s by Philadelphia brothers Bernard and Murray Spain, who seized upon it in September 1970 in a campaign to sell novelty items. The two produced buttons as well as coffee mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers and many other items emblazoned with the symbol and the phrase “Have a happy day” (devised by Gyula Bogar), which mutated into “Have a nice day”. Working with New York button manufacturer NG Slater, some 50 million happy face badges were produced by 1972.
  
  Wikipedia.