Tuesday, May 08, 2012  Seven Year Hitch  Tuesday Comic Strip
Day.  I was very much surprised and thrilled by my find of Ken
Muse's Wayout last week, so I went back to seen when it started
and ended. Turns out, this charming little strip ran for a lot
longer than I would have thought. I guess, it is the fate of
strips that are very much of their time - that they are
forgotten afterwards. Still, you would have thought that Ken
Muse himself would have had his own fans. Anyway, Wayout seems
to have started in october 1964 and run for more than seven
years until december 1970. Strange that Muse didn't contribute
to the other Hanna-Barbara strips, the Flintstones and Yogi
Bear. But maybe, he was happy enough to do his own thing. Seven
years of inspird silliness.  As for the name, searching for the
earliest appearances of this strip I found that 'wayot' was the
mot-du-jour for anything out of the oridnary. It was used to
describe the hairdo of the Beatles, in ads for the Disney movie
The Sword in the Stone and anyth