Bonzo the dog is a fictional character created by British artist George E. Studdy in the early 1920s. He was a chubby little white pup with sparse black spots, a stubby tail and big blue eyes. Bonzo became the inspiration for much commercial merchandise, such as cuddly and mechanical toys, ashtrays, pincushions, trinket boxes, car mascots, jigsaw puzzles, books, calendars, candies, and a profusion of postcards. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... George Ernest Studdy ( 23 June 1878 - 25 July 1948) was a British commercial artist. ...

Bonzo The Dog featured in 26 Animated Silent Cartoons from 1924 to 1925 made by New Era Films Ltd in the UK. These are now rare and lost cartoons with only a few surviving, at least 8 are known to exist in some form. They were all titled "Bonzo No xx" starting with No 1 to No 26 and then they had subtitles such as:

Bonzo The Traveller
Bonzoby
Bonzolino
Bonzo Broadcasted
Bonzo The Pup in Tanked
Booster Bonzo or Bonzo in Gay Paree
Chee-kee The Vamp
Circus Bonzo
Detective Bonzo and The Black Hand Gang
Dog-Gone
Out On The Tiles After a Cat Burglar
Playing The "Dickens" In An Old Curiosity Shop
Polar Bonzo
Tally Ho, Bonzo
The Adventures of Fido
The Scout's Good Turn
The Topical Bonzette

Bonzo, wearing a set of headphones, became associated with the "Crosley Pup", an affordable mass-produced AM radio introduced by Powel Crosley Jr. in the United States in 1925. Years later, both Bonzo commercial items and Crosley Pup radios became valuable as collectibles. A papier-mâché Crosley Bonzo is on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC. Headphones (also known as earphones, earbuds, stereophones, headsets, or by the slang term cans) are a pair of transducers that receive an electrical signal from a media player or receiver and use speakers placed in close proximity to the ears (hence the name earphone) to convert the signal into audible... Crosley Pup was an affordable mass-produced AM radio introduced by Powel Crosley Jr. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ... Powel Crosley, Jr. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... A collectible (or collectable) is a manufactured item designed for people to collect. ... Papier-mâché around a form such as a balloon to create a pig. ... The Smithsonian castle, as seen through the garden gate. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

In the 1960s, Bonzo's name was borrowed for the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, an innovative English rock group. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (more often the Bonzo Dog Band or to fans simply the Bonzos) were the brainchild of a British art-school set of the 1960s. ...

External links

• George Studdy and Bonzo Dog reference website