Boob McNutt was a comic strip by Rube Goldberg which ran from 1915 to September 1934. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Rube Goldberg sketch from the collection of Ropes & Gray Reuben Garret L. Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was a cofounder and president of the American National Cartoonists Society. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Boob McNutt was a clumsy, buffoonish fellow who was quite friendly and attempted to be helpful in his incompetent way. He was entrusted with tasks like caring for priceless works of art and the Elixir of Immortality, tasks he inevitably failed, usually in a destructive manner.
From 1922 to 1926, the strip focused on Boob's pursuit of his love Pearl, whom he finally married, then divorced, then married again, and divorced again. Goldberg brought in supporting characters from his other strips like Ike & Mike and Bertha the Siberian Cheesehound. In 1934, he even brought in Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, inventor of those famed Rube Goldberg machines, briefly before the strip was cancelled. Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
In his seminal 1923 essay "The Seven Lively Arts", Gilbert Seldes called Boob McNutt "the least worthy of Rube Goldberg's astonishing creations". {{year nav|1939 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Gilbert Vivian Seldes (January 3, 1893 – September 29, 1970) was an American writer and cultural critic. ...
Comparing Boob ("without a brain in his head") to smart, clever, but less popular comic strip heroes such as Foxy Grandpa and Hawkshaw the Detective, Seldes called him "the least worthy of Rube Goldberg's astonishing creations".
Boob was, as the name implies, a boob, back when that word's only meaning had to do with stupidity and uselessness.
BoobMcNutt started as a series of oneshot gags, which usually ended with Boob being tortured to death for his innocently destructive ways; but before long, week-to-week continuity was added.
He was entrusted with tasks like caring for priceless works of art and the Elixir of Immortality, tasks he inevitably failed, usually in a destructive manner.
From 1922 to 1926, the strip focused on Boob's pursuit of his love Pearl, whom he finally married, then divorced, then married again, and divorced again.
In his seminal 1923 essay "The Seven Lively Arts", Gilbert Seldes called BoobMcNutt "the least worthy of Rube Goldberg's astonishing creations".
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