Hahaha!
This is an example of the sort of hilarious "sight-gags" that Al Jaffee drew for the Herald Tribune from 1957 to 1963.
Jaffee conceived of Tall Tales while in desperate economic straits, and hit upon a winning formula for breaking into the lucrative comics syndicate game: rather than drawing a traditional horizontal strip that would compete with the existing material, he opted for a seven-inch-tall vertical strip, which gave editors a lot more flexibility as to where in the paper the strip would run.
Jaffee's comics have now been collected into a book. I want.
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