As I embarked on the project of posting samplings of a variety of strips from days gone by, my primary scanning computer at home decided it belonged primarily to days gone by, as well.

I have a few faint hopes of being able to salvage the thing, but I also have a tendency to try to remain undeterred -- so I'm returning to a Photoshop Elements program with which I am unfamiliar and, so, am even more likely to mess things up. I liked the full Photoshop on the other computer, aged as both the software and hardware were. What I've used today won't let me scan to as fine a level as I was able to scan with my primary computer. Whine, whine, whine.

OK, that said, Boner's Ark by "Addison" began with what you see here. "Addison" is Mort Walker's first name, and he created the strip -- which ran until 2000 (at which point, you'll be glad to learn, it reached shore in safety).