Herbie Popnecker Examples:
Recurring Gags:
Things Get Squished

Created: 2003-03-09 Updated: 2012-04-21
Stories: 11 Examples: 15 Links: 27

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Bop you with this here lollipop (35 examples)
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Sound-Effects (76 examples)

No one gets injured in Herbie comics, so to show how badly someone has been beaten, they appear to be compressed, flattened, squished like an accordion. Early on, people were squished by punching, but in later stories, Herbie would fall on villains and squish them with his butt.

Note the contrast between the drawing detail of the squisher and the squishee. Sometimes, the squishee is little more than a wavy blob. Ogden Whitney must have thought these bad drawings were hilarious. The sound effects varied for squishing, but SPRONG! was common for de-squishing. Often, the squished decompress, sometimes with the aid of a handy airpump.

Index terms: compressed, flattened, squished, accordion, crunch, sprong, Richard E. Hughes, Ogden Whitney

Double-fisted CRUNCH! ... SPRONG!

Source: Herbie #3a p.11 (1964-08)

Updated: 2005-03-10

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Herbie Popnecker Examples: Recurring Gags: Things Get Squished

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Herbie Popnecker Examples:
Recurring Gags:
Things Get Squished