[ti:Museum Show Celebrates 200 Years of Cartoon Dogs] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]In a 1970 Beetle Bailey comic strip, a character known as Sarge [00:08.40]shouts at his uniform-wearing dog, Otto, over a paperwork mistake. [00:16.00]"Think, Otto, think!!" Sarge says. [00:20.16]"We can't all be Snoopy," a sad Otto answers. [00:27.08]This joining of two well-known comic strip dogs [00:31.76]is being shown along with many other images [00:35.44]at the world's largest cartoon museum. [00:40.24]It is part of a new presentation of the history of dogs [00:45.08]in the world of cartooning. [00:48.68]"The Dog Show: Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons" [00:53.84]is being shown at Ohio State University's [00:57.76]Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio. [01:04.00]It will be open through October. [01:07.16]The idea for the show came when the family of Brad Anderson, [01:13.40]the creator of the cartoon dog Marmaduke, [01:17.20]donated his collection in 2018. [01:21.16]It included 16,000 Marmaduke cartoons [01:26.12]from 1954 to 2010 and other works. [01:32.00]Anderson died in 2015. [01:36.28]The addition of Anderson's dog cartoons started a discussion [01:42.12]about other cartoons with dogs in the museum, [01:46.44]said museum coordinator Anne Drozd. [01:50.52]"There were so many comic strips [01:53.40]and magazine cartoons and comic books, [01:56.36]and so many different examples that have dogs in them." [02:02.04]Dogs' personalities make them a very good fit for the comic strip, [02:07.16]said show organizer Brian Walker. [02:11.12]Dogs "aim to please, so they actually make [02:15.60]really good cartoon characters," said Walker. [02:19.64]He is a cartoonist and cartoon historian. [02:24.36]He is also the son of Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey. [02:30.68]Though Otto first appeared in Beetle Bailey in 1956, [02:36.20]he was a normal, four-legged dog until around 1970 [02:41.72]when Mort Walker made him more human. [02:45.16]He gave Otto his own uniform and desk. [02:49.60]That change most likely came because of Snoopy [02:53.60]in Charles Schulz' Peanuts strip, Brian Walker said. [02:59.60]The oldest image in the show is a reprint [03:03.08]of British artist George Cruikshank's drawing of weather [03:08.04]so bad it's "raining cats and dogs." [03:12.12]Moving through the years, the show includes well-known dogs [03:16.80]like "Sandy" from Little Orphan Annie, "Daisy" from Blondie [03:22.68]and "Dogbert" from Scott Adams' Dilbert strip. [03:27.80]George Booth's New Yorker magazine cartoon dogs [03:32.36]are also being shown. [03:34.32]And so are images by newspaper cartoonist Lynda Barry. [03:40.36]Other works include Shary Flenniken's "Trots and Bonnie," [03:46.16]about a girl and her talking dog [03:48.72]that appeared in "National Lampoon" from 1972 to 1990. [03:55.80]There are well-known characters like "Dog Man" [04:00.12]from the book series by cartoonist Dave Pilkey. [04:04.60]There are also six strips from a 1940s Dick Tracy cartoon [04:10.48]with a dog named Mugg that the detective looks after for a while. [04:17.04]Brian Walker said his favorite cartoon in the show [04:20.88]comes from the 1955 Disney movie "Lady and the Tramp," [04:26.16]showing the dogs eating at an Italian restaurant. [04:31.08]"They're both eating the same piece of spaghetti [04:34.28]and their lips kind of come together [04:37.68]and they fall in love," Walker said. [04:40.64]"It doesn't get much better than that." [04:44.84]I'm Susan Shand. [04:46.80]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM