'Hugo' by Milton Knight

During the 1980s, there was a bit of a revival of the Funny Animal comic book genre with the number of series and width of genres embodied reaching that of its Golden Age during the 1940s. The best remembered characters and comics from this period are Stan Sakai's "Usagi Yojimbo", Steve Purcell's "Sam & Max", and, of course, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".

Cartoonist, painter, and animation historian Milton Knight's contribution to the revival was "Hugo", a series about a put-upon court jester who pined for the love of Princess Tish against the backdrop of an anthropomorphic fantasy kingdom. Here's a short tale, which originally appeared in "Hugo" #1 (Fantagraphics, 1982).

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