I remember reading Li’ Abner by Al Capp in the barber shop across from the recently re-built Tidewater Inn in Easton, Maryland.

One of the characters was the hapless Joe Btfsplk.

He always had a rain cloud over his head.

Now comes Broom-Hilda cartoonist Myers with a similar take:

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