Gustaf the not so Gallant Beggar – Goofus and Gallant from Highlights magazine
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Beggar’s real name is Gustaf, creator of the “Gustaf and Gallantry” series, doomed by low customer ratings. Your wizard watched “The Big Bad Witch” in Sweetzburg and rated the film so low that it broke the Golems.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, trips to the Doctor’s or Dentist’s office were dreaded and feared. The one thing that made the interminable wait in the waiting room bearable was Highlights magazine.
Highlights for Children, often referred to simply as Highlights, is an American children’s magazine. It began publication in June 1946, started by Garry Cleveland Myers and his wife Caroline Clark Myers in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where the editorial office remains. The Highlights tagline is “Fun with a Purpose”.
Highlights has surpassed one billion magazine copies in 2006. In 2021, after 75 years of partnership, the United States Postal Service had delivered well over 4.5 billion pieces of Highlights related mail. Highlights magazines (Highlights, High Five, High Five Bilingüe, Highlights CoComelon, Hello, brainPLAY) do not carry any third-party advertising or commercial messages.
By the 1980s, Highlights was the most popular children’s magazine in the United States, having close to two million subscribers, with 95 percent of the copies mailed to homes. The magazine accepted no advertising and eschewed single-issue sales, but could be found in most pediatrician’s and dentist’s waiting rooms in North America. By 1995, Highlights’ circulation had grown to 2.8 million, with most subscribers still being families. In 2006, the United States Postal Service delivered the one-billionth copy of Highlights magazine to a young subscriber in Dallas, Texas.
Several features have been a mainstay of Highlights for decades; Ask Arizona, Hidden Pictures, Joke & Riddles, Dear Highlights, What’s Wrong, and Goofus & Gallant
First appearing in Highlights in 1948, Goofus and Gallant is what New Yorker Magazine calls a “brazenly didactic” cartoon feature created by Garry Cleveland Myers and first drawn by Leslie Harrington. The strip features two contrasting boys, Goofus and Gallant, which were originally drawn as elves. In each cartoon, it is shown how each boy would respond to the same situation. Goofus chooses an irresponsible, immature and unkind path, while Gallant chooses a responsible, mature and kind path. Often the panels would provide a description, such as on a school bus: Goofus hogs his seat – Gallant makes space for someone else to sit down. Sometimes the situations would show the boys talking, such as phone courtesy when parents are away: Goofus: “Someone called but I forgot their name.” Gallant: “Someone called for you. I wrote down their name and number”. Goofus and Gallant’s primary function is to teach children basic social skills. Originally drawn in black and white, Goofus and Gallant changed to colored pencils in 1994 and later changed to colored computer graphics in December 2005.
Throughout its history Goofus and Gallant has been interpreted as an effective didactic comic. The strip has reflected changes in attitudes about American parenting styles. It has been used in several studies as a stimulus to prompt children to identify kind and unkind actions, and the characters of Goofus and Gallant, as archetypes of badness and goodness, have been referenced in several works by philosophers.
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Gustaf image is from Wizard101, and is (c) KingsIsle Entertainment.
It is being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
Highlights cover & Goofus and Gallant comics are copyright Highlights for Children Inc.
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