Mr. Sky Gack from Mars was a cartoon character created by American cartoonist A.D. Condo, who's probably more famous

for another one of his creations, the outbursts of Everett True, which was a two-panel comic strip

featured in newspapers around the country from 1905 until 1927, and which starred a portly,

middle-aged man named Everett True, who wore an old-fashioned for the time, coat and bowler hat combo, and who basically spent all of his time wandering around being angry at people.

Everett True's formula was pretty simple. The titular character would see someone doing something annoying, and this almost always

meant something annoying to old-fashioned middle-aged people of the era, and he would then

shout at them and hit them with his umbrella and shake his fist at them and tell them off in

colorful ways.

The result was a comic strip that was less funny in the sense that we think of

comic strips as often being funny in the comedic way today, and more it's funny because it's true.

This character tells people off in the way that we sometimes wish that we could tell people

off and says things that are impolite to say because he's just one of

those people. That such a concept could last more than two decades says something about people

of the era, but also about people in general, I think. There are more evolved versions of this

style of pseudo-humor that exist today, though they often take the shape of stand-up comedy

and have a little bit more actual comedy included. Mr. Skygack from Mars also had a formula

that was repeated ad nauseum from its origin in 1907 until its last appearance a decade later

in 1917.

The idea was that this stout, skinny-legged, long and fuzzy-headed alien,

wearing what amounts to a sharp-shouldered dressing gown that reveals his knobby knees,

is walking around Earth, taking notes about how things work on this planet.

The comic would usually have just one or two panels and almost always demonstrated some common element of human life

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