I just posted a new article on Billy Make-Believe, only a day after doing one on Bobby Make Believe. Gosh, I hope nobody is confused by them. (The fact that the two titles appear on different lines of the Contents page should help us avoid that.) I've done this sort of thing before — in fact, just three months after opening the site, I posted Hippety Hopper and Hoppity Hooper on the same day. It appeals to my sense of — something or other, no doubt. Or maybe it just appeals.

For such close sound-alikes, the two features are very different. One of them seemed almost a precursor of later daydream guys and the other was kind of a throwback to earlier fantasies in the Sunday comics. One was created by a famous, influential cartoonist and the other by someone with practically no other credits in cartoons. They didn't even look very much the same. They just had very similar titles.

Anyway, so Bobby Make Believe and Billy Make-Believe are both written up here now. Don't let yourself be torn between them. They're both worth reading about, if you ask me..

— DDM