Animal | Can we say the guy who draws Beetle Bailey has seen this? |
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Duck | No because why aren’t its feet webbed and do they even rest in trees? But if that’s not a mallard then what is it? |
Squirrel | Still Not Yet |
Snake | Yes |
Another duck or maybe a badly colored pigeon? | I guess? I’m stuck figuring out what it’s holding. |
Horse | Maybe? |
Bear | From the front and only the front |
Mouse | Also only from the front |
Butterfly | Yes |
Uh … is … that one of those comical fish lures you see in 1950s cartoons and sitcoms about marginally competent fathers? | I guess so? |
Whatever kind of bird that is standing on the edge of the large tub there? | No |
Raccoon | Turns out, yeah |
Dog? Maybe? In that lower right corner? Or maybe it’s another bear? | Y … uh … yeah? Maybe? |
Reference:

It’s the legs. He draws all mammals legs as wookies. Short, long, thin, clawed? Nope. Wookies all the way down.
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Yeah, you’re right. The legs (front and back) are so uniform that the body plans don’t have a chance of standing out. The tails aren’t differentiated enough either.
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Sarge and Cookie look like brothers or twins, with the only difference being their stubble and the eaOH MY GOD WHAT IS GOING ON WITH COOKIE’S EAR
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Cookie’s ear has always looked like that and I admit I’m not sure what Walker was going through in the design. ( https://www.comicskingdom.com/shared_comics/b4d7fa6c-d9d6-483e-a386-2e28a2fa1ac7 has how he looked in 1962.) I had thought Sarge and Cookie had started out more differentiated and have gotten closer as the art simplifies even farther, but even by 1962 ( https://www.comicskingdom.com/shared_comics/cac34add-f792-4460-86f0-28d57823520b ) the major difference was in a bit of the neckline.
Hagar, another character with a similar look, was in part Dik Browne’s self-caricature. I’m now curious whether Sarge or Cookie might have been Mort walker’s caricature of Dik Browne, but that’s entirely my speculation. It may just be there’s logical reasons for all these characters to be fat yet muscular characters and the style points to a particular direction.
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