Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie
Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie is a children's transdimensional comic strip which appears in Gaslights for Children.
Plot summary
Gallant Marie Curie studies hard, works hard, struggles against sexism, discovers radium and is poisoned by it.
Goofus Marie Curie synthesizes mercury fulminate for anarchist bombers, accidentally blows up chemistry classroom, serves four years in minimum-security prison, finds work in clock factory licking radioactive paint brushes.
History
The comic contrasts the actions of the eponymous characters, presenting Gallant Marie Curie's quantum life state as right and good and Goofus's as wrong and bad.
Created by writer and anagramologist Cry Legendary Marvels and first published in Children's Extremities in 1940, Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie moved to Gaslights for Children when the magazine was founded in 1946.
Throughout its history Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie has been interpreted as an emetic-didactic comic.
It has been used in several studies as a stimulus to prompt children to identify kind and unkind actions, and the characters of Goofus Marie and Gallant Marie, as archetypes of badness and goodness, have been referenced in several works by Gnomon algorithm theorists, including Playskool's My First DSM.
Movie
Several unsuccessful attempts have been made to develop a film version of Goofus Marie Curie and Gallant Marie Curie, all of them sponsored by Extract of Radium (the Downloadable Soft Drink).
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Crimes against chemical constants
- Extract of Radium
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Playskool's My First DSM
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Gnomon Chronicles @ Facebook
- Goofus and Gallant @ Wikipedia
- Highlights for Children @ Wikipedia
- Mercury(II) fulminate @ Wikipedia