Okay, I admit it : this time, I'm cheating. A bit. I mean, Mickey Mouse? But actually, I'm not cheating that much. There are a lot of characters getting tied up in Disney comics. Happens all the time! And of course, in the lot, there are mature and older men. Sure, those "older men" are cartoons. But so what? They are no more or less real than, say, Odin, J. Jonah Jameson or Commissioner Gordon. And sometimes, they can be damn sexy.
Such is Cloclo, a mariner who keeps telling jokes, in the story "Le Joyeux Marin !" ("The Merry Mariner") by Michel Motti (script) and Gen-Clo (art) which originally appeared in Le Journal de Mickey 1831 (July the 28th 1987). Being bound hand and foot by the bad guys doesn't faze him, probably because he can keep telling his jokes - he hasn't been gagged. Since the resolution of the good guys' predicament involves him telling a joke that makes Goofy laugh, causing one of the bad guys to fall in a sinkhole, it's a good thing he wasn't.
Now the funny thing - well, one of the funny things - about Cloclo, is that this one-shot character was actually based on a real person, Disney artist Claude Marin. So maybe he was a little more real than some of those characters drawn in a "realistic" art style, after all?
