The Pink Panther has orchestrated a successful comeback and added luster to his star status with a recent hit film with Steve Martin (and another promised), plus an all-new run in the Sunday funnies. The peculiar feline is depicted in a wide variety of surreal, mostly silent settings in the offerings by Bill and Eric Teitelbaum, the cartoonists behind a daily business strip, Bottom Liners.
Returning from the cast of The Pink Panther movie house cartoons is his foil, the (apparently) unnamed, little, all-white guy. To clarify that stooge's presence, the infamous Inspector Clouseau had his own spinoff cartoon series in the '60s, The Inspector, so he was unavailable to be the butt of the Pink Panther's gags. In the comic strip, however, Clouseau makes occasional appearances, as do the Ant and the Aardvark, characters from a third, yet unrelated United Artists cartoon series.
The current Pink Panther of the week can be seen at goComics, along with a color archive.
