Friday

Why in Database: Friday is a turtle character appearing in Rabbit-Son Crusoe stories, published in Zoo Funnies (in issues1-15, Crusoe comics are in all except sixth). The title character is a rabbit version of Robinsone Crusoe, and Friday is the turtle version of Friday.

Friday is less polished than his new companion when it comes to the “big world”, but obviously he has a lot of experience in the “how to survive on his island”.

Zoo Funnies #01: Introduction of the characters, on the first page we learn that the rabbit is a shipwrecked person, on the last frame of the second page a turtle appears for the first time. On the following pages, the characters get acquainted with each other, we learn the turtle’s name, and at the end the turtle goes home to sleep – however, the rabbit’s hopes turn out to be futile, because the turtle’s home is his shell. Having no choice, rabbit lies down next to him, resting his head on the turtle as if on a pillow. In addition, right after this comic there are two fictionalized pages with puzzles, also with these two characters.

Zoo Funnies #02: The cover and five pages, the rabbit and the turtle are starving, the situations are saved by the appearance of a chicken, but neither of them has the guts to kill him. The chicken lays eggs and they eat them.

Zoo Funnies #03: Cover, five pages. The rabbit tries to escape, makes a boat, but lands back at the starting point.

Zoo Funnies #04: Cover, 5 pages. They find traces of a monkey on the island and, in order to capture it, the rabbit makes a trap – turtle is scpetic about this. Finally, when they see the monkeys, they run away and use their own trap to hide in it.

Zoo Funnies #05: Five pages, a simple story where a cyclone floods the island, a turtle saves a rabbit, finally the island rises back from under the water:

Zoo Funnies #06: Issue without Friday.

Zoo Funnies #07: The heroes enter the ship they spotted, though Friday warns that it is a ghost ship. And of course, they go back to the island at the end. :

Zoo Funnies #08: Six pages! A story with a newcomer from the navy who wants to collect taxes. Rabbit complains, that he still eats fish, and after struggling with building a prison (to live on bread and water), Rabbit ends up with a gift, a box of food. Canned sardines.

Zoo Funnies #09: Six pages, a story in which they helps a laughing hyena, a rabbit makes her depressed, so she doesn’t laugh anymore.

Zoo Funnies #10: We only know about the cover, we haven’t seen the inside:

Zoo Funnies #11: Five pages, a rabbit hits its head and thinks it is a giants killer and wants to fight with an island-dwelling giant. :

Zoo Funnies #12: Six pages. Two criminals come to the island, the heroes meet one, the boss, but they think that he is a small child. :

Zoo Funnies #13: Six pages, a sailor comes to the island, wanting to settle there and give them his ship in return – but the rabbit does not own the island, so nothing comes of it. :