Early examples of funny characters in literature can be found in Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville's Les Métamorphoses du Jour (1828-1829), a series of illustrations which anthropomorphized humans as animals  and in the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with rabbits such as the White Rabbit and the March Hare.
Peter Rabbit is another funny rabbit, created by Beatrix Potter.

The oldest funny animal comic strip is James Swinnerton's The Little Bears, which debuted in 1892.
 The earliest example of funny animals in a British comic strip was Arthur White's Jungle Jinks (1898-1947), which featured a group of school children, anthropomorphized as animals.
The comic strip ran in Playbox, a supplement of Home Chat, for years.
 Jungle Jinks in particular paved the way for a whole stream of British comics about funny characters, such as Tiger Tim, Teddy Tail and Rupert Bear.

An early example of a novel which made exclusive use of funny animals was the 1908 children's book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
This story featured the character Mr. Toad who is human in almost every sense, except physical appearance.
Other characters in the book, such as a mole, water rat, and otter, are also act very similar to humans, with the exception of preferring their species' native habitats.
The mole, for example, lives underground, but in a finished home.

In the United States the most well known funny animal comic was Krazy Kat (1913) by George Herriman.
It featured a cat, a mouse Ignatz and a dog police officer named Offissa Pup.
 Animated cartoons also inspired a whole industry of comic strips and comic books based on funny characters, often produced under license, such as Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny.

The 1945 novel Animal Farm by George Orwell notably features several talking characters who transition to bipedal, clothes-wearing funny characters by the end of the story.

In the 1940s, Fawcett Comics published a comic book entitled Funny Animals, featuring such characters as Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, an anthropomorphic rabbit version of Captain Marvel.

Charles M. Schulz's dog character Snoopy from Peanuts and the title cat character of Jim Davis's comic strip Garfield are non-speaking pets, so are not funny animals by the above definition; however they both came to develop some funny animal-like traits.
They both were initially depicted as quadrupedal, but became increasingly bipedal and anthropomorphic as the respective strips progressed.
Snoopy in particular started out as an entirely quadrupedal character in 1950, and was not depicted with any thought balloon dialogue at all; but by the late 1960s he frequently expressed his thoughts with thought balloons, and was frequently shown walking on two legs, writing books, playing baseball as a shortstop, and sometimes wearing some clothes when he indulged in his various fantasy lives.
A significant example of the latter trait is Snoopy's pretend college student persona, Joe Cool, which first featured in a 1971 strip; as Joe Cool, Snoopy wears a sweater and sunglasses.

Instead of verbalizing as humans would with speech balloon, Snoopy, Garfield, and some of the other animal characters in both of the strips instead use thought balloons to convey messages.
This tactic allows for the relationship between human and animal to be ambiguous, as it may not be clear if the human can understand what the animal is thinking.
In both strips, animal characters are shown to converse with each other through their thought balloon dialogue.
When the Peanuts specials were adapted for television, producers opted to not verbalize Snoopy's thoughts through voice acting, instead opting to have him communicate his feelings in a pantomime fashion.
The only exceptions to this are in the animated adaptions of the stage musicals You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!
The Musical, where Snoopy's inner monologue is voice acted.
Another way Snoopy has communicated in various Peanuts animated works, as well as in the original comic strip, is when Snoopy make
Early examples of funny characters in literature can be found in Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville's Les Métamorphoses du Jour (1828-1829), a series of illustrations which anthropomorphized humans as animals  and in the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll with rabbits such as the White Rabbit and the March Hare. Peter Rabbit is another funny rabbit, created by Beatrix Potter.
The oldest funny animal comic strip is James Swinnerton's The Little Bears, which debuted in 1892.  The earliest example of funny animals in a British comic strip was Arthur White's Jungle Jinks (1898-1947), which featured a group of school children, anthropomorphized as animals. The comic strip ran in Playbox, a supplement of Home Chat, for years.  Jungle Jinks in particular paved the way for a whole stream of British comics about funny characters, such as Tiger Tim, Teddy Tail and Rupert Bear.
An early example of a novel which made exclusive use of funny animals was the 1908 children's book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. This story featured the character Mr. Toad who is human in almost every sense, except physical appearance. Other characters in the book, such as a mole, water rat, and otter, are also act very similar to humans, with the exception of preferring their species' native habitats. The mole, for example, lives underground, but in a finished home.
In the United States the most well known funny animal comic was Krazy Kat (1913) by George Herriman. It featured a cat, a mouse Ignatz and a dog police officer named Offissa Pup.  Animated cartoons also inspired a whole industry of comic strips and comic books based on funny characters, often produced under license, such as Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny.
The 1945 novel Animal Farm by George Orwell notably features several talking characters who transition to bipedal, clothes-wearing funny characters by the end of the story.
In the 1940s, Fawcett Comics published a comic book entitled Funny Animals, featuring such characters as Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, an anthropomorphic rabbit version of Captain Marvel.
Charles M. Schulz's dog character Snoopy from Peanuts and the title cat character of Jim Davis's comic strip Garfield are non-speaking pets, so are not funny animals by the above definition; however they both came to develop some funny animal-like traits. They both were initially depicted as quadrupedal, but became increasingly bipedal and anthropomorphic as the respective strips progressed. Snoopy in particular started out as an entirely quadrupedal character in 1950, and was not depicted with any thought balloon dialogue at all; but by the late 1960s he frequently expressed his thoughts with thought balloons, and was frequently shown walking on two legs, writing books, playing baseball as a shortstop, and sometimes wearing some clothes when he indulged in his various fantasy lives. A significant example of the latter trait is Snoopy's pretend college student persona, Joe Cool, which first featured in a 1971 strip; as Joe Cool, Snoopy wears a sweater and sunglasses.
Instead of verbalizing as humans would with speech balloon, Snoopy, Garfield, and some of the other animal characters in both of the strips instead use thought balloons to convey messages. This tactic allows for the relationship between human and animal to be ambiguous, as it may not be clear if the human can understand what the animal is thinking. In both strips, animal characters are shown to converse with each other through their thought balloon dialogue. When the Peanuts specials were adapted for television, producers opted to not verbalize Snoopy's thoughts through voice acting, instead opting to have him communicate his feelings in a pantomime fashion. The only exceptions to this are in the animated adaptions of the stage musicals You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy! The Musical, where Snoopy's inner monologue is voice acted. Another way Snoopy has communicated in various Peanuts animated works, as well as in the original comic strip, is when Snoopy make
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