Gumby as he appeared in "The Tricky Train" (still extracted from the Web-Ed's cartoon collection, believe it or not!).
Art by Lyndal Ferguson. Posted by the Web-Ed on 10/26/2012.
Probably the last character you'd ever expect to see giving a spanking is Gumby. Gumby is a clay figure animated through the stop-motion technique whose children's television show started back in 1955 and became familiar to at least two generations of children. Although a seemingly unlikely spanker, Gumby is definitely one of the good guys, and the job of the good guys is to spank the bad girls, to paraphrase Wally Wood. Our spankee here looks to be a very bad girl indeed, what with the horns and all, and surely deserves everything she's going to get from that clay hand of his.
We think it's safe to say that no one other than Lyndal Ferguson could have conceived of this one. We've seen Lyndal's work on CSR before, and in the past he's provided us with other unlikely spankers such as Mr. Monster and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Delightful as spanking combinations such as, say, Batman/Batgirl or Superman/Wonder Woman may be, anyone could think of them, but probably only Lyndal would come up with the ones he has.
