Smokey Stover

Smokey Stover was a semi-surreal newspaper comic strip drawn by Bill Holman from March 10, 1935 until he retired in 1973, and distributed through the Chicago Tribune. It featured Smokey the firefighter, in his two-wheel firetruck called "The Foomobile", his wife Cookie, with the questionmark pompadour, odd bits of philosophy, and recurrent signs reading "Notary Sojac" and "1066 Nix Nix". "Foo" was one of these recurring nonsense words and was taken up by World War II's "Foo Fighters".