The Shakespeares were engaged in attempting to steal sonnets from Christopher Marlowe, who in one scene had left them out on the windowsill "to cool". Eventually they were given a slap-up meal by Francis Bacon: "Slobber. Our favourite – dramatic monologues composed in iambic decasyllabic blank verse. And mash." References Beano strips Fictional hillbillies Fictional families Fictional bears Western (genre) comics characters Humor comics Gag-a-day comics Comics spin-offs Comics about married people Comics about bears Comics about animals British comics characters 1959 comics debuts Comics characters introduced in 1959 2011 comics endings Comics set in Texas Works based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears