Characters from 1930s comic Smokey Stover (left) and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl (right)
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The cultural impact of comic strips such as Peanuts and Garfield may be easy to recognize, while others left marks on pop culture that are more subtle, though no less worthy of recognition. This is best illustrated by the connection between an all-but-forgotten 1930s comic strip, UFO lore, and one of the most successful rock bands in the world, the Foo Fighters.
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Far from meaningless, as it might seem at first, in Smokey Stover "foo" had whatever meaning it needed in any given panel. As with his other linguistic peculiarities, Holman's use of "foo" was ever-protean, constantly adapting – in the process, giving it an elusive quality. In other words, the precise meaning of "foo" is impossible to identify.
As it turns out, cartoons had another notable influence on UFOlogy, just several years after the emergence of the term "foo fighters." Readers familiar with the search for extraterrestrial life will have heard of the Fermi Paradox: the idea that statistically, the size and density of the universe suggest that it should be full of life, and yet from the perspective of Earth's attempts to discover life outside the solar system so far, space seems to be shockingly empty.
Dunn's otherwise innocuous cartoon led to Fermi's speculation about the absence of evident life in the universe. Once again, this is evidence of the cartoon medium's early and regular profound effect on wider culture. Though comics – and really, all media – were considered ephemera, to be enjoyed and discarded, by people for much of the 20th century, it is only in retrospect that we can recognize the lasting contributions of artists like Bill Holman and Alan Dunn to the modern world.
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