Jim Henson's 1969 Take on 'The Wizard of Id' is Magical

"Like a lot of nearly 50-year-old fixtures of the Sunday funnies, Brant Parker and Johnny Hart's syndicated The Wizard of Id comic strip has always resonated with me more as a snapshot of a cartooning era gone by than, say, an ambitious social commentary (I had to look up what a "fink" was when I was a kid). Back in 1969, the eager strip was still a buzzing commodity, though. It was hot enough, even, that a young Jim Henson and Don Sahlin (famed Muppet designer) worked on a short test pilot for the series featuring main characters The King, The Wizard and Spook."

[via comics alliance]