I’m Dead, Dammit

Art Clokey once was a 6-foot man of clay. But now Art Clokey has started to decay. Art Clo-key! The man who gave us the pliant, book-hopping, robot-murdering Gumby, his sturdy and wiser friend Pokey, the evil Blockheads and the flying, shape-shifting, ball-spitting mermaid Goo, who may have been Gumby’s drug-induced hallucination, has died in his sleep at the age of 88. Not content to be entertaining, Clokey also felt a need to proselytize, through the addled Davey and his genius talking dog Goliath.