When I was little I read this Walt Disney comic where Donald Duck's three nephews--Huey, Dewey and Louie--decided to play hooky. (This comic was the first place where I saw the expression.) They ran away into the countryside, but Donald kept emerging on the horizon unknowingly approaching them in this big truck you could see from a long distance. In the end they entered a lodge that turned out to be hosting a truant officers' convention!
I remember another story where Donald was hosting a fancy garden party and his nephews ended up soaking him and all the guests. There was also a big dog who got soaked and shook off the water right next to the nephews, so they finally got soaked too!
Those were some great comics with Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge, drawn by uncredited genius Carl Barks. There was one adventure where they went into the Andes and found a land where chickens laid square eggs! And there was one where they visited the planet of Valhalla and found Vulcan's forge, where he was turning bricks into gold, (There was indeed a Roman god among these Norse gods.) Uncle Scrooge was pleased, but the nephews figured out that the process was having an odd gravitational effect that was drawing this planet dangerously close to earth, threatening a collision!
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