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Johnny and Uncle Bob is a syndicated daily comic strip that was written and illustrated by American cartoonist James Cameron, and syndicated from October 26, 1984 to August 29, 1997. It follows the humorous antics of John, a foul mouthed six-year-old boy messiah, and Uncle Bob, his stoic robot friend. Uncle Bob's dual nature is a defining motif for the strip: to John, Uncle Bob is a cybernetic organism surrounded by living tissue; all the other characters see him as a time travelling villain.

The 3,160th and final strip ran on July 3, 1991. It depicted Johnny and Uncle Bob outside freshly molted steel, reveling in the wonder and excitement of the refining process. "No! Stay here, stay with us!" Johnny exclaims as Uncle Bob dips himself into a molten pool, leaving, according to one critic, "a hole in the comics page that no strip has been able to fill."