Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 08, 2013
July 07, 2013
July 09, 2013
Transcript:
Janis: Sometimes it seems to me as if time passes like...that! Arlo: Don't act so surprised! After all, how long have we been talking here? Janis: I don't know - five seconds? Arlo: In a comic strip, that's one entire day! Janis: What do you mean? Arlo: There's no time to explain it!
I have enjoyed comic strips since the 1950’s and my tastes are very eclectic (you know, I like different kinds of strips), . I really liked Calvin and Hobbes, I really like Frazz (note the juxtaposition!!!), I’ve followed Brenda, and Gil and Winnie, Moon and Mandrake, Orphan Annie and Annie Rooney, Terry and Dick, Charlie Malarkey and Charlie Brown. Dilbert because I live that life every day. And the odd ones no one remembers like Smidgens and PJ McFey. But I have an especial affinity to strips that try to take into account real life, show character growth, and wink occasionally at the audience. Not like Dondi who was stuck in 3rd grade and 1958, like forever, but like Walt Wallet and Skeezix (who is my living mother’s age), Chipper and Clovia, their relatives, friends (and with people who actually pass away) and their real life adventures, even the weird one or two. Arlo and Janis is my current favorite because it meets all that, and today’s strip is the epitome (look it up) of all that I like. (reminds me of a ‘madcap Manhattan weekend’)