Wait just a wool-and-polyester-blend-pickin’ minute!
These disembodied captions sound so authoritative…
But from whom does this advice actually come?
Some of you probably are going to say it’s from the cartoonist, Jerry Van Amerongen… but consider this:
He can just draw his characters doing whatever he thinks best… no need to advise them in captions.
So does it come from Gene’s girlfriend, Margie Lou?
Is she saying he should look more closely at WHAT he wears?
She’s been known to roll an eyeball or two when he shows up to take her to something important, like the Swing Dance Club Spring Social and Sauerkraut Festival, dressed all in pink, for instance.
Or does it come from the West Ballard County SweaterWorks… proud sponsors…. indeed purveyors…. of the Motto-of-the Month-Sweater Club….
whose product Gene sports in this picture.
In which case the caption means “Pay more attention to what your clothes are saying, Gene.”
Wait just a wool-and-polyester-blend-pickin’ minute!
These disembodied captions sound so authoritative…
But from whom does this advice actually come?
Some of you probably are going to say it’s from the cartoonist, Jerry Van Amerongen… but consider this:
He can just draw his characters doing whatever he thinks best… no need to advise them in captions.
So does it come from Gene’s girlfriend, Margie Lou?
Is she saying he should look more closely at WHAT he wears?
She’s been known to roll an eyeball or two when he shows up to take her to something important, like the Swing Dance Club Spring Social and Sauerkraut Festival, dressed all in pink, for instance.
Or does it come from the West Ballard County SweaterWorks… proud sponsors…. indeed purveyors…. of the Motto-of-the Month-Sweater Club….
whose product Gene sports in this picture.
In which case the caption means “Pay more attention to what your clothes are saying, Gene.”
That is to say, right now…. “lighten UP, Gene!”