Red and Rover by Brian Basset for June 26, 2020

Those are some killer sun spots, Red!

Rover’s a poet and doesn’t know it!

ANOTHER GREAT ADVENTURE APPROACHING

Oooo, very poetical dogfriend.

If this comic is set in the 60’s, then mom is way ahead of her time.

Good Mama! :D

What about Rover? Yellow labs are pretty fair skinned…

“Call it what you must so you don’t turn to dust” is my new motto.

Rover needs no protection.

“Nothing looks better in your 50’s than sun screen in your 20’s”

My mom always tossed me out the door without sunscreen and I got burned more times than I can count. I have a million moles and freckles and can’t count how many things I have had removed from my skin when they looked suspicious to my doctor. When I see younger guys in the gym locker room without shirts on who have no moles or freckles because sunscreen use was more widespread when they were kids, I get envious.

Lather him up good so he doesn’t dare get any Vitamin D-3. That’s why our kids are so sickly now…. sunblock.

You should be grateful, Red.

Mom is at least watching over them this Summer! That’s a good thing!

This one is a bit anachronistic, but you have to bow to the corporate reality of desiring to model good behavior. Moms putting sunscreen on kids back in the 60s and early 70s would be about as common as personal computers back then. Even doctors in that era believed in the benefits of a “good healthy tan” as they used to call it…

Won’t that wash off with the water?

Back in the 50-60’s we mixed baby oil with iodine and baked in the sun….bronzy tan….

Anti solar radiation lotion is a better name for it.

I regularly tanned without any sunscreen in the 80s. Many years ago, I had 5 skin cancer operations.