Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 09, 2023
October 06, 2023
October 11, 2023
Transcript:
the winners these comic strips received the most votes from our readers. they will be featured every day in the comics section of your newspaper. pre-classic peanuts girl: today no one remembers, but it was originally i, violet, who yanked the football away as charlie brown ran to kick it. girl: yet somehow over the years lucy, the fuss-budget, the drama queen, usurped my place, leaving me a foote, a cipher in a billion dollar franchise. boy: what a neurotic embittered little girl. girl: i should have been a star! doltish duck duck: hey - do goats really eat tin cans? goat: no. duck: hey - do chickens really stare at the sky during a rainstorm with their beaks open until they drown? chicken: no. goat: what a dolt- oop: hey - are rhino horns really an aphrodisiac - ow that hurt fanky malloon the clown genius fanky: now i take the balloons and- skwik skwik fanky: voila! i call it "pieta"! kids" ooh! kids: now do "the disasters of war" fanky: sure!
Cpeckbourlioux 11 months ago
The kids really dig Fanky. Can’t blame them.
SteveHL 11 months ago
Isn’t it turkeys that allegedly drown in the rain?
prince valiant Premium Member 11 months ago
I remember reading an interview with Charles Schulz many years ago. He mentioned how a character in his cartoon strip could take over the strip and at times, Schulz would just wait on what that character would do. The interviewer was incredulous how a cartoon drawn by Schulz could do that. Violet never had a character that would let her become the dominant female in Peanuts, but Lucy did.
Teto85 Premium Member 11 months ago
Still genius. RIP Mr Thompson.
Sisyphos 11 months ago
Violet was indeed ill-treated by Sparky. I guess the cast was just too large, so some characters had to be furloughed….