Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 29, 2022

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    Tyge  over 2 years ago

    Ah! They are at that stage. And pizza! They both like pizza!

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    C  over 2 years ago

    .. is blind

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    SpacedInvader Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Quick learner. Will come in handy in later years.

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    eromlig  over 2 years ago

    “Chinese food.”

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    KenTheCoffinDweller  over 2 years ago

    So is it that Janis, is not a fan of landscape art, or just does not know who he means, but has heard of Picasso? At least I think that the painting that is have seen of a rundown old shack/shanty in a field on the New England coast was a Wyeth painting. Should probably verify that.

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    Prescott_Philosopher   over 2 years ago

    I was on a river boat that had a lot of Picasso drawings. I found them pornograph and didn’t want anyone to see me even looking at them.

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    mywifeslover  over 2 years ago

    I dont have the link but JJ. Created a Wyeth tribute in one Sunday comic strip.

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    Bullet Bronson Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Janis, do you have a favorite hippie? Who is it?

    My guess it’s Arlo.

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    nosirrom  over 2 years ago

    When will Arlo tell her that he would like to recreate a Manet masterpiece.

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    WaitingMan  over 2 years ago

    Edward Hopper for me.

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    djtenltd  over 2 years ago

    He had BETTER agree with her!

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    mountainclimber  over 2 years ago

    I like van Gogh. I don’t think he went to art school.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Clever guy.

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    hk Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I’m surprised he didn’t say Gil Elvgren!

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    [Traveler] Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Picasso makes you appreciate noses that are centered and proportional.

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    BadCreaturesBecomeDems  over 2 years ago

    Salvador Dali. None better.

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    I’mStandingRightHere  over 2 years ago

    I married an art major. We developed some common interest but only had a few to start. We each also have interests that don’t involve the other. Is that the secret to a long marriage? Don’t ask me – we’ve only been together for 42 years, married for 39 this August. Hmm… could she be the one?

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    Thanksfortheinfo2000  over 2 years ago

    I forgot she’s an Art major and thought of Vivaldi.

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    BuckarooDave  over 2 years ago

    anyone know what’s going on with the Arlo&Janis website lately? Seems Jimmy’s been absent for months, and whomever is “moderating” it isn’t allowing comment posts other than from a select few , and only about farm animals, livestock, and sundry non-A&J topics. I’ve tried multiple posts there, and they are not getting posted, while others continue blathering about elk and such.

    Has the site been high-jacked?

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 2 years ago

    A lot in common…but…the mustache must go!

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    kvnkoehler  over 2 years ago

    Picasso was only pornographic during his “Blue” period.

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    dv1093  over 2 years ago

    My favorite artist is Johnny Cash.

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    Barnabus Blackoak  over 2 years ago

    Fave artist ? Norman Rockwell

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    jarvisloop  over 2 years ago

    I realize that this is heresy, but I never cared for Picasso’s later works.

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    jonesbeltone  over 2 years ago

    That and you both think your beautiful, Janis.

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    TaliesinWI  over 2 years ago

    What’s wrong with Andrew Wyeth? He was a very well known regionalist. It’s not like Arlo said “Thomas Kinkade” or something (and yes, I know Kinkade didn’t get popular until the 90s.)

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 2 years ago

    “My favorite painter is Francis Bacon.”

    “Gosh, look at the time! I have to…go clean my refrigerator.”

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    KEA  over 2 years ago

    They should check compatible senses of humor — the most important thing, really.

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    rick92040  over 2 years ago

    I didn’t like any Picasso I’ve ever seen. They just look stupid.

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    Uncle Bob  over 2 years ago

    How can anyone not love this arc?

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    raybarb44  over 2 years ago

    Enough to get married and have a wonderful life together…

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    sjsczurek  over 2 years ago

    Van Gogh. Also Matisse and the Fauves.

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    CougarAllen  over 2 years ago

    This cracks me up, especially the expressions in Panel 2. Beautiful people … we have so much in common …

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PoyyZEaDUyU

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    paul brians  over 2 years ago

    Um—nobody’s discussing the point of the strip. When Arlo mentions Wyeth, popular among the broad public that doesn’t follow modern art trends he sees Janis scowl and quickly switches to Picasso—the the stereotypical “modern artist” among that same public. He doesn’t know or care much about art—he just cares about impressing Janis.

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    This is a GREAT strip. If you look into Andrew Wyeth, he was a painter that worked in the realistic mode. Critics hated him but the public loves his work. Critics in the 20th century were enamored with abstract works like Picasso’s. The strip points out how “aspiring artists” tend to be led around by their noses by self appointed “critics”. And evidently Janis was one of those “aspiring artists”.

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    jr1234  over 2 years ago

    When do they realize they both liked BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S?

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 2 years ago

    “We do and will.”

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    JAE in MN  over 2 years ago

    Seems more clear, at this point, that Arlo and Janis must both be around 66 to 67 years old in the comic’s “current time”— if they were at least college sophomores in 1975 (Janis made a reference last week to now being able to take more electives). And presumably they are both retired by now. I think it’s been ages since any strip ran that depicted them as working in their offices, or that had any reference to work or getting home from work, etc. That was never a big focus of this comic, of course, since it’s a relationship comic and not a workplace comic— but it did pop up now and then, in earlier strips.

    But— they never did resolve the sailboat thing in a final way, did they? I wonder if they are still paying to dock that boat somewhere, while never using it and only setting foot aboard it occasionally to clean it up again?

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    Dawn Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Arlo, and presumably JJ, appreciated Wyeth. See this strip where he published a very well-done memorial: https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2009/2/15?comments=visible&replies=visible&comment_id=34118105

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    Spoonbone  over 2 years ago

    Nice save, Arlo.

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Charles Schulz, for one, probably* preferred Wyeth to Picasso. He was a huge fan (the regard was mutual), and Rerun’s lament “I’ll never be Andrew Wyeth” directly voiced Schulz’s own regret. Who knows? Perhaps Wyeth had at some time said “I’ll never be Charles Schulz.” The comedians all want to sing, and the singers all want to tell jokes.

    *I say “probably” because I have no idea what Schulz’s opinion on Picasso was.

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    brucer31245  over 2 years ago

    Crop tops and hiphuggers. God, that brings back memories of good times in the Valley.

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    lastwyf  over 2 years ago

    So 70s….<3

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    jonswerens  over 2 years ago

    I’m reminded of Jimmy’s fondness for Andrew Wyeth in this Sunday tribute:

    https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2009/02/15

    Which he talked about six years later:

    https://arloandjanis.com/for-what-its-wyeth

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    edeloriea14  over 2 years ago

    I found Pablo Picasso to be surreal with his artwork. If you’re ever in the Daley Plaza in Chicago, you might want to check out that statue known as the Picasso!

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    DaBump Premium Member over 2 years ago

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    The Pro from Dover  over 2 years ago

    Monet and this new cat named Jimmy Johnson

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    amaryllis2 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    One of my favorites is one few have heard of: William Henry Clapp, a Canadian-American who painted in Paris with Monet for awhile and then came home and painted mostly the Berkeley foothills in the Impressionist style. You can see what the Bay Area looked like before it became the Bay Area.

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    mafastore  over 2 years ago

    On paper husband and I should not be together – different ethnic backgrounds, different religions, his family was “girls stay home and be moms” while my family was “girls can do anything”. Mutual love of reading, movies (including old movies), Marx Brothers, and 1940s music have been enough. We both like working at crafts. We also respect what the other likes – I know more about James Bond (including the books) than any woman should and he knows more about “Little Women” and Louisa May Alcott than any man should.

    We both get involved with what the other is interested in. We both like history – but I like the 1500s Britain and he likes the 1700s in the British colonies. We joined a civilian 1770s reenactment unit together (I sewed our clothing) and I get to sit and stitch period embroidery much of the time (now that someone else in our unit took over cooking demonstration) and talk as my 18th century self while he demonstrates period weaving and period pamphlets. I have even filled in on the cannon crew and fired same when he was the unit commander and they were short crewed. It is something we both love to do and I never would have known about it or gotten involved in it if we did not do most things together.

    43 years married coming up – almost 50 years if dating and engagement added in.

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