Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 11, 2023

Ohhoho is gil’s marriage in danger again? I don’t know why i’m enjoying this so much.

So, what’s happening in Scottsdale?

…who is conspicuous by her absence.

And my lovely wife … AWOL.

Nice bleed over between P2 and P3. And Gil’s red, white and blue in P1 is completely appropriate. But another Runaway Bride thread? :(

P4 While Gil, the sixty-five time COTY award winner, bloviates at the podium, Emily excuses herself and steps out the side door to meet Erika who’s waiting in the parking lot so they can work on their strokes and putting it in the holes consistently.

A drunken Marty Moon stagers to his feet and yells In All Reality , Bars Open, Thorp’s Buying and the crowd goes wild !

Maybe Emily is with Memaw.

I know my name is literally “Sign” Man, but that doesn’t mean I don’t also do engravings. WHAT KIND OF HALF-ASS ATTEMPT AT LETTERING IS ON THAT THE AWARD? I don’t think it even has the correct year!

P1- Who’s Truly? Gil continues to be a man about town and abroad.

P2- The only accessory missing from Keri’s outfit is Beau Dandy’s top hat.

P3- aannnddd my lovely wife Emily. The glue that keeps this family sticking together. So she tells me.

Poor Emily. Sucked out of the window by the giant Space Lizard tongue.

Keri should just stick to wearing the ripped jeans and t shirt

where’s Pedro ?

She’s run off with Luke.

So this is taking place in 2021? Or have they recycled an old trophy that was laying around?

Are divorce papers still valid after sitting around for a year. Memaw must be in heaven,

Do vegans eat ice cream?

Looks like someone hurriedly wrote the award on that cup just seconds before handing it to Gil. And speaking of handing, you’ve got to hand it to Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2023/07/11/gils-practically-owns-the-venue/

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy (with Gil’s entire family no-shows at his big awards ceremony), the second time as farce (Gil’s kids there to cheer him on but Mimi off somewhere else, presumably banging her golf coach).

Side bets on Gill drowning his sorrows with the bartender again this year ?

“… my son Jami, who stinks at sports, my daughter Keri, who throws hands every chance she gets, and my wife Emily who…uh, who…um uh….she must be in the ladies room…”

Colorist error in panel 2 or are the kids getting a Joseph Gribble retcon?

Emily? What happened to Mimi?

Last year the trophy was shaped like a Christmas tree, not at all like this year’s trophy.

“…as her new girlfriend calls her…”

That tramp traded in 90 year old Gil for badass Luke!

I’d laugh if some bruiser escorted him off stage a la The Academy Awards because his acceptance speech rambled too long.

Vito from Goshen said he left the after-party at 3 am when the waitresses from the diner were lined up giving Gil lap dances. The bartender from last year put a cowboy hat on Gil and hollered “Who’s the Sherriff!”