My daughter and I are leaving tomorrow on a trip from Arizona to Missouri to see the solar eclipse. I’ll have my 8" Celestron telescope with me and I hope to get a bunch of great pictures. Catch you all when I get back! (And save me some toe beans!)
Today’s strips makes me think of Cyndi Lauper’s “She ’s so Unusual” as well as Calliope from my Mom’s favorite soap in the ’80s “Days of our Lives”. Her boyfriend /husband on Days was Eugene, played by John de Lancie who also played Q on Star Trek TNG, Voyager, DS9 , Picard etc…… Anyhow RIP Arleen Sorkin (Calliope).
I love Georgia’s shout out to the “weird” ones. Or more correctly, one who stands apart from the crowd. I’m not sure how, but if there is a way, the BCN crew will get our introverted, creative house cat fixed up with our introspective, “weird” raccoon!
“Weird” is relative, and anyway, you racoons have always struck me as having a bit of a “weird” side yourselves. A good kind of weird, mind you, but still definable as weird. ;)
Sophititi: Thank you, guys for hanging the tapestry.
Iggy: No problem, glad to do it.
Beatrixia: So here’s the deal. We climb onto the tapestry and read to the audience, who are seated in this little area in the stadium. I’m working on the reading schedule.
Iron Glove: I CAN’T WAIT TO READ MIKE MOLEGAN AND HIS SHOVEL!
Wally (Awhil-Fixit the Seventh): Yeah! I really dig that story.
Iggy: I understand King Montgomery and Queen Lisa will be here for the reading.
Iron Glove: LOVE IT! NO PRESSURE!
Maat-Tilda: I’ll be reading _Classic Crafts: How to be Creative _
Bea: And Puck will be reading Erma Bombosis’ Wait Until You Have Kittens of Your Own.
I mean, for cat’s sake, we all follow a cartoon strip about an extremely cute & fuzzy broadcast station.
Additionally, at least one of us (not mentioning any names) writes books about cats solving crimes! At least one person told the author that those books and the author were bat-crap crazy.
“Normality” is overrated.
The world can be bleak, and life can get you down. Find someone in this crazy world who gives you your zing! Go out and make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
And if you are called “weird,”…wear it as a badge of honor.
OT! My OpEd to the Washington Post printed today. Titled, “More Comics, Please!” Slightly shorter than I wished, but I hope the women artists who did not make the list were because they were edited out by the Post as my article was too long. YIPPEE!!! I did it!!!
I was in Goose Creek SC when the last path of totality swept through. A friend of hours came down to camp in our living room so he could take pictures. When the sun was almost 1/2 covered clouds boiled out of the north with thunder and lightning and we were barely able to get the telescope and associated equipment under the shelter of the covered walkway of our apartment complex. It kept raining hard through totality and most of the exit of the moon, and the clouds persisted until evening. We watched the eclipse on the TV, and when the local news came on all it was was bragging about how wonderful the eclipse was down on the beach, up in Hanahan, and Goose Creek!!! The bedammt thunderstorm was practically sitting on top of us and virtually stationary! We couldn’t even get outside to appreciate the darkness! Our friend was bummed but made the best of it and we had fun the rest of his visit. Our goal was to move back to Texas before this eclipse popped up. Here it is, less than 3 months until the eclipse for which we were in the path of totality, and I had to get up and move to La Marque, Texas, where it may be 95%. Okay, 95% is good, but it’s probably going to be raining. Sigh. ‘Man proposes, God laughs’ is an apt description of my plans right now. Better luck to the rest of you!!!
Ricky – Good luck and wish I could take a picture of the eclipse. I will be able to get pictures of the eclipse shadows. They are really neat – very artist, and other worldly.
uncle snipe 7 months ago
Gutter, you’re a Raccoon after my own heart. The weird ones are the special ones. Anybody can fall for a “normal” girl.
Le'letha Premium Member 7 months ago
I think Sophie would REALLY admire those shoulder pads. They just need to be part of a story!
McColl34 Premium Member 7 months ago
“I mean, yeah, she’s all into recycling and repurposing trash and all that, but she’s a cat . . . a weird cat.”
“I know, isn’t she perfect?”
Le'letha Premium Member 7 months ago
…this raises the question: does Sophie sell her artwork? Does she have a Petsy site?
Ricky Bennett 7 months ago
My daughter and I are leaving tomorrow on a trip from Arizona to Missouri to see the solar eclipse. I’ll have my 8" Celestron telescope with me and I hope to get a bunch of great pictures. Catch you all when I get back! (And save me some toe beans!)
Jacob Mattingly 7 months ago
I love awkward mag so much. It’s a side I never expected but it’s fun though see her off her game entirely unable to actually help.
BarbaraKrooss 7 months ago
Why does this remind me of the “Well, nobody’s perfect” ending line in Some Like it Hot?
AllishaDawn 7 months ago
‘Weird cat’ is redundant. Trust me, I know!
dmah Premium Member 7 months ago
Raccoons have such expressive hands. I love how Gutter awkwardly twiddles his fingers in the last panel.
FreyjaRN Premium Member 7 months ago
Sounds like a great match!
Sue Ellen 7 months ago
Could Mags and Baba find a way to get these two weird ones together?
TampaFanatic1 7 months ago
Today’s strips makes me think of Cyndi Lauper’s “She ’s so Unusual” as well as Calliope from my Mom’s favorite soap in the ’80s “Days of our Lives”. Her boyfriend /husband on Days was Eugene, played by John de Lancie who also played Q on Star Trek TNG, Voyager, DS9 , Picard etc…… Anyhow RIP Arleen Sorkin (Calliope).
WelshRat Premium Member 7 months ago
Oh, dear. This is hard for him.
Charles 7 months ago
Raccoons eat cats.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member 7 months ago
I just noticed that the Queen has birds in the cans on her shoulders. Good art critics.
artchick530 7 months ago
I love Georgia’s shout out to the “weird” ones. Or more correctly, one who stands apart from the crowd. I’m not sure how, but if there is a way, the BCN crew will get our introverted, creative house cat fixed up with our introspective, “weird” raccoon!
Daltongang Premium Member 7 months ago
Ah yes, the drama that surrounds unrequited love, especially unrequited raccoon love.
scyphi26 7 months ago
“Weird” is relative, and anyway, you racoons have always struck me as having a bit of a “weird” side yourselves. A good kind of weird, mind you, but still definable as weird. ;)
Kitty Katz 7 months ago
Meanwhile, Back on the Nile
At the Literary Fair
Sophititi: Thank you, guys for hanging the tapestry.
Iggy: No problem, glad to do it.
Beatrixia: So here’s the deal. We climb onto the tapestry and read to the audience, who are seated in this little area in the stadium. I’m working on the reading schedule.
Iron Glove: I CAN’T WAIT TO READ MIKE MOLEGAN AND HIS SHOVEL!
Wally (Awhil-Fixit the Seventh): Yeah! I really dig that story.
Iggy: I understand King Montgomery and Queen Lisa will be here for the reading.
Iron Glove: LOVE IT! NO PRESSURE!
Maat-Tilda: I’ll be reading _Classic Crafts: How to be Creative _
Bea: And Puck will be reading Erma Bombosis’ Wait Until You Have Kittens of Your Own.
Adobe Style: What will you be reading, Bea?
Bea: My favorite: Paddle to the Nile. What else?
rs0204 Premium Member 7 months ago
Who isn’t weird?
I mean, for cat’s sake, we all follow a cartoon strip about an extremely cute & fuzzy broadcast station.
Additionally, at least one of us (not mentioning any names) writes books about cats solving crimes! At least one person told the author that those books and the author were bat-crap crazy.
“Normality” is overrated.
The world can be bleak, and life can get you down. Find someone in this crazy world who gives you your zing! Go out and make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
And if you are called “weird,”…wear it as a badge of honor.
old_geek 7 months ago
I’m quite grateful for one that could take weird into their life….
ladykat 7 months ago
Be weird, Sophie and Gutter. Normal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Kitty Katz 7 months ago
Glen Frey: The One You Love
I know you think you love a happy ferret
Someone who runs around, whose life’s a breeze
Somehow I don’t know, I have a suspicion
That his one true love is really cheese!
…….
Your heart keeps saying that he’s the one
But disappointment you may find!
…….
Are you gonna stay with the one who loves cheese
Or are you gonna look and then really see?
Someone’s there for you, and he really loves you
Someone lives for Swiss, Provolone, and Brie!
bryan42 7 months ago
Lovestruck Gutter entirely gets it: weird people are the absolute best!!!
The Wolf In Your Midst 7 months ago
We’re all weird to somebody.
Hedgehog 7 months ago
Eccentrically weird.
bonita.eley 7 months ago
Sometimes wierd is very attractive!
alreadyinuse 7 months ago
I learned a new word today.
mousefumanchu Premium Member 7 months ago
Faint heart never won fair maid.
old_geek 7 months ago
You and me, babe, how about it
Arrgghhhh, I still have that earworm from yesterday’s BCN.
I AM CARTOON LADY! 7 months ago
Awwww! Look at that face!
Red Bird 7 months ago
There’s nothing wrong with being weird. It makes life way more exciting.
scaeva Premium Member 7 months ago
Queen Mags, that is the pot calling the kettle “black.” How about some practical advice on how to deal with the situation?
Fennec! at the Disco 7 months ago
His downcast ears as he mentions liking her!
vlbrown Premium Member 7 months ago
And the raccoons Aren’t “weird”???
willie_mctell 7 months ago
I completely understand his attraction to Sophie.
crazeekatlady 7 months ago
OT! My OpEd to the Washington Post printed today. Titled, “More Comics, Please!” Slightly shorter than I wished, but I hope the women artists who did not make the list were because they were edited out by the Post as my article was too long. YIPPEE!!! I did it!!!
Katzen1415 7 months ago
How lovely! The best we can hope for is someone who likes us because of our quirks.
Quabaculta 7 months ago
I was in Goose Creek SC when the last path of totality swept through. A friend of hours came down to camp in our living room so he could take pictures. When the sun was almost 1/2 covered clouds boiled out of the north with thunder and lightning and we were barely able to get the telescope and associated equipment under the shelter of the covered walkway of our apartment complex. It kept raining hard through totality and most of the exit of the moon, and the clouds persisted until evening. We watched the eclipse on the TV, and when the local news came on all it was was bragging about how wonderful the eclipse was down on the beach, up in Hanahan, and Goose Creek!!! The bedammt thunderstorm was practically sitting on top of us and virtually stationary! We couldn’t even get outside to appreciate the darkness! Our friend was bummed but made the best of it and we had fun the rest of his visit. Our goal was to move back to Texas before this eclipse popped up. Here it is, less than 3 months until the eclipse for which we were in the path of totality, and I had to get up and move to La Marque, Texas, where it may be 95%. Okay, 95% is good, but it’s probably going to be raining. Sigh. ‘Man proposes, God laughs’ is an apt description of my plans right now. Better luck to the rest of you!!!
stairsteppublishing 7 months ago
Ricky – Good luck and wish I could take a picture of the eclipse. I will be able to get pictures of the eclipse shadows. They are really neat – very artist, and other worldly.
maggijoseph Premium Member 7 months ago
Gutter’s ear in the last panel. And the chickadee who is an art critic!