Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for March 01, 2009

Just keep walking, dude.

Their feet look like birds feet.

birdsters

I thought they were chicks, don’t look too much like hamsters.

they look like fried chicken that ran away

I can’t tell what they are, but whatever they are is something you run away from.

There are days when I wish my life was just a bunch of cartoon cliches. ACME, where are you when I need you???

I knew early on it had to be a dream. Cleo would never allow herself to get into that sort of desert situation. I was thinking along the lines of some sort of spiritual quest.

I love this C&C animation! One of the best, you guys. A whole week of cartoons in one.

Hamster boss says, “you wanna make something of it? With those loose pants”?

Follow that lawn chair!

Well, hello there, Cleo fans and visitors!

You’ve probably figured out we’re talking about

the MARCH FIRST (!!)  2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”

But if not… click here to see it on Sherpa:

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Be happy,Cleo… at least you didn’t slip on a banana peel….

or get boiled in a witch’s caldron or a cannibal’s giant dinner pot.

You didn’t walk 10 feet straight out from a cliff, look down, and then fall…

nor were you mugged by a felon wearing striped “jail pajamas” and a black satin eye mask.

However…. you did later get stranded on a so-called “desert island”…. (dunno why they’re called that when they always have a palm tree).

You escaped on a word balloon with Clara and Claude….

and… oh, wait…. I think that was a dream too.

Sigh….

Anyway…. the hamsters may have started stealing full size lawn furniture after Howard went out of business,

and they didn’t have anyplace to buy it in their own size any more.

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Silly of him to aim all his promotions at mice, and not advertise in the “Hamster Times.”

And if anybody is bothered by the hamsters “chicken feet”….

remember that Jerry Van A draws dog feet the same way, only more plump….

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Even his human feet also have a bit pointing backwards at the heel.

Maybe he went to the Ballard Evening College of Art and Poultry Farming… it’s a “cheep” way to get an education.

I hear a lot of the Life Drawing models they can afford to hire at BECA&PF are barnyard fowl, cos they work for chicken feed.

It could be worse. You could be living it

My Favorite Part™ was sᴛᴇʟʙᴇʟ ᴀɴɪᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ sᴛᴜᴅɪᴏ

Go back to sleep Cleo!♡ sweeter dreams!!!

Love the animation today. Well done Stel.

OMG! That desert scene looks soooooooooooo inviting right now! Sun! Dry land! Warm!!!!! And, I can see that Nighthawks is quoting Nighthawks: ARRGGHH! Great fun, NH and SB.

Okay, now that we got all those out of the way…………

Or, possibly, tyrannical lawn furniture is oppressing hamsters. :)

3/1: Nice Pythonesque touch.

This comment refers directly to this day’s Ballard Street and is unrelated to any of the seemingly endless morass of comments from 5 or so years ago by a group of posters who apparently couldn’t find a better place to conduct their private forum.