Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 19, 2009

You could also exercise the discipline….

Maybe there’s a newspaper strike on.

& you could try a little exercise period.

It’s hard to find a good dish washer these days.

It’s a little late for discipline, isn’t it, Marge?

Speaking of discipline, I take it Cleo is giving us a bit of down-home fiddle playing rather than stuffed shirt (or dress) violin jockeying.

And speaking of dresses, isn’t an off-the-shoulder number a little risque for our fair Cleo?

This way to Cleo and Company!

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

No promises, but Monday is usually a new strip!

stonehenge1951 said it 10 years ago: “It’s hard to find a good dish washer these days.” Marge, don’t interfere with the help!

It may not be the tiniest violin in the world, but it comes close.

Yay…. looks like another new one to me…

in the “Cleo Plays an Instrument” series.

I don’t know a whole lot about instruments….

but it seems that what we first take for a violin is really a miniature double bass…. or at least, she’s playing it that way.

Does that mean it’s a bassette?

Love that she dresses so tastefully for her concerts….

classical attire for a violinist….

though a touch of purplie eye-shadow wouldn’t hurt.

OK, wouldn’t hurt anybody but Nighthawks.

To me, her elegant dress doesn’t look risqué….

then again, it’s hard to determine the height of the neckline on a dog, without taking a closer look.

I think all three…. (er… or four? Five?)…. sets are covered up.

I’m sure our sedate Ms. Cleo wouldn’t wear it otherwise.

BTW…. I think I know who controls Rocko’s house…..

and it’s neither Marge nor Don, is it?

If we were suppose to find any differences, I found three. The freckles on her right cheek in panels 1 and 2. The freckles on her left cheek in panels 3 and 4 and both sides of freckles in panels 4 and 5. I’ll have to look to see if I can find anything else.

Good choice Cleo. Try to tuck that under your chin and you’d be poking your lips with the bow.

My Favorite Part™ was the fancy-schmancy g in Nighthawks.

P.S. There is a Rolling Stones song called “Little T&A” on their Tattoo You album. Could they have been predicting the size of the t and a in Nighthawks’s signature on today’s C&C?

I have to thank you Ms Cooper, not only for your untiring efforts to bring out into the open the injustice being done

to sherpa strips by GoComics but promotional efforts for Cleo and Company…….

The biggest disadvantage the Sherpa strips have for not being allowed on the main page is that to read any of them

you have to remember to take the time to jump through extra hoops to get there and see them, whereas if they were

on the ‘main page’ they would simply be included on the comics lineup once you opt to ‘follow’ them….

you know, like the way it used to be before their highly touted ‘improvements’ to the site 3 years ago.

Wow! Our Cleo is such an accomplished musician!

Has she ever tried the cymbals? That’d be right up her alley when she’s chasing Klaude.

No, who? You?

Floop is right.

“Oh, now suddenly he’s my dog.”