Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for November 30, 2024

Whoa! Mom Thorp is laying the smack down!

Talk to me like what?

Finely drawn house in P1. People that look like aliens in P2 and 3. Does the artist have prosopagnosia, or face blindness?

TBF, if I had his two kids and their mom switched teams in the middle of the marriage I’d be a drunk too. Now, he left with an insecure bartender who has settled for a drunken Gil. Sad times in Milford. Next Marty Moon will reach out to Gil to take him to a 12 step meeting. One hand reaching out to help another.

Mom found a spot to place the wedge end of the crowbar.

“You look like a hippie.” -——“And you look like a Picasso!”

Cue the “Rocky” theme.

Such precision, attention to detail — dare I say artistry? — in the rendering of the house exterior. But crappy rapid sketch work for the humans. What is up with Ms. Merrill and her drawing? It is a disservice to the great Gil Thorp and all who revere him.

wonder if gils brother is getting some action with beth

i look like a hippie mammy your hair looks like a dead towel

Nobody told me there’d be days like these

Nobody told me there’d be days like these

Nobody told me there’d be days like these

Strange days indeed

Most peculiar, mama

Beth is not built to last. One day soon she will hit the bricks and The Gilfather will be back better than ever. That’s my hallucination, err dream.

his mother looks like a guy in drag

Looks like for some reason they started decorating for Christmas and starting stringing the lights around mom. And speaking of stringing, no sense stringing you along, here’s today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

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P-1: All right, now we know which side of the house they’re in. I was confused.

P-2.5 And you look like a Linebacker, Mom.

P-3.5: Yep

Yeah, a Rocky IV workout and cleanup is about to start “DRAGO!!!”

What car commercial is she talking about? Does it feature a drunk? Is she comparing a drunk in the commercial to Gil? So many unimportant questions.

Mom: “…. Will you just grow a pair?….no wonder Emily left you!…and no wonder Keri is seeking male attention from all the wrong places!…and don’t get me started on your dim witted son!… he’s gonna be seeking the wrong kind of male attention too if you don’t man up!…”

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P4 “You’re right mom. I’m gonna go over to his house and punch him in the stomach right now.”

Mom looks like she is ready for the “Dress like your favorite Pharaoh” contest.

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And Gil’s on his third shirt of Thanksgiving. He started with a red shirt with black stripe, changed into an all red shirt to do dishes and now he’s in a red shirt with some sort of white design on the front.

Each character looks different in each panel. This is an extended joke right? They’re just letting random people draw the strip each day.

Who is the Egyptian priest in panel 3?

That’s it I’m out.

P1: Ma Thorp is old enough to remember what hippies looked like. Gil isn’t even close. Maybe for a redneck sheriff’s interpretation of “hippie.”

P2 & 3: I wrote and drew comic strips for my college newspaper. The thing is, I’m not very good at drawing. More accurately, I can draw fairly well, but I can’t do it again. Making recurring characters look the same, over and over…as Clint Eastwood said, a man’s got to know his limitations.

So, I made it an anthology with no recurring characters, like the Far Side, so that readers wouldn’t notice. Not sure why this occurred to me.