Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 31, 2009

That’s going to get uncomfortable real quick.

She may have to resign her membership…

(mutteringtohimselfyoudkoofusthatsnotfunnywhatastrange nannybotcensoricantevenwritetheactionofsewingsocks withoutbeingbleeped)

and she’s got the market cornered….

Given the new US obesity rate, it looks like all of America should join this movement!

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html#State

Shouldn’t she pull that lamp and chair a little closer?

What book is she reading?

HEEERs CLEO:

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

Gwen is a model for the limited square footage movement. But behind the scenes….

OMG, her closet! the racks of dresses and shoes! Plus she has a bookshelf in there!

This is a pretty simple “Push the Button”, Cleo. You are still on Earth, in the same era, and on the same street. So when it is dinnertime, I think you will get help for Claude. You are no Lassie, but you like to eat.

Gwen has the full support of the four walls in her room.

So, Claude, what’s the matter? You’re too rotund and out of shape to climb out of a simple trap?

I would lose the WHOOSH and keep the FLOOP.

I hope she doesn’t end up in spatial interface.

Lassie was a a male and you either can’t read or are a fool (or idiot).

Hi Cleo pals.

Late tonight.

Was this the first “Do not touch” strip?

It’s probably the simplest…

and the only one I can recall that’s not an animation.

Not that I can necessarily remember them all…. but I think I saved most of them.

Funny… I tend to think of them as saying “Do not push” but of the half dozen in my folder, all but one say "Do not touch. "

And, sorry, Liverlips…. I think we need the whoosh.

That’s the air rushing by during the descent.

The floop is the fall, and of course. the ka-THUD is the ka-THUD.

For once, I’ll say it first:

HI DRY!

Whoosh!

Floop!

Ka-Thud!

(rinse)

(repeat)

Nighthawks took a term from Rip Haywire…..

.

…or did Haywire rip off Nighthawks?

Liddle didja nose… Ol’ GwenDolyN izza SubsKriber to teh “Manimalist LifestyLe”.. redoosin her Karbun Foots Print in moderN SoCiety an teh Ballerd Environs… 0.o (yew din’t Think ol’ Munky wood nose abowt thinks lyke thet didja??) Ah bin a Round ya no….

I don’t know why Claude would expect Cleo to go get help. She certainly did not goad him into touching anything. Why, even when she looks back at the camera you can see how innocent she is.

Nighthawks…….you have created so many of my “all time favorites”! I wait with great anticipation to see what each day brings.

Will Claude ever learn? Stay tuned.

Keep trying Claude, one day something nice will happen》》》》》》》 or not !!!

Gwen’s hair is a contradiction!

HI BACK AT YA’, GIRL! ;-)

The whole “tiny house” movement is a cruel and expensive joke.