Overboard by Chip Dunham for July 06, 2009

Morning, Dry, docT & and all the rest! BEAT YOU ALL!!!!

Hi gmartin and everyone else. I think it’s good that the captain caught the rope. That would be a long drop off the table. Might be in the hospital for more than 4 minutes.

Good morning gang! Smile,gmartin, it’s Monday!

Chip you know I vote to keep the mice.

Lose the mice, and the giant rabbits…bring back the real Charlie Duffy, and Seahawk, and Boof, and the crow’s nest guys….and stay out of the strip, you never saw Watterson or Breathed doing that, or Jim Toomey now…

am i the only one who like the “toon exactly the way its drawn/written? Overboard is great!

pearlandpeach, No you’re not the only one! This is my favorite strip and I love it!! I do miss Seahawk and Duffy though.

Don’t like it? Start your own strip. Keep up the good work Chip.

The rats are so impatient! 10 minutes isn’t a life time!

Morning, all.

Dang … Dry and JFri beat me today (no big surprise, it’s 10:27 when I reach Overboard) but I beat DocToon … he must be enjoying hsi Vaca)

Anyway … I think it’s time for a cat to come aboard … as well maybe, as a wolf to eat the rabbits hehehehehehehe

Hi AllanVS said hi to you somewhere else, but I forget where! LOL!

For everybody who likes the mice storyline, check out Sunday’s (yesterday) Argyle Sweater. Very funny!

http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2009/07/05

Now add a wombat, some gerbils, and a parakeet and all will be complete.

Woo Hoo! The captain’s going for a ride!

Morning/Afternoon All! I like the mice too.

I love this strip… all the characters

I’m always the last one… when you live way out west plus I don’t get to the computer right away …

This is just about my favorite strip. I love the kindness, fun and compassion exhibited by the characters for each other. The mice are okay but not my favorites but Jim needs to do it the way he wants. I love Louie and Raymond and Nate. Does Jim have a website or a Facebook page? I would like to tell him myself how lovely I think the strip is.

Ups or downs, pros or cons, I do love it that we can have a good discourse without the rancor so prevelant in society these days! Bravo to us all, I say!

Brenzluv said:

….and stay out of the strip, you never saw Watterson or Breathed doing that, or Jim Toomey now…

Watterson never did it (except VERY obliquely), but the characters in Bloom County and Sherman’s Lagoon were/are periodically aware that they’re comic strip characters (as are the characters in Doonesbury, BC, Pogo Possum, and others). From there, it’s a short step to introducing the cartoonist himself (or herself) as a character.

Bil in “Family Circus” is a cartoonist, and it occasionally appears that the comic he does is the one in which he appears (witness Billy’s “fill-ins”). When “Garfield” began it was established that Jon was a cartoonist, although I don’t know that he draws a mediocre strip about an intolerable cat. Griffy in “Zippy” is somewhat synonymous with Bill Griffiths, and refers to himself in conversation with the other characters as their creator.

Stephan Pastis REGUARLY injects himself into “Pearls Before Swine”, often sitting at the drawingboard while Rat kibbitzes on the strip.

So what Chip is doing is not unknown across the whole spectrum of comic strips, in both the good and the bad. One distinction, though, is the guy who does the strip at “Overboard, Inc.” ACTUALLY Chip Dunham? I can only recall him being referred to as “the guy who does the strip.” I think that’s a nice touch.

(But I hate the rabbits.)