Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 13, 2006
Transcript:
"What are you reading?" "It's a letter from the National Cartoonists Society...Looks like they're changing some of the rules for the comics." "What'd they change?" "Well, it says here that right now, the only two comic strips that are actually having their characters age are 'Baby Blues' and 'For Better or For Worse'." "So?" "Well, according to them, it's not fair that certain characters have to age while others get to remain frozen in time." "So what are they gonna do?" "According to this, 'It shall be the responsibility of all current syndicated cartoonists to advance their characters to the age they would presently be, based upon the start date of the comic.'" "Well, that shouldn't be too bad for a strip like ours...We're only four years old." "Yeah, rub it in, you big, fat @#$%^&* pig." "What's it take for Jeffy to get a @#$% martini around here?!" "Call the bouncer." "Again?"
m.l. over 12 years ago
The Homa about 11 years ago
Wouldn’t Doonesbury count? People die in that.
KZ71 over 10 years ago
Luann ages… VERY slowly, but she does.
gocomics over 10 years ago
Charlie Brown aged from 4 to 8 during the 50-year life of Peanuts.
MemphisBelle over 5 years ago
Dolly and Jeffy haven’t aged well.
Darth Revan II about 4 years ago
Oh man… Charlie Brown would be seventy-four.
R2-Wolf about 4 years ago
Blondie and Dagwood are around 120. Strip started in 1930.
me_the_polish_gull over 3 years ago
Characters in 9 Chickweed Lane also age. Regularly.
robert423elliott over 2 years ago
Barney Google began in 1919 so, if he was 25 when it started, that would make him 127 now. Snuffy came along in 1934, but they were about the same age when they began together. So, 127 all around…….Barney, Snuffy, Weezy and most of Hootin’ Holler! Jughaid would only be around 98. The only one that is sort of young is Tater. I don’t know exactly when he came along, but I’m guessing 10-20 years ago!!!
comicfancat1 over 2 years ago
look for garfield