Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 21, 2012
March 20, 2012
March 22, 2012
Transcript:
In the spring, a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove. In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Arlo: Don't look at me that way! Arlo: Old men have those thoughts year-'round!
peter almost 13 years ago
@affi: My guess is you haven’t been old yet. You’d be amazed… ;-)
wcorvi almost 13 years ago
Most cartoon characters have attained eternal youth. Charlie Brown was in 3rd grade for 50 years. But Arlo has not seemed to do that.
axe-grinder almost 13 years ago
Yeahhh, baby! Yeahhhhh!
rusty gate almost 13 years ago
Janis has still got it, and Arlo still wants it! Nice comic.
josietn almost 13 years ago
I think you must have inspired today’s “episode”.. :)
riverhawk almost 13 years ago
I cant figure….hw old are Janis and arlo? And what did arlo do forva living?
DDrazen almost 13 years ago
“In the Spring a young man’s fancy … but a young woman’s fancier.” Unknown
marsham1950 almost 13 years ago
How about an update on Gene and company?
hippogriff almost 13 years ago
Roses are red,Violets are blue.A young man’s fancy,And so dear are you. Walt Kelly
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 13 years ago
i think thats lust, Arlo…
MelvinLott almost 13 years ago
@ Jimmy Johnson… S’truth. My dad was dying of cancer, took him to hospital on Friday. He was gone on Saturday, but Friday at the hospital, he looked at one of the nurses and said, “Did you see the rack on her?” So, yeah, we do kinda think about that all of the time.
MeGoNow Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Riverhawk asks how old they are and where Arlo works. Like Jim in Father Knows Best, Arlo works at the mysterious unnamed company where most TV and comic married men work. Some sort of office work. Not big time execs. Not clerks.
Arlo and Janis were born in the early to mid 1950’s and were in college in 1973 when they met. While their names derive from the obvious 60’s music references, they were born too soon to have been named for Guthrie and Joplin. They appear, then, to live in a universe where time passes only very slightly slower than in ours, which in comic strip land is extraordinarily realism.
Varnes almost 13 years ago
Gene was named after Gene McCarthy…
renewed1 almost 13 years ago
After 30+ years, she still looks great.
Jerome Norlander almost 13 years ago
There was once a contest, put on by Jimmy Johnson I guess, with an underwhelming prize — a T shirt or something — for who ever could come closest to Arlo’s age. Since I have always thought of Arlo as my alter-ego, I entered but did not win. Unfortunately, I don’t remember how old he was at the time nor do I remember how long ago it was … may have been ten years ago.