Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for October 31, 2019
October 30, 2019
November 01, 2019
Transcript:
the winners these comic strips received the most votes from our readers. they will be featured every day in the comics section of your newspaper. pre-classic peanuts violet: today no one remembers, but it was originally i, violet, who yanked the football away as charlie brown ran to kick it. yet somehow over the years lucy, the fuss-budget, the drama queen, usurped my place, leaving me a footnote, a cipher in a billion dollar franchise. boy: what a neurotic embittered little girl. violet: i should have been a star! doltish duck duck: hey - do goats really eat tin cans? goat: no. duck: hey - do chickens really stare at the sky during a rainstorm with their beaks open until they drown? chicken: no. goat: what a dolt. oop: hey - are rhino horns really an aphrodisiac- ow that hurt fanky malloon the clown genius fanky: now i take the balloons and - skwik skwik fanky: voila! i call it "pieta"! kids: ooh! now do "the disasters of war" fanky: sure!
J Quest about 5 years ago
Balloon Fine Art. Goya wishes he had thought of it first.
Teto85 Premium Member about 5 years ago
That’s ok, Violet. You are making Jeannie richer everyday.
WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago
What a mind – Thompson is gone much too soon.
chromosome Premium Member about 5 years ago
He’s right about Violet: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/f/fa/19511114.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/500?cb=20130305025232
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
Violet did it first, just like the all but forgotten first wife of Adam. Lilith.
Sisyphos about 5 years ago
I’d pass on the whole lot of these “winners” for one more Cul de Sac from Richard….
gbars70 about 5 years ago
Methinks Doltish Duck is foolishly experimenting in some carnal adventure.