Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for January 19, 2014

The last episode of my fun sf short story Kiss Them Deadly starts tomorrow. You can still control the flow of the story by voting today.

My new app The Bionic Bikini is now available in the kindle store and interactive free book. Help Zach and HARV track down the bionic bikini.

BTW, giving credit where credit is due today’s toon is all Scott.

I can’t wait to get to the Fusco Brothers/J.C. Duffy version. And then in the style of Matt Groening in the Life in Hell days. Both are worthy challenges.

Like the strip. Tired of the history. “History of Working Daze – Part 2 many”

I’ve been enjoying the history, myself. It’s been interesting to watch the strip evolve. As of today’s sample, it’s starting to look more familiar, and like the Working Daze I know. As I’ve said before, I had no idea this strip was so old.

The artistic style here looks like Zits. I wonder if there might have been some cross-influence.

Love history. Seeing how a strip has evolved since its beginning has been really interesting.

In this version, Mrs. Jensen reminds me of my paternal grandmother. Grandma didn’t smile much (didn’t like her dentures), but she laughed a lot. She was a hoot, and we miss her. Dry, deadpan sense of humor that she passed on to my dad.

Great drawing of Sue!! If it’s her that is? Great lipgloss on Sue and Rita. I love it!!

Are you guys going to put this routine out in book form?

Bear seems to have calmed down a little. Must have been Molly’s influence. Jay and the other woman look like they might be relations with the people in Zits.

Sue and Mrs. Jenson – two of my three favorite characters are up today (CJ being the other)! Sue is always distinctive by her earrings, though they usually are green (although Rita has obvious earrings in today’s color panel as well). I was always intrigued by “Zits”, never sure whether I liked it or not. Rita (or at least her distinctive hair style) is looking more like she had it in the Zakour/Miller days, when I vaguely remember first running across the strip in some newspaper that I didn’t regularly read.

This series has been absolutely brilliant, something to look forward to every Sunday. Seeing all the different styles and homages from Scott has been awesome. I’m going to be sorry to see it end, but I am curious to see the Noel version, Miller is the earliest I’ve seen to now.

the right panel looks like it was drawn by the guy who does Zits!

I knew it! “Zit’s” is spoofed in this week’s “Working Daze.” I believe Jerry Scott and Mike Thompson ‘s work. I love this, and yet I don’t know who you will do next!