Here it is, the last day of 2018! I’m having a good overall run, myself, so I’m always leery of saying anything that can be construed as complaining. However, 2018 was not the best of years for me personally, but it’s getting so much better all the time, and the year’s not even out yet. I’m looking forward to 2019. I enjoy the challenge of keeping a 33-year-old comic strip as relevant and entertaining as I can. It isn’t easy, but I take pride in where we are. My resolution is to be a better cartoonist, for you. Thank you for reading Arlo & Janis.
46 responses to “Days of Auld Lang Syne”
You’re welcome. It has been 33 years of joy, entertainment, and good laughs. Wish you another great 33 years.
Hey Sand! Does Ghost know you are here? Hang around. We have missed you so much!
33 years, wow! It’s still the one comic we look forward to reading every day!
Happy New Year!
Thanks for your hard work and great strip Jimmy.
Looking forward to the next year’s strips!
Be safe, warm, and loved.
Thank you for giving us something worth reading, Jimmy.
That might not seem particularly remarkable, but these days it is.
I’ll join and echo Ghost. You and Monty are only thing I read and I often have to read him in a marathon.
Thanks for being here.
I’m not going to last another 33 years – but I hope you do!
Happy New Year – and best wishes for good health to all
I haven’t been following A & J for 33 years but the last few have been quite enjoyable even with you peeking in the window.
Thanks for the last 33 and here’s to another 33+!!
Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2019!!!
A&J is the posting I make on FB that ALWAYS gets laughs. Typically prefaced with: My life, part 452. Happy New Year and thanks for writing my daily diary.
Perspective, courtesy of Mother Gargle. Actually, I’ve seen him only once, and it was not the time he flubbed the beat because of the extra second that New Year’s Eve.
https://www.gocomics.com/the-born-loser/2018/12/31
Peace, have a blessed 2019, and a designated driver.
JJ: “better cartoonist”. Not sure that’s possible, Here. Maybe There, but there w/b competition. Mauldin, for instance, and Kelly. Maybe there’s no competition There. We’ll see, I think. That’s as theological as I dare get, here.
Peace,
A hometown guy who shares glimpses of us all.
Thank you, Jimmy. Happy New Year.
“May you stay forever young”
Not only thank you for your creativity over the past 33 years but your energy in keeping the ol website alive. I like to think that having us around keeps you “in the loop” Doing your strip takes a lot of solitude, but you have to interrelate with people in order to create the strip. I remember a few years ago when you had stories take place around the office, but since you have not been in an office for a while, it got harder to write. But even without that element A&J is still peaking into our windows. Still crazy, after all of these years!
May 2019 be your best year ever.
And, now, speaking selfishly, don’t ever hang up the cartoonist’s nibs.
Symply great 33 years of fun, Gayle can Symply read them on her Boston Globe now too, me I still catch them on the Fargone net…have a Happy Safe and Healthy New Year to all the village denizens!
Thank you for your hard work keeping us entertained and informed. Your strip does not get dated. Yes, some of the background things are influenced by the time you drew and wrote them, but the basics of the strip don’t age. The goofiness of Arlo, the counterbalance provided by the down-to-earth Janis, and their joyous relationship. Your art might get better technically, as might your tech skills in the blog, but how do you improve on the excellent quality the strip already has?
I had a couple of uncles who didn’t have to get drunk. Nice guys otherwise.
Whoops.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
“The goofiness of Arlo, the counterbalance provided by the down-to-earth Janis.” Close. Arlo has it almost as good as I did.
Peace,
I have noticed, for some time now, the well-known phenomenon of acceleration of the temporal succession with age. That is, time passes increasingly rapidly as I get older. The weeks slip by, and, with them, the months. Years still seem fairly slow-moving, though I find it difficult to realize that I retired more than 16 years ago!
I see this in trivial weekly things like taking out the garbage: “Is it garbage night again, already?” or “Oh, yeah, that meeting is tonight, isn’t it?”
Your slopes indicate this very observation, JJ, and I can only imagine how steep a slope we currently have.
I don’t have too much longer before I reach the edge of the abyss.
Congrats Jimmy! I’m not sure if I have followed you the whole 33 years, but pretty darn close. Even on my roughest days, you help me at least get my morning off on the right foot. Thank you! Peace, and happy new year!
We’ve had some pleasant rambles,
And merry Christmas gambols,
And roses with our brambles,
Adieu, old year, adieu!
– George Lunt,1801–85 (from yesterday’s Old Farmers Almanac email)
I started following Arlo & Janis because Arlo reminded me of my beloved brother-in-law. I am not sure how I found the Blog! But I am so thankful I did. I have come to know you, JJ, and the many wonderful contributors. I have never met any of you in person, but we meet almost every day here. Thank you – all of you – for broadening my world and providing many smiles – and also some loud chortles! We all different, but very much the same.
Love you all – and I hope you have a HAPPY AND BLESSED NEW YEAR!
Why, thank you, Galliglo! While I don’t know you except through this medium, you’re probably a genuine “keeper”! Be blessed in the forthcoming year.
Thank you, c-X-p! Your comments are always a delight.
We are friends that have not met yet.
(Some have) (and gone beyond friends)
Keep up the good work JJ – as long as there is human nature
and you can look in windows you will not run out of material.
Happy New Year
Bedtime. Bonne Année. And 5 Jan, the sunrises will start getting earlier. Peace,
Happy New Year, all. I have another 9 hour work day tomorrow, so the only thing i’m going to watch drop is my eyelids. Good night and have a safe New Year’s.