A pithy comic strip about life, love, lust and puthy cats.

Est. 1985

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Hardly Harvey, cont.

By Jimmy Johnson


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With this rare Friday post, we’re already a quarter of the way through the “Harvey” sequence, and, if I may say so, the best is yet to come. I’ve been playing around with some tee shirt designs that I hope will be out “just in time for Christmas.” I’ve been saying I was going to do that for 25 years. Maybe finally. I’ve been wracking my brain about what you’d like. Then it occurred to me: I’ll just ask. That is the way we do things around here. Any suggestions? (Sorry, no guarantees!) There’ll be a lot more said about this in the near future.

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249 responses to “Hardly Harvey, cont.”

  1. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    A moderated link, Lily? Dang, it must be a good one. 😉

    Denise: Excellent! The “reading tee shirts” one would be an exception to my coffee-mugs-for-strips suggestion.

  2. Lilyblack Avatar

    Ghost: weirdest thing, it was an A&J from the archive

  3. Llee Avatar

    Folks, Jimmy’s hand would cramp up and he wouldn’t be able to draw cartoons! That would be AWFUL. How about a signature worked into the print instead? And then we could buy several of whatever design he comes up with. 🙂

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Date of archive?

  5. Lilyblack Avatar

    October 17, 1994. I would hate to see what the, um, unenlightened readers on The Dark Side would say

  6. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    That’s just 2 min. from now.

  7. Evan Avatar
    Evan

    April 28, 1996 cartoon would be my choice. I would settle for just the final panel:

    “There’s just something about a peek…”

  8. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    First small jets at 1617, immediate expansion to full classic display, winding down by 1619; all in a bright, sunny day. Neat.

  9. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Janis’s bulky sweaters and Lily’s Love Tees have something in common, eh? Ghost approves.

    http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/10/27

  10. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    OF DUE to erupt at 1801 CDT ± 10 minutes.

    http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html

    You might not be welcome in church in summer with the above ’94 strip on your tee. [You can wear tees in our church in summer.]

  11. Village Loon Avatar
    Village Loon

    October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, check-out a pair.

  12. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    A humorous comment on a series subject…

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WlL_mHQfFxI/SjxC6j9ROgI/AAAAAAAAAX0/4XXYIVSaXzk/s320/secondbase.jpg

    Get your mammograms done, ladies. I know they are not fun, but neither are prostate exams, and both are necessary.

  13. Village Loon Avatar
    Village Loon

    Wonder if insurance would offer a couples BOGO; buy a mamogram and get a free prostate exam. Sort of a squeeze and finger deal. hehehe

  14. Lilyblack Avatar

    I get a mammogram done every year for free as part of a program at our hospital. Another time to be glad you are small

  15. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    That wouldn’t help with a prostate exam.

  16. Lilyblack Avatar

    I don’t have a prostate. 😛 The Man In My Life has only had one prostate exam, he just gets a prostatic acid phosphatase drawn every year for his physical

  17. Mindy from Indy Avatar
    Mindy from Indy

    My $.02 – The car logo would be cool, but I also think a JJ exclusive would be awesome. Only available on items from the gift shop. Imagine: Arlo, Janis, Gene, Mary Lou, Meg, Gus, and Ludwig on the schooner. (I can just see Luddie poised to make a comically tragic miscalculated jump at a passing gull.)

    I would also love this strip on a mug
    https://fbcdn-photos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-0/10353544_10154748708825454_8596510389983538048_n.jpg?oh=be0425fb530ba1ba8842a1d29cb7f362&oe=54CE48AC&__gda__=1422889465_adf9130a6b8982d12ec6b7bd3f6b42d1

  18. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Heavier snow and > 20 mph wind = RAW. Yesterday a friend told me fall = her favorite season. I believe it ended today. There w/b snow on the ground Sat., but mostly sun and a high of 44F, so it will likely all melt.

    How do I get to see A&J 28 Apr. ’96 cartoon to find out about Evan’s suggestion, above?

  19. Lilyblack Avatar

    Aw, we just got our second cold front of the year, and a few leaves are turning yellow. The Boy In My Life had to rake some windblown leaves down this afternoon – in short sleeves!

  20. Mindy from Indy Avatar
    Mindy from Indy

    Phooey! eMb – go to url bar and erase everything up to .com/ then add apeek.htm

    I tried to post the link. Moderation land. Or just Google Arlington and Janis something about a peek.

  21. Mindy from Indy Avatar
    Mindy from Indy

    Arlo! Stupid autocorrect!

  22. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie, I confess I did watch a few minutes of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox the other night, because I heard that your old classmate (wasn’t it?) James “Snake Head” Carville was going to be on. I find watching the way the spittle-spraying increases as he gets more vociferous to be one of the more entertaining things I’ve seen on TV recently.

    Surprisingly, he and O’Reilly actually agreed on a couple of things. He mentioned he is now 72, so perhaps he has mellowed a bit.

  23. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Apparently, Janis has more tolerance for some peeks than others.

    http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2000/05/15

  24. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Mindy/Indy: Thank you. emb