John Hambrock is a fellow cartoonist who creates The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. I checked in on John’s site this morning, and he was doing some bragging in his blog. His fine comic strip launched in November of 2006, which led John to calculate that he has drawn over 3,000 daily and Sunday strips that, if laid end to end, would equal the height of three Sears Towers stacked on top of one another (about 4,500 ft.). Well, John’s calculations led me to some of my own. I have drawn over 10,700 A&J strips since 1985, not accounting for leap years, which if laid end to end would extend for 2.5 miles and closely resemble my office floor. Hey, Junior! Come back in a few years, and we’ll talk some more! I must say, I do admire the way he has copies of all his strips arranged in ring binders. And if you read John’s bio, you’ll learn he spent years developing his characters before Brilliant Mind was launched by King Features Syndicate. As evidenced by the above cartoon from the first month of A&J, it wouldn’t have hurt if I’d done a little of that.
434 responses to “A Long Long Time Ago”
Unless you were wearing panty hose, in which case do you rip them in half or use the wine opener to divide them into two parts? We have discussed the failure of women to continue to wear hose? Knee highs are hardly erotic!
A wine opener would probably be available, as no beverages with screw caps consumed and I am sure we wouldn’t go anywhere without one. In your case, Ghost, you’d have at least two cutting implements available and a Swiss Army knife to utilize as a backup.
Mike always said he had to build all his boats and homes with a dull Boy Scout knife, so he’d probably say the same thing about being prepared.
Poor Jimmy, look what comes of a few cartoons with black hose, bras and handcuffs?
Ghost, you make me laugh which is good.
Love, Jackie
I aim to please, ma’am. 🙂
And yes, more than two knives. And no, knee highs would not be either that useful or erotic.
Today’s new daily——- Janis looks like the female character on 9 CL, not Martine but the blonde daughter who plays the cello and piano and is a ballerina. When she is doing her “rage face” look with really scary face.
Good night all. We have probably scared off the remainder of the Village that the troll didn’t run off. At least any with puritanical tendencies but if they do, they are probably at the wrong comic strip anyway because I do know what the Arlo Award is based on and it isn’t undeserved.
And often hard to win.
Love you, JJ-
Jackie
I get Allegra and Viagra mixed up, so if I start sneezing, look out! We went to see Midtown Men tonight. They are the original Broadway cast of The Jersey Boys. They were great.
Today’s strip (well, I guess at this point in time, I should say yesterday’s) with Ludwig having troubles getting up on the bed … this isn’t a prelude to Luddy’s dying because he’s old?! I hope not!!!!!! Luddy is one of my favorite cats (my own cat, Pumpkin, comes first, of course) and if you kill him, I will be so upset, I won’t read your strip anymore! I have been a fan since it first appeared in the Tampa Tribune many years ago and I was one of the first to order your book — please don’t break my heart by killing off Luddy!
Good morning Villagers….
Jerry, do you carry a towel? Sneezing can be hazardous 🙂
GR 😉 Ann can still hit those high notes….scrolled down and read some of the comments…man, people can be so rude. Idiots.
Doumcan. (I think I spelled it right without looking back) I work in one of those backyard hen houses…it’s about 25 years old. Packing room could use work as it is rather drafty in the winter. We have to turn the heat way down when we leave….the night it was zero, I went in that morning to find ice in the toilet bowl…now that’s cold.
Merle…I briefly thought the same thing….I don’t believe Jimmy is going to go that way…Luddie is a very important part of A&J/
Ya’ll have a blessed day
And can anyone explain today’s real time strip….I don’t get it.
Debbe, it’s not Janis having the bad dream. So, the bad dream switcheroo, got it?
Arlo is dreaming that he has been waked by Janis’s whimpering, so he dreams that he wakes her, and she turns into a vampire. Neat. I’ve had lots of weird and sometimes convoluted dreams, but never that kind of switch [that I can remember]. Most of the times I wake up, I’ve been dreaming, but also have forgotten all or most of it but the time I’m fully awake. Once in a long while, I remember the details, and have gotten two newspaper columns from that.
Freud claimed that the dream you really had is not the dream you remember. I’ve read a little of Freud’s original writing [ages ago, for an Honors class where I was the natural scientist of a 3-man (it happens) teaching team], but also heard lots about him from the psych and lit profs on the team. F. was an MD, but not really a scientist, IMO. Also, an expert manipulator, as demo. by his take on dreams. Has this colored my take on shrinks? Yes.
“by the time”!
emb, Janis looks more snake-like than like a vampire. The slit pupils and tongue with fangs seem more characteristic of a snake, don’t you think?
1985? When is the 30th anniversary of your first strip being published?
emb, I cannot resist noting that Freud’s interpretation of Pharaoh’s cupbearer’s dream in Genesis 40 would likely have been markedly different from Joseph’s interpretation… 😉
I step out onto the Village Square this morning only to learn I want to bed too early last night. Then I see the daily offering. Now wondering if I’ve awaken in the deep, dark woods on Dante’s Inferno.
On s/b of
This is a new one for me, Merimaid conventions. GR6 might want to schedule attending next one…http://boingboing.net/2015/01/23/mermaid-convention-photographs.html
“Naughty shoplifter”? Don’t know about that, but there is a petition going around among my daughter’s friends for their dance teacher (the belly dancer) to start a burlesque troupe named The Ilumin-Naughties.
Some years ago when my sisters Pugs got too old to jump up on the bed she went to PetSmart and bought a stair for them, much like this one: http://www.petsmart.com/dog/ramps-steps/pet-gear-easy-step-iii-pet-stairs-zid36-7414/cat-36-catid-100020?var_id=36-7414&_t=pfm%3Dcategory
eMb, these days I don’t remember much of my dreams either, which makes me rather sad. I used to have some pretty interesting dreams, the best of which had freeze-frame shots and Russian end-credits. I never have figured out that as I don’t speak Russian.
Janis was a more attractive mermaid. Then, there was “Splash.” Actress, or her double, walking toward the S. of L. somehow is etched on my mind. As Arlo told Janis, it’s the default setting, undiminished, so there.
OF site: foggy, mostly from geyser steam in the whole basin. Last prediction is for last evening. Peace, emb
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Ah, but you see, that’s the dream Joseph thought he had, so that’s what the scribe wrote down. He really dreamed about lox, cream cheese, and raw onion on a bagel. If we’d known that, there would now be peace in the Middle East.
Peace, emb
P.S. Haven’t had one of those since I went low fat in ’07. Sob.
MerFest? Meh. IMO, real mermaids do not wear bikini tops, or indeed any other type of tops. A detail Jimmy got entirely right in his Simple Fisherman series. Remember that MerJanis didn’t have a clue about the proper use of a brassiere when Simp Fish gave her one.
I did discover Hannah Fraser, who bills herself as a “Professional Mermaid”, among other things, and who gets it almost right.
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Jean dear, good luck to your daughter’s friends in their quest to form a burlesque troupe. I’m all about supporting the arts. 🙂
GR6. One of the better proportioned posts I’ve seen. But, what’s with the epaulets? emb
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I had lots of dreams before developing sleep apnea, and now that it’s being treated, my dreams are back. During the untreated phase, I rarely dreamed and I missed them!
Sleep apnea prevents the mind entering certain stages that promote dreams but I am sure you know that. I saw Arlo’s dream last night and thought Janis looked like a snake, which would fit in with my snake nightmares and dreams of bed being in water with really scary things in the deep.
I am avoiding driving about 90-100 miles to hospital for lab work for my diabetes doctors and I know I am doing so and need to go. Blood sugars running too low and I have appointments where they need the labs.
Last night I ate a huge baked potato late at night and was really regretting eating it after reading some of Ghost;s comments and now Loon’s photos of topless women. Figured it would give me enough complex carbs to get me thru night, got up to low sugars again just now.
I think the epaulets are supposed to be barnacles but I suspect they are there for use in some form of support for her equipment in act. Equipment other than her body, I mean. I had read about her, she supports herself as a mermaid entertainer and does personal appearances for events, etc.
Love, Jackie
Step away for awhile and I am no longer abreast of the topic du jour. I see Loon has expressed her pointed views on the daily fare. Never knew about Hannah Mermaid, posting this YouTube link for everyone. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbJ_BOokQo