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

Est. 1985

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An Offer He Can’t Refuse

By Jimmy Johnson

It’s Friday and time for a commercial message. If you follow the link below to today’s Arlo & Janis comic strip at GoComics, you’ll see a blue bar at the upper left that says “Follow.” If you already follow this strip, the bar will say “Unfollow.” If that is the case, Don’t touch it! If you aren’t “following” Arlo & Janis, I hope you will consider it. There is one slight catch: you have to sign up for a GoComics account. It doesn’t cost anything, and all you will be asked to do is provide an email address and create a password. (You will be asked if you’re 13 years old or older, but they don’t really have any way to check that.) Besides my gratitude, there are benefits to a GoComics account, whether you have a free account or a paid premium account. You can follow any number of comics besides A&J, and they’ll be collected and waiting for you every day. Plus, you will be able to make all kinds of helpful suggestions to your favorite cartoonists in the “comments” section. I don’t like to ask this sort of thing of you very often, but Arlo & Janis is coming up on 70,000 followers. I guess I’m getting impatient. (In case you’re interested, you can click on the “About” tab above any GoComics feature, and it will show you the number of readers following that feature.)

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25 responses to “An Offer He Can’t Refuse”

  1. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    As I recall, one must have a gocomics account to “like” a daily cartoon. For “rating” purposes, I suppose. I know we all *like* Jimmy’s work, or we wouldn’t be here, would we?

    1. Jimmy Johnson Avatar

      Yes, that is true. I didn’t want to seem pushy.

  2. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Re 12-6-19 real-time cartoon : I don’t understand why Arlo is having such an issue with making waffles. Even I can whip them up, from scratch, with minimal fuss in a minimal amount of time. Of course, I don’t recall ever making them in the middle of the night, so…

  3. Susan in NC Avatar
    Susan in NC

    I’ve always enjoyed getting the daily dose of my favorite comics from GoComics in my email. It’s the first thing I read every morning and A&J is at the top of the list. (I’m actually a paying member so I can look at old comics). But free membership is good too! Nothing bad comes from it and it helps Jimmy!

  4. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Well, that was interesting! I checked the 14 comics I follow on GoComics to see how much company I have. Only Argyle Sweater has more followers than A&J, Stone Soup is just a hundred or so behind, and most of the others are in the 10-15,000 range; a couple are under 2000. Thanks for the tip!

  5. Richard Avatar
    Richard

    I understand you would like to have lots of people follow you on the GoComics site, and everybody should. However, there are also people still waiting for you to come through on your Kickstarter. It’s been three years, is it really that hard to talk to those loyal fans and tell them what’s going on? Let alone finish what you started? I love your work, but I am extremely disappointed in how you deal(t) with this. So not really feeling any motivation to sell out my personal info to the GoComics site.

  6. DaveP Avatar
    DaveP

    In reference to leaving “suggestions” for the artist …. I’ve been informed that some don’t ever read the posts there, and one (whom I no longer read) even has comments disabled.

    At least here we have a sense of community and feel you don’t take us for granted. Thanks Jimmy! 🙂

  7. Blinky the Wonder Wombat Avatar
    Blinky the Wonder Wombat

    Thanks for the tip. I’ve subscribed to the premium service for years and just assumed that adding A&J to the subscription automatically tallied me as a follower. I have now corrected this wrong assumption.

  8. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    I double checked, and I am following this strip. Thanks for the reminder, Jimmy.

  9. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    In addition to being a follower, I am a premium member.

    I became one after Jimmy stated that premium memberships help the cartoonists financially.

  10. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    The Nothin’ Haiku
    even when I have
    nothing to say I like to
    make it elegant

  11. John in Houston Avatar
    John in Houston

    I was curious. I have 12 in my subscription. In my top four – A&J, Agnes, Monty and Drabble, Drabble is closest with over 61,000. I’m going to periodically check to watch you hit 70,000

    1. Old Bear Avatar
      Old Bear

      Will see what I can do.

    2. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

      Autocorrect changed it from Debbe

  12. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    I wonder if there are any good football games on today? 😀
    Actually, we probably won’t do much business at the boutique today until the OU-Baylor game (now at halftime) is over.

  13. CliosFanBoy Avatar
    CliosFanBoy

    humm, as an old married guy I the conversation in today’s flashback went like this..

    “No thank you”
    “OK, I guess I’ll have to eat both halves then.”

    🙂

  14. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Re 12-9-19 real-time cartoon: I thought for a moment that Arlo had gotten into Janis’s fruitcake.

  15. emb Avatar
    emb

    Sev adult bald eagles on ground nr Decorah North nest cam. Beats me.

    https://explore.org/livecams/birds/decorah-eagles-north-nest

    Peace,

  16. emb Avatar
    emb

    Seem to be feeding by a stream that’s nr the nest tree. Carcass? Dead fish. Little if any conflict.

  17. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Speaking of commercials, as we were last week, I didn’t mean to imply that none of them are entertaining. For example, I’ve always liked this one. (Perhaps it has something to do with my inner 12-year old.)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=1HIt82xDScI

    1. Bob in Orland Park Avatar
      Bob in Orland Park

      Forgot about that one. Ahhhh….to be the 12 year old kid.

    2. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
      curmudgeonly ex-professor

      Ah! I knew which one it was before watching! {However, I retained nothing of what was being advertised.]

  18. emb Avatar
    emb

    Am probably out of one loop or another: I don’t get today’s [10 Dec] A&J. What bow?
    According to Anu Garg’s AWAD, today is Emily Dickinson’s b’day; his selected quote is neat. Dickinson is one of Elaine’s favorites. Maybe they’ve met.
    Peace,