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

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Ever the Gentleman

By Jimmy Johnson


Buy the new book, "Beaucoup Arlo & Janis!"Today's "Arlo & Janis!"

Since I didn’t post on Sunday, I’m showing you this old A&J classic from Valentine’s Day, 2007. While we’re at it, I might as well wish you a Happy George Washington’s Birthday, aka Presidents Day. Where I come from, George Washington’s Birthday always meant “white sales,” when the woman of the house (Naturally!) could get good deals on sheets and towels. Why this was the case, I have no idea. But let’s talk about cartoons.

As some of you are aware, there are a lot of comics on the gocomics.com Web site, where you find today’s Arlo & Janis online. Many of these comics are Web-exclusive; they do not appear in newspapers. The consensus is, these efforts are a transitional frontier, their creators trail-blazers for aspiring cartoonists of the future. To be honest, my knowledge of this frontier hardly is exhaustive and probably not better than that of many of you reading this. However, I did want to mention three that I like. I think they’re charming. When you have a chance, check out “The Sunshine State” by Graham Nolan, “Connie to the Wonnie” by Connie Sun, and last but not least “Wallace the Brave” by Will Henry. Let me know what you think. Do you have any favorites?

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123 responses to “Ever the Gentleman”

  1. Jim in TN Avatar
    Jim in TN

    I have enjoyed “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria” for a number of years. Written by Pab Sungenis.

  2. Mindy from Indy Avatar

    For better or for worse, grandma comes off the ventilator tomorrow. Her doctor is worried if we wait too much longer, she will become too dependant on it. (Tomorrow will be a week.) Her odds are 50/50.

    All I ask of the universe is a fair fight.

  3. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Mindy dear: you must know this Village will be sending all manner of prayers, good wishes, positive energy, crossed fingers and whatever else they believe in for your sweet grandma and you.

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    What RA said, Lady Mindy…all of the above.

    I learned way more than I care to know about ventilators when my sister was ill, but her doc’s concern is valid.

  5. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Mindy
    Hugs & Prayers

  6. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 You speaking of visiting Evansville reminded me of a few years ago when I had reason to spend several days in the downtown area of a medium-sized city in which I had lived for three years (albeit three fairly important years to me…my last three years of high school). I spent quite a few hours walking the area while on breaks, reliving many moments of my time there. It was quite a mix…some blocks of architecturally significant buildings had been either preserved or carefully restored; some blocks of empty storefronts looked like the set of a dystopian movie (I kept expecting to see Snake Plisskin any moment, so I could tell him, “I heard you were dead.”); and some blocks looked like Dresden after WWII.

    All in all, not the place I remembered. “You can’t go home again.”

  7.  Avatar

    Mindy, much love. Like Ghost, I know too much and I mean about ventilators. Yes, we hope she fights but darling, let her go if she is losing. I love you and worry about you, you are a good person.

  8. Gary Avatar
    Gary

    Hmm, weather has warmed up from a week of fairly cold stuff. Unfortunately it just dropped 20 inches of snow today with more on the way tomorrow.

  9. Gary Avatar
    Gary

    Mindy, I wish the best for you and your mother.

  10. Jerry in Florida Avatar
    Jerry in Florida

    I didn’t watch the Grammys and didn’t miss it. Pop music left me when the Sex Pistols appeared. I can get roughly 20 different music channels on my tv and maybe 5 are worth listening to, briefly. Mindy, I hope things are well. Things will work out as they should, usually.

  11. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    From an Jan 26 1883 Bridgton News (Maine)
    Just under Marl Twain’s speech “Women God Bless Them”

    “If we could get together all the tombstones we have set up over
    broken resolutions we should have material enough to set up
    a marble palace.”

    Jackie
    Good for you for sticking to your resolution to get fit and live healthy.

  12. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    “The lady that took everybody’s eye must have quite a few of them”.

  13. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    A 1787 penny – the first U.S. issued coin was worth a dollar in 1883.

    London England had a 14 story Apt. building 130 feet high.
    (The ski jump at Fenway in Boston was taller than that)

  14. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    Strip of 02.17.16:

    Perhaps especially because I used to teach literature and composition, the idea that some families still have collections of hard-copy books astounds me.

    Actually, I rarely see anyone reading hard-copy anything.

    It’s usually the incredibly small screen of a webphone.

  15. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers….

    While scrolling down through the comments I see a poster name Ian….what??? But this one is married….not too many Ian’s out there so it took me by surprise, as my Ian knows I post here. So welcome aboard Ian with a wife named Sarah.

    Good to have him home again…..been listening to some of his drama that he had with his roommate….the little $hit tried to squeeze another $300 out of Ian, so I went online this morning and stopped payment on that check. (hahahahaaha) Ian said he never worked…you get the jest. Just glad he got out of there Back at work at the hen house and even is going to the local pub and wash dishes some Friday nights and definitely Saturday nights.

    Indy Mindy, my thoughts and prayers are with you….Amen. And what Ruth says, is so true. We love and admire you.

    Jackie, I’m somewhat of a light eater too….think I will copy down your list, and applying it.

    Old Bear….you sure do come up with some witty saying, I enjoy reading them.

    Gary….dang, you have my sympathy and concern…stay safe, and keep us posted.

    Ya’ll have a blessed day…………….

  16. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR 😉 yes, I always liked that song….

    …so, changes in the air, to roll on the break we are on the brink of, we are…….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEidbkibsiE&list=RDnEidbkibsiE

    just turn your speakers up a little….great wake up………………..

  17. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Gary…you gotta get this cat 🙂

    http://cheezburger.com/8746162688

  18. Crab in Grapeland Avatar
    Crab in Grapeland

    Today’s strip (02-17-2016) was very funny. Windows 98 was just the right touch. I have shevles full of manuals for computer languages that probably don’t exist any more (that was worse than the Kentucky derby) and have probelms throwing THEM out.

  19. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    Yes with my wife being an author we had books and books and books. With my wife, it would have been Karen Kingsbury, who is also a very successful Christian Romance author. Well, Karen is a LOT more successful!

    My wife’s attitude was if she really liked the book, then she would get it on Kindle. Of course if it was a cookbook, we kept it. It is a lot easier to cook with a real book in front of you.

  20. emb Avatar
    emb

    Crab: Welcome. The Grapeland near Houston, TX, or near Claremont, CA? Peace, emb

  21. Matthew Avatar
    Matthew

    Thanks for the comic-strip suggestions, Mr. Johnston. WALLACE THE BRAVE and FOWL LANGUAGE are good.

    In re this week’s strips: I, too, have a copy of WINDOWS 98 [or something like it] FOR DUMMIES, and, when my wife suggested that it could be, well, Goodwill’d, I had a wrench. (What if Windows 98 comes back, and I need to re-learn it?)

    One’s books are one’s memories, and signposts of where one has been and who one has been.

  22. Gary Avatar
    Gary

    Thanks Debbe, that cat might work better than my current snowblower. I have a broken shear pin and I can’t extract the old one to replace it. The left side of the snowblower is dead. It is really hard to use with only half the blades working. I am staying home today to try and do some surgery on it. (I stayed home yesterday too because going out would have been nuts.)

  23. TruckerRon Avatar

    We have hundreds of hardcover books and even more paperbacks in our collection in our home.

    As a trucker I hauled many loads of recycled cardboard to the Smurfit-Stone plant in Frenchtown (next door to Missoula MT) and almost as many loads of new cardboard from that plant. I was shocked to learn it had been shut down shortly after my SCA forever ended my driving career. It, like I, has been repurposed.