Day 3, and ten more classic cartoons featuring young Gene, these from 1990. It seems most of you are enjoying this look back at the early days of Arlo & Janis, with emphasis on the family son. I’m glad of that, and I thank you for being here. If you’ve just arrived, we have been doing this since Monday, so scroll back a couple of days and catch up on the 20 old cartoons that have already been posted. For you regulars here at the Web site, Mike Peterson said some nice things about you recently in his impressive blog “Comic Strip of the Day.” 1n 1990, Gene’s appearance had stabilized, but the humor noticeably was taking on a more unique character, trending away from jokes that could be transplanted into the speech balloons of any comic strip child. If Gene wasn’t growing yet, the strip was.
90 responses to “Gene, Gene, Gene…”
Man, I’d forgotten how much I love Gene.
Just an FYI – Mike’s CSotD blog is now on The Daily Cartoonist (http://www.dailycartoonist.com). Thanks for the plethora of old strips; they’re great. (Use Tony T. Tiger’s voice for those last couple words.)
Jimmy:
I couldn’t find anything about Arlo and Janis or us regulars at Comic Strip of the Day.
What am I missing?
Jimmy is being gracious to include the village in the recognition given here,
http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2018/08/03/comic-strip-of-the-day-friday-funnies-2/
And giving us another source of cartoon enjoyment. If there was another mention, I didn’t go back far enough. Mike Peterson’s interpretive commentary concentrates more on political opinion than comedy. But there are more authors gathered on that site for variety.
If you are near Columbus, OH, you might want to go to this sale: https://library.osu.edu/blogs/cartoons/2018/08/03/billy-ireland-cartoon-library-book-sale/
found this through the cartoonist of the day site.
Here is where I make an admission I may not have admitted here. I disliked Arlo and Janis during the cute kid Gene period. Actually pretty much disliked it.
Have never been a kid stfkp fan with exceptkon of Charlie Brown. Even wise cracking kids. When Gene aged with strop I began to like and finally enjoy. And Jamis whined less.
Anonymous: You sound like my mother! She didn’t enjoy being around my daughters until they were teenagers and could talk about a wide range of topics. Little kids bored her.
Anonymous:
Thanks for the link, but I still see no mention of the village.
Would you mind copying and pasting the text in here so that I can finally see what you are seeing?
its been great to see young Gene again. Now wish we could see how Gene & family are doing today
Rick, if you click on the link Anonymous put in, the Arlo and Janis strip is at the top of the page. Should be the first thing you see. It’s the one where Janis is reading the heat advisory on her phone, then tells the young neighbor she and Arlo are ok. Then the site’s writer talks about how he can relate to the strip.
🙂 they didn’t try toooo hard to find Luddy’s original home! glad everything worked out. I’m enjoying the Gene-fest, too.
Let’s all play follow the bouncing kitten! Fun times with the new and the retro. Thank you, Jimmy. Really a lot to look forward to.
Tactical Equipment…
blog topic…
Not our topic. Please delete, Jimmy, might be virus load.
Rick, even though he didn’t say so today, I think Jimmy is continuing his repeat posts from several years ago. So the Comic Strip of the Day post would be from that day. I’m sure he knows CSotD has moved, and he would have given the new URL if this were not a repeat.
So we may be getting the United States Space Force. Cool!*
Via iowahawk, your Space Force name is your favorite sound effect + your favorite kitchen appliance. Jackie says hers is Kaapow Blender. Mine is Smash Griddler.
*Of course, we’ve actually had one since 1982…it’s called the Air Force Space Command, and there are some right bright folks working there.
My sister and I have moved Back East to Trinidad, CO and are camping out in our new home (Well, it’s new to us.) until the movers get our stuph here. We’re at an elevation of 6153 feet, just over a nautical mile above sea level. Take that, you flatlanders in Denver! We don’t have Internet at home yet, so I’m only on occasionally at the library. Will try to keep in touch.
Mark:
I found that site immediately, but I didn’t see any sort of mention about the regulars.
I’m just giving up and going on.
Bookworm:
Good point.
Even better reason to pack it up.
Rick, I also missed Bookworm’s reading and assumed the header of this page was current. The link I gave was the most recent mention of Arlo and Janis by Peterson. I grew tired of wading through his opinion of other opinions in what used to be called editorial cartoons to find more. Since I had misunderstood, like you, that Jimmy’s introduction was written recently I interpreted him as being gracious enough to cast a little reflected limelight on the village regulars where none was present. No hidden crumbs were meant to tantalize, there is no text to provide. And since there is not a bracketed boldface introduction to the introduction at top here, I too agree with Bookworm’s observation. Sorry for the misleading intrusion.
prior anon:
Believe me, no apology is necessary. I appreciate it, but I never took offense at you or anyone else.
And if you’re cat is happy, you should be happy too. Contented purrs should bring smiles all round.
https://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2018/08/11
Birds don’t have tum buttons, but then, Shoe’s females have boobs, so I’ll pass. Peace,
Black-faced guenon’s, I believe. It says all 4 cams are live.
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Peace,
:0 Jimmy! No buttons IS aggravating- but there is always the power cord to pull and a book to read 🙂