This old A&J is from October, 1995. Note the email address in the third panel. No, don’t write me there; it won’t do either of us any good. I called it to your attention, so I could mention that Arlo & Janis was one of the first strips out there to make use of email. Innovation was so easy back then! Speaking of innovation, I have seen the beta version of the new GoComics website, and you can, too. Go to the GoComics site and select “blog” from the menu there. Scroll down until you find the post about the new changes, and there’s a link there. It isn’t exactly what I was expecting, but I also was told this was to be a multi-phase project, so I will withhold comment. You, on the other hand, needn’t feel so constrained.
204 responses to “Good Bye Kiss”
Mark, I’m sorry for your Mom’s passing. Hugs and prayers.
Mark, It’s always a tough go, even when the details are best. Thoughts and prayers.
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Melcher’s in good form this morning.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Peace,
BTW, it’s title is simply ‘Turkish women’. Don’t rush to book a ticket; things have changed, for the better, actually. Peace,
Hoist on my own petard: Not “it’s title”, but “its title”. Peace,
Mark, I am so sorry. As Ghost said, at least she did not have to linger a long time, but it is still hard. Lotsa hugs…
Mark, you have my sympathy and condolences. May her memory be a blessing.
Mark is doing better guys. I am glad he did not have to personally deal with his mom’s death. The cancer was unknown and obviously far advanced, treatment seems at times futile, I know from hard experience, and the end is same.
Funeral is in Tuscaloosa but he doesn’t know when.
This is my absolute favorite A & J strip! This is the example I use when I tell people how good A & J is. I am lucky enough to own the original art work.
…And the Village loses another relative. Very sorry to hear about it, Mark; prayers, of course….
[From very early this morning] Check out today’s “Francis” cartoon.
Is this a Ghost kiss? That ‘s what I think of when I see this strip. Ghostly description of kissing Rich Widow Lady was pretty graphic.
Who needs porn when you have subtlety of A and J? Lucky you, Tom!
For those who haven’t found Friends of Arlo and Janis on Facebook, go join. Jim Young does a great job there, I am adding my comic and humor loving friends as members and contributing some subtle humor posts. Not risqué, just humor.
Yes, Jackie, it almost assuredly was a Ghost kiss.
To Smigz and all the others sending me condolences. Thank you very much. As I said to Ghost on the tail end of yesterday’s comments, this is how I wanted my Mom’s end to be. Quick, and as painless as possible. She died in her sleep. Her own mother had multiple strokes and lingered for years before dying. She was bedbound, unable to speak and on tube feeding. Not the way I want to go, nor what I wanted for Mom. Don’t know funeral details yet, other than she had completely prepaid her funeral in advance, so easier for us.
adding my condolences to those above – I am sorry for your loss.
So far the “Beta” Gocomics site under-impresses. Basically it appears optimized for portable devices like phones. Not bringing a lot new to long-time users and the conversations, IMO.
TSchultz: This ranks right up there with the “fashionably late to a party” cartoon. I don’t have it, but am lucky enough to have the originals to “a gentleman would have at least made a lewd comment” [Janis interrupted in the tub] and also “seen the sunset thousands of times, too”. The latter is my all-time favorite, I think.
Mark, sorry to hear of your loss.
Mark: There’s a lot to be said for going in your sleep, or sitting in your chair after dinner as my mom did many years ago. The memories that remain will soften the loss.
GoComics Beta.
Ok, I’m not a pro subscriber. I support cartoonists the old fashion way by subscribing to the newspaper. (Since the Tampa Bay Times bought the Tampa Tribune and closed it, I get A&J on a daily basis, ink on paper.)
I had some issues with the old GoComics in that the calendar did not work properly in Firefox (one had to go back one day before the calendar would allow any selection.) That has been fixed.
With the old GoComics, if you went to a previous strip, you had to use your back button to get to your original home page with your favorites along the top of the page. This was quite a pain if you read several previous days before returning to the home page and selecting the next comic. The beta version keeps your favorites on the top of the page while reading previous dates.
That said, the old version would advance your favorites so that your next selection was always in position 3 which was nice. The beta version presents large icons that do not advance so you must press the “advance” button to move to your next five favorites.
In previous surveys, I had suggested to GoComics that a date could be set once and one could review all the comics for that date (King Features does this on the Comics Kingdom page used by newspaper sites.) Apparently my request fell on deaf ears.
So, for me, the beta site has more pro’s than cons but not that many.
DaveP and Tom, thank you for the GoComics updates. I read A&J in our local paper, the Detroit Free Press, but do read other strips on GoComics.
This year continues to suck. I just leaned the mom of one of my best friends passed away.
You guys do know that you’re on the previous thread.
Never mind.
One day I hope to go to a moderately-priced restaurant and have the food taste anywhere near as good as the chain makes it look in their commercials.
Unlikely.
My, we must have had a bad meal. I hate when that happens.
The Whippenpoofs were wonderful. No wine and
Cheese however.