I wonder how many plays on words are attached to the name of hair-styling establishments; they seem particularly vulnerable to attempted cleverness. I thought I might as well play out this string from 1997 and show you the first image of Arlo with his then-new haircut. I hate drawing hair. There is nothing more challenging about cartooning for me than drawing hair. Long or short, I have always thought Arlo’s hair looks ridiculous, but by now he wouldn’t be Arlo without that hair. However, no one has ever complained about Arlo’s hair. But Janis! There are people out there who hate her hair and are always asking stuff like, “Why does she have a pot on her head?” I was giving a talk one time when two women in the audience got into a heated exchange about Janis’ hair. One thought it was terrible, and the other thought it was fine. I’ve always thought it looks all right, for cartoon hair. Better than Arlo’s!
148 responses to “Hair’s Arlo!”
Blessings on everyone, especially Debbe and anyone else going through problems.
JJ, Why is Go Comics off the internet? Can’t get the server to respond.
Pax vobisum. God bless us every one.
JJ I think you do fine on hair and hands. I hated hands and feet, I can’t remember you doing bare feet but you must, it goes with bikinis and beaches and water and semi nudity.
Debbe life is a soap opera AND a reality television series if ever it her were real and sometimes it is a sit com and a muder mystery . I think sometimes we choose our own channels.
Life doesn’t come with a remote, you have to get up to change the program.
Tablet to blame, not Hal or Hal Jr. We need edit button.
I like Arlo’s “new” do. And I’m very glad that Janis no longer wears a pot on her head. 🙂
Yes drawing anything to 90% of us is challenging. You have improved over the years. The only person that has hair that is easy to draw is trump. But that is because it is ridiculous. Oh and Jimmy Durante Richard Nixon had noses most of us could draw.
Oh yes, Hair Establishments are right up there in the punny business . . .
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/behold-the-ultimate-crowdsourced-map-of-punny-businesses-in-america
Jimmy, you got it exactly right in the retro. The very last thing a guy does when leaving the barber shop is brush off the remaining clippings. No matter how much they brush you with that powdered brush, there are always a few strays looking to go down your collar.
Did you ever notice that each time that you get a haircut, your hair has more silver highlights?
Or scalp?
GoComics not working. Yahoo no longer carries A&J, local paper doesn’t carry it….not getting daily strip and I am having withdrawals.
Seems like you (JJ) once mentioned here that you found drawing the ocean challenging as well. RE names of hair salons, In North Carolina (where I used to live) every hair salon (with a licensed beautician) has to have a unique name that applies only to that shop. I think that spurs the creativity. Imagine having to come up with a name that’s different from all the hundreds that are already out there.
My favorite hair establishment name: Curl Up and Dye, from the movie “Earth Girls Are Easy”, a film perhaps best remembered for the salon name and for often it managed to show Geena Davis (a former VS lingerie model) in a bikini or just her underwear.
I once designed an Order/Shipping/Billing/Inventory program for a friend’s multistate beauty supply operation and used Curl Up and Dye as a customer name for training purposes.
Ha! Curl up and dye! What a great name. My wife used to have a fun special day coloring fabric once per year. She always said that she was going to dye on her birthday. You should have seen the reactions.
Anyway, today’s strip reminded me that mother-in-law jokes are fertile ground, especially gentle ones like this. Good job keeping A&J in the segment about the coast people!
But THAT then reminds me: Have we ever seen either Arlo or Janis’ mother? I can’t remember it.
Yes, Arlo Mom and Dad, a number of times. Janis’s Dad, also, but don’t remember seeing her Mom. She references her grandmothers occasionally, and didn’t one of her Grannies make an appearance in the “Six-Foot Dust Bunny” series?
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince is now formally alive. He was somewhat of an acquired taste I never really acquired. I did kind of like 1999 (Party Like It’s 1999), perhaps because that was in the heyday of my own partying years.
“Formerly alive”. Formally “not alive”.
I do remember from the Harvey series that we got see a good bit of Janis’s bare butt when the doctor was about to give her an injection.
And today’s cartoon reminds me: Does Mary Lou ever wear a bra anymore? (Wonder whatever became of her “$10 tip” server outfit.)
Paging Jackie: This place will apparently feature two of your favorite things…food and naturalism.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/london-gets-first-naked-restaurant-waiting-list-already-at-5000-a6992696.html
Would I enjoy my (presumably) expensive meal while surrounded with views of other peoples’ junk? Doubtful.
I am sitting in the French Press tastefully and fully dressed enjoying Cajun Benedict. I used to spend the night here often when it was a newspaper print shop, editing the newspaper.
When A Man Loves A Woman playing, the international festival being given set up all over downtown. I am moving on from Lafayette,, LA heading north. Hate to leave.
Cajun Benedict is toasted slices of French bread topped with Heberts awesome Boudain and two packed eggs, then topped with Andoille and chicken gumbo. It needed a few fried oysters thrown on top to go over the top.
Quote from the article: revisit the beginning where everything was fresh, free and unadulterated from the trappings of modern life.’
Is it also free of modern sanitation, food safety, refrigeration and pest control? I consider all of these “trappings of modern life”, and darn good ones, too.
Wolf Blitzer reportedly said that Prince was known for Purple Haze….#EpicFail.
Perhaps he was describing him, not giving him credit. Don’t get me wrong. I actually liked him.
“Cut, curl. clip and comb. How can I help you?”
I must have missed something. Every time I’ve walked past a TV this afternoon, one or the other of the 24-hour “news” channels was doing wall-to-wall TAFKAP coverage…the kind normally given to deceased heads of state. What, there weren’t any candidates for president insulting each other today on which to report?