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

Est. 1985

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No jive

By Jimmy Johnson

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I don’t really remember, but this comic strip from 2005 looks suspiciously like one of those occasions where I was stuck for an idea and just started drawing funny little pictures, a time-honored cartoonist technique that more often than not produces good results. Charles M. Schulz was an outspoken proponent of this trick.

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