FYI, a new season of “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern” kicked off Tuesday night on the Travel Channel. Andrew has come a long way since he broke into our consciousness as “that guy who eats weird stuff” although he still does that. And speaking of Ludwig, the cat. You know how a cartoonist sometimes will copy a comic strip panel, usually of talking heads, and sequentially paste it, changing only the dialog, or maybe a few details to throw you off? It’s very easy and very common (and very tempting!) in this digital age. I’m not being judgmental; I’ve done it myself in a pinch. The point I want to make is, sometimes repetition serves a purpose. Take, for example, today’s A&J appearing at GoComics.com and in newspapers. The gag is built around the merciless stare of cats. Each panel is individually drawn and inked, as usual, except for the cat figure, which was copied and pasted three times. Works perfectly.
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Getting ready to drive up to SLC for a Red Cross luncheon/awards thing with my wife. And we’re not in your time zone, Jackie, so getting up at 7:30 our time on a Saturday isn’t sleeping in that much!
Thanks, Mark/TT.
..and a happy, rainy Caturday to all….esp to you Cxp. You are a very fortunate man to come out not seriously hurt. Glad to have read that your MBH is on the look out for you.
Mark, sounds like it’s time for antibiotics…take care of yourself.
Jackie, you are one busy lady…I’ve been busy too 🙂 : https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9119300352/hBE918C23/ …and I’m still looking!!
Going to venture out and get some milk for Dad, rain is ended. Temps are dropping too.
later….
Debbe, that’s a good one. Doc put me on Azithromycin for 5 days. Said I ought to be feeling better by day 4. Monday, I guess. Thanks and be careful if it’s raining out. Some people seem to lose IQ points when they drive in rain or snow!
January 26, you drew Ludwig once, copied it, and pasted it three times. True confessions!! I suspect the same with other comic strips. But this is different! This is good! Here Luddie is staring! Looking at it knowing all this now makes him look sort of Egyptian or something.
Thank you, Jimmie. Love knowing that.
When *was* the last time Ludwig made a vocaliztion? One silent cat.
By “inked,” you mean hand-drawn, not computer for the 26th? Zowie.
Salute!
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/beetle_bailey_cartoonist_mort.html#incart_river_home
Another of Schulz’s contemporaries has passed. And another of my long time favorites.
Be of good cheer, Mark. Based on our experience with our respiratory infections between Thanksgiving and about a week ago, in six to eight weeks you should be feeling as right as rain. 😀
Thanks Ghost. You may be closer to the truth than you expect. I’ve had something since the Friday before New Year’s. I think I had the flu first and about the time that wound down, this crept in on its coattails. I am sick of being sick and hope the rest of 2018 leaves me well.
Cartooning lost a great artist/ writer today, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/01/27/beetle-bailey-creator-mort-walker-94-created-laughter-nearly-every-day-of-his-life/?utm_term=.98a7353ca245
Mark – good luck with the bronchitis. Hope you feel better soon. Maybe you (and Ghost) have had RSV infections – that’s a virus that usually causes mild symptoms in adults but can put babies or people whose immune systems are compromised (for instance, fighting another problem) in the hospital. Symptoms most commonly last only about a week, but can take several weeks to get over. Two of my grandkids got it in pre-school and were coughing for a month.
Judy I was worse than Ghost. I coughed so badly and so long my vocal chords were damaged. I developed severe laryngitis and, horrors, could not make a sound.
Yet I never had a degree of fever.
Twenty-five boxes of kleenex and antibiotics and narcotic cough syrup I began to improve.
And thanks to this I know the answer to question Ghost raised last year.
How much snot can the human nose produce??
There would have been a heck of a pun baked into today’s cartoon if Arlo had used “broad jump” instead of “long jump”. Alas, the latter term has likely been declared politically incorrect.
There was a previous cartoon regarding Janis’s dash for the bed on a cold winter’s night. I remember it well, as she was stripping off her clothes and donning her nightgown on the fly. I’ll post a link when I have time to look it up.