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

Est. 1985

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The Remote Present

By Jimmy Johnson


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There is one good thing about being comic-strip characters: if you’re tired of that icky brown sofa, you easily can change it into an icky green sofa. If you don’t like that, you just change it back. The sofa in A&J, which practically is a character actor in its own right, is an almost identical copy of a sofa I owned in 1984, when I was developing the strip. It was easy to draw, which was a big plus in those days, and it was low, ideal for 360-degree viewing. However, I did not do a lot of complicated camera angles in those days. I drew mostly in profile, which required the least skill, and that included the sofa, for years depicted mostly as a square. As I said, it was easy to draw. Occasionally, I still will draw the sofa from profile, usually with Arlo’s head popping out of the top as he’s watching TV, but when you see that these days you can be sure I was pressed for time.

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79 responses to “The Remote Present”

  1. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    “Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.”
    Ben Franklin

    Got comments but no time now. Heading to the arms of Morpheus.

  2. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers…

    Overslept….yay!!!!

    OK, here’s my two cents worth, do any of you remember Way Out Russell? I think the Society of the Village Orphanage has a ‘sibling’….Way out Russel was good…..had us going for quite a while. I often wonder how the three of them, no wait, 4 of them are doing…John, Mindy….and my mind slips into “I cant think right now.”

    gotta go….

    ya’ll have a blessed day.

  3. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR 😉 maybe you should start you cardio exercises with this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGyOaCXr8Lw

    🙂