From the salmon-colored sofa that is the center of the Arlo & Janis universe, this unique and quixotic comic strip has been just about everywhere. From unvarnished human drama to flights of unfettered comic fantasy, from unabashed pathos to unsurpassed observational wit, Arlo & Janis is perhaps the most unpigenholeable comic strip ever. It also invents new words!
The characters Arlo and Janis have played the parts of mermaids, squirrels, alligators and grasshoppers over the years, all while exploring the unexaggerated human condition and managing to become, with their son Gene, perhaps the most believable family in the funny pages. This unique approach has garnered Arlo & Janis an intelligent and engaged readership and guaranteed that a percentage of it will be confused at any given moment. However, readers eagerly return every day for another quaff from what has been the holy grail for a generation of comic-strip authors: quintessential Boomer humor.
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Wabbit
said, 9 months ago
Gene is So cute! I want to see him lots more!
afficionado said, 9 months ago
Arlo always regrets his big mouth
mrbribery said, 9 months ago
probably more interesting than Arlo’s day…
Varnes said, 9 months ago
That’s why the baby of the family, (me) gets treated so much better than the poor suckers that came before, when parents didn’t know the easy way to do things….Plop ’em in front of the TV and everything is OK…
Doctor Toon said, 9 months ago
If you shouldn’t use the TV as a babysitter, how about as a distraction?
Some of those kid stories can go on
and on
and on
toppop52 said, 9 months ago
…and then Billy went, no wait, that was Tommy! Then Tommy went, “No way Jose!” And I said……..
Dani Rice
said, 9 months ago
And this girl said to this other girl…
jackdohany
said, 9 months ago
Looks weird. Maybe because it was drawn in 1987?
prrdh said, 9 months ago
@Dani Rice
“Said”. Boy, that’s a word I haven’t heard in a coon’s age. Brings tears of nostalgia to my eyes…
prrdh said, 9 months ago
@Varnes
As opposed to firstborns, whose parents are afraid that if they start toilet training a day too early or too late, the kid will grow up to be an axe murderer.
whmIII said, 9 months ago
Here we go…
riverhawk
said, 9 months ago
And he was like. And then I was like “no way” and he was like " oh yes way" and they ere like. ……. SPEAK ENGLISH !!!!!
Gokie5 said, 9 months ago
@riverhawk
Right on,riverhawk! At the airport the other day, I had to listen to a valleygirl baby boomer who used “like” twice in most of her sentences. I felt like saying, “Lady, would you mind with the ‘likes’!” But I controlled myself.
Gokie5 said, 9 months ago
Also, I think it’s fascinating that many baby boomers are able to insert “you know” as a greatly shortened one-syllable utterance into just about every pronouncement. They do it unconsciously. I’ve heard Hillary Clinton do it.
This is not to say that Gene talks like a valley girl or a baby boomer.
Jkiss
said, 9 months ago
Liketotallyfersuredudeyaknow. :-) I’ll still take that over text talk. I can at least understand valley girl. LOL