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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simpsonfan2 said, 6 months ago
Dogs have family, cats have staff.
Varnes said, 6 months ago
Yes, Arlo, he’s counting on it…He’s a cat…
Tirasmol
said, 6 months ago
@simpsonfan2
so true
Fairportfan2 said, 6 months ago
“Get busy, thumb beast! There are tuna cans to be opened!”
Dunestrider said, 6 months ago
Dogs think, “these people feed me, protect me and love me. They must be gods!” Whereas cats think, “these people feed me, protect me and love me. I must be a god!”
whmIII said, 6 months ago
Ludy has it made…
MikeFromMichigan
said, 6 months ago
There comes a time in the life of every set of servants to a cat, where they ask themselves that question. However, I am proud to admit that one of the many cats I’ve been associated with over my lifetime, I taught to roll over, and once we went on a walk around the block, and the cat was completely unleashed and free…‘Cat’ stayed with me and we successfully finished it in reasonable time.
Countrysinger1951 said, 6 months ago
Those “puppies” of Janis’ should be needing some “petting” too….. but I don’t think her hormones are working tonight……………….. :(
finale said, 6 months ago
In ancient Egypt cats were gods…they’ve never forgoten.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
@simpsonfan2
Dogs have family, cats have entourages.
whmIII said, 6 months ago
@Countrysinger1951
Sometimes I think Arlo is a little slow…
tramey said, 6 months ago
I am not my cat’s staff, I am his lounge chair.
Mountaingreenery said, 6 months ago
Ludwig is an odd looking cat, but he certainly acts like a real one.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
I think Ludwig is supposed to be a Russian Blue hair but they color him a delicious purple.
K M
said, 6 months ago
My wife and I had two cats right after we got married. They would follow me around like dogs. If they were in front of the house and I went out the back to get the mail, they’d stop patrolling the front of the house, come around to the back and fall in behind me on the walk to the mailbox (collective mailbox at the other end of the block). They’d wait while I got the mail; they’d follow me back to the house. I’d go in the back; they’d go back around the front of the house and resume patrolling. I didn’t teach them that. After all, you can’t teach a cat anything.