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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Varnes said, 7 months ago
She’s trying her best just to live with you, Arlo…
Varnes said, 7 months ago
Anyway, females of our species, what’s wrong with your guy gorging himself, after watching the Lions loose…and then dozing through the second game…Yeah, even if he snores…He’s all you’ve got babe……
Varnes said, 7 months ago
Hope he’s cute……
randayn
said, 7 months ago
Happy thankings everyone!
thebird55 said, 7 months ago
When mama’s not happy, nobody’s happy.
junieb said, 7 months ago
No parents, brothers, sisters? I’m seeing them all today, plus my grown kids. Maybe they’re better off : )
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
finale said, 7 months ago
Want some of ny relatives?….especially (gassy) Uncle Burt?
riverhawk
said, 7 months ago
I just walked past my wife she is cleaning the bathroom. Only three of our children are coming here today all I said was why are you doing that , I said I would do it, now she has that same look as Janis.
Dani Rice
said, 7 months ago
@riverhawk
And how long between your “I’ll do that” and her finally doing it herself?
prrdh said, 7 months ago
@Dani Rice
There is also the fact that, as Dave Barry puts it, "The woman and the guy have profoundly different concepts of “clean”. When the woman “cleans” a bathroom, she will…eradicate dirt on the molecular level…She will leave the commode clean enough to be used in a surgical procedure. Whereas the guy, if instructed to clean the bathroom, will go in there with a single paper towel and the first spray bottle he finds. It might be Raid, or it might be Windex. The guy will spend about three minutes in the bathroom, squirting stuff randomly…and then wiping it up…He will pay no attention to whether or not he is actually making the bathroom cleaner."
Of course, as Mr. Barry explains, there are perfectly sound biological reasons for this.
whmIII said, 7 months ago
I have a better idea…Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Happy, happy, happy!!!
said, 7 months ago
Happy, happy, happy Thanksgiving.
mabrndt
said, 7 months ago
Happy Thankgiving (eCard)
ArthurAllen said, 7 months ago
@Happy, happy, happy!!!
What are you going to post on Easter?
JoeStoppinghem
said, 7 months ago
Here’s to everyone’s Thanksgiving and hopes it gives them happiness, time to reflect that past year and best wishes for the next.