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, 3 months ago
Right, Fred Flinstone drives by the same house in the background over and over and over…
exoticdoc2 said, 3 months ago
Been happening for a long time. Even as a kid I noticed a vast difference between the old original Popeye animation and the new crud they put out in later years, not to mention Looney Tunes and others. Even the good sound and classical music was replaced by poorly produced lame sound effects and “music” that sounded like it came from kids’ toy instruments.
ibbshop said, 3 months ago
I saw what you did there, Jimmy… ;)
peterhuppertz said, 3 months ago
And so did I :-)
wcorvi said, 3 months ago
Uhhh, guys, every panel is identical except for the text.
treblemaker said, 3 months ago
@wcorvi
@wcorvi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk
Kuldip Rai said, 3 months ago
If you look closely, the wall is actually various shades of white in each frame, giving each one a distinct look.
Most people just aren’t sophisticated enough to notice such intricacies
(sarcasm, in case it wasn’t obvious)
duemore4u said, 3 months ago
Oh! Jimmy, jimmy, jimmy, Jimmy!
AshburnStadium said, 3 months ago
@exoticdoc2
I, too, noticed that. Look at the difference between Warner Bros. cartoons from just after World War II all the way to the late 1950s compared to the junk that was put out from the mid-1960s.
The first sign of deterioration was the retirement of musical genius Carl Stalling and his replacement by Milt Franklyn. After Franklyn left, the music went down the toilet under Bill Lava.
The Popeye cartoons also went downhill from the Famous/Paramount quality to the later ones.
Whenever Filmation got their hands on a cartoon, they ruined it as well.
N said, 3 months ago
Janis? Where are you?
Q4horse said, 3 months ago
Aren’t all modern cartoons computer animations now?
jeffc42
said, 3 months ago
Sadly newspaper cartoons/comics met their match when the size kept shrinking (leading to Bill Watterson’s many fights over size and his ultimate departure).
emjaycee said, 3 months ago
@simpsonfan2
Not to mention the same table, lamp, chair (optional) and side hallway when inside the house. But that is what made it fun.
If you want extremely limited animation, watch “Fat Albert” from the 70s: the original talking heads. “Animaniacs” did a great send-up of those characters being self-aware that they could not chase the protagonists during an encounter.
doublepaw said, 3 months ago
Should have saved that trick for a Sunday strip.
JDS said, 3 months ago
@ibbshop
As long as the sofa is salmon-colored, I’m good with it..