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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exoticdoc2 said, 2 months ago
No, cats are just prone to blank expressions.
thebird55 said, 2 months ago
“Wait….did I bury that last deposit?”
WillardMBaker said, 2 months ago
Cats can see spirits also.
emjaycee said, 2 months ago
(Pounds the desk) I KNEW it! My cat IS a scientific genius. The sudden ‘whuh’ look given mid-lick is merely her mentally going over the isotopic variables that have been eluding her during the ‘midnight freak-out running through the room’ that I experience when all this time she was actively doing science computations. It’s official: I have the feline-female Sheldon Cooper.
Varnes said, 2 months ago
I think he farted….an SBD….
Fairportfan2 said, 2 months ago
Invisible Martians…
AshburnStadium said, 2 months ago
@WillardMBaker
I see spirits all the time. However, I work in a liquor store!
Anna said, 2 months ago
@emjaycee
You are exactly right! I too have often wondered what they were doing when they appeared deep in THUNK, as my husbnd calls it. Now we know!!!
ScullyUFO said, 2 months ago
I brake for hallucinations, too!
orestm said, 2 months ago
@
:-) My thoughts exactly!
JoeStoppinghem
said, 2 months ago
Mine will every once and a while just stare at the ceiling, waiting for us to look as well.
Once that happens, then he stops staring…
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I swear I hear him chuckling.
finale said, 2 months ago
It’s like….“I know more than I let on; is it lunchtime?”
Rockngolfer said, 2 months ago
I have a cat story from yesterday.
She lay down on the indoor-outdoor carpet between two chairs that have X bases and casters.
There wasn’t much room. When she got up a claw on her right front paw hooked into the carpet and she looked like she was doing the hokey pokey trying to step this way and that.
I moved a chair so she could get the angle to unhook her claw.
Rescue complete.
katybissell said, 2 months ago
@emjaycee
Love it :)
strickmaedel
said, 2 months ago
It’s the Higgs boson. Boson isn’t the name of one of the physicists who worked on the original theory; a boson is a type of elementary particle. (Several scientists did come up with the same idea at about the same time, and Peter Ware Higgs is one of them.)