Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 22, 2009

Dill, are you sure you need more urgency?

“I’ll give you zest and urgency, Dill!!!”

Petey’s right. Water will short out their itty biddy lightbulbs. Dangerous game.

Dill is a true scholar

I sure hope Dill can outrun her. Unfortunately, Tennessee Charlie, I can remember Maggie & Jiggs. Maggie was a tough old gal.

Way to go Dill! This one was looking to be dull! ROTFLMAO!

Who knew DILL liked to live on the edge!?!

Dill gets a little wry at times…. :)

I remember Maggie & Jiggs. Talk about hen-pecking!! Jiggs couldn’t sneeze without Maggie going after him with a rolling pin. I also remember once Jiggs wanted Corned beef and cabbage for dinner, so he told Maggie and the cook how much he hated it. Of course, that’s what they fixed.

all of the abuse she heaps on the poor kid…. eventually you snap!! LOL RUN DILL RUN!!!! Boy you did it now!

Any comment that begins “Petey says…” is probably better drowned out anyway.

And if you combine yesterday’s strip with today’s, it leads to an old Pogo Possum gag. Rackety Coon chile’ has a water pistol and he aims it at the sun. Churchy grabs it and says “Keerful! You wanna put that OUT?”

the heck with what petey says…

dill just wanted to get some aerobic exercise for the day, and alice is glad to oblige

i too remember magie and jiggs, and the katzenjammer kids which were among my favorite strips way back when.

on another note, yesterday’s strip showed alice throwing mulch at the stars, the movie coraline which was released yesterday has a reference to mulch in it at about 41 minutes

Oh, yeah, Maggie & Jiggs, and “Our Boarding House” with Martha and Major Hoople? Boy, YOU guys must be old.

Edit: That made me think, of Captain Easy, Freckles and His Friends, Boots and Her Buddies, Terry and the Pirates, Alley OOp…… Boy, YOU guys must be old.

dailyink still runs vintage strips. They have Maggie and Jiggs (Bringing Up Father), Krazy Kat, Brick Bradford, Rip Kirby as well as the original Phantom, Beetle Baily and Flash Gordon. The Little King is there on Sundays.

I remember reading all those comics in newspapers my grandmother had saved for years. [I come by my packrat tendencies naturally]. Although they were from years before my time, I still enjoyed them.

From the various comments here and there, I can’t help but think that the majority of us regular comic readers are in the 50, 60 and well above range.

If so, I’d like to think it’s because we’re a carefree and light hearted bunch, but maybe it has more to do with being worn out, bored, and needing a good laugh.

: D

I saw a fellow on the subway yesterday whose head shape and amount of hair made me think for one split second that Dill had grown up and moved to NYC.

I read Maggie and Jiggs monday through Friday on my Daily Ink

grazer:

yup i am one of those 60 + people with some newer replacement parts coming in the near future myself.

RT of course is a HUGE fan of the classics. So subtle homage to Maggie and Jiggswould not surprise me…

This is almost panel-for-panel equivalent to an early Charlie Brown strip, where Charlie Brown gets the best of a girl (I think it was Patty [not Peppermint Patty], but not sure)