Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 25, 2010
June 24, 2010
June 26, 2010
Transcript:
Dad: Ooh. Petey's school yearbook. Wonder if anybody wrote in it? Just one quick peek. Book: Petey Potterpoop, hope you turn into a human being over the summer. xox Viola D'Amore. Dad: "Petey Potterpoop"? I haven't heard that in 30 years. Petey: DAD! Stop reading my personal private stuff!
leakysqueaky712 almost 14 years ago
OHHH ……He was one too!!!
DetectiveKemper almost 14 years ago
Can this mean…Petey is his own father!!! Could his weirdness have sent him through time to father himself??? Or can the artist only draw just so many faces? You decide.
margueritem almost 14 years ago
I’m with you, Petey.
GROG Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Like Father, like Son.
Downundergirl almost 14 years ago
ooooh. two kisses and a hug from Viola!
LHPuttgrass almost 14 years ago
“Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time … a long time.”
runar almost 14 years ago
How about BettyJo Bialowski?
joefish25 almost 14 years ago
Melanie Farber?
WaitingMan almost 14 years ago
“Antelope Freeway, 1/256 of a mile.”
cleokaya almost 14 years ago
Viola D’Amore, such a perfect name for a future lover.
runar almost 14 years ago
…all the sights and sounds of Pig Night came rushing back to me like the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist!”
Everyone knew her as Nancy.
Christopher Shea almost 14 years ago
… Viola D’Amore? Did I just see a Finnegans Wake reference in a newspaper comic?
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Haven’t read it myself, Christopher, but it’s highly likely. RT has mentioned his love of Joyce.
Besides, if you ever were to see a “Finnegan’s Wake” reference in a newspaper comic, isn’t this where you’d expect to see it? A month or so ago we had a hidden John Cage gag…
COWBOY7 almost 14 years ago
You tell him, Petey!
Ushindi almost 14 years ago
Don’t know if it’s a reference to “Finnegan’s Wake” or to the “Love Viol” itself - only Richard knows why she has that name…
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
He might tell us, at some point; on his blog he’s mentioned that “Otterloop” is a pun on “outer loop”, reflecting the strip’s Beltway origins…
Shameless Plug (since RT’s too modest to do so himself): The “Cul de Sac Golden Treasury of Keepsake Garland Classics” is being released early! It’ll be available this Monday, June 28. You can already order it from Amazon.com, and it’ll be delivered right to your door!
DonVanni almost 14 years ago
runar: You mean Nancy!
richardcthompson Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Thanks for the plug, Fritzoid!
Viola D’Amore is named after the instrument of the same name (the viola d’amore http://www.violadamore.com ) . Just because I like it. I haven’t read enough Joyce to do anything more than fake a little knowledge in his stuff for cartoon purposes (http://tinyurl.com/24zhjl3).
runar almost 14 years ago
Don, she’s in the aviary studying trees. You may wait here in the sitting room or sit there in the waiting room.
Dirty Dragon almost 14 years ago
WaitingMan:
By any chance are you waiting for the electrician, or someone like him?
Dyceiretak about 6 years ago
hm… Viola’s mother, maybe?