Lio by Mark Tatulli for March 03, 2017

Who’s the artist she paid? From some other famous comic strip?

Crockett Johnson’s “Harold and the Purple Crayon”

Your love is red. My mood is blue. I’ll use his purple crayon to get back at you.

One of my favorite books as a child!

She has summer teeth. Some are here and some are there.

doesn’t look purple…

This one would probably have been better suited to a Sunday strip.

Awesome, thanks Mark.

Awesome, thanks Mark.

I’ll second….er, third…what Durak said. I’d forgotten Harold and now can’t wait to introduce him to the young ’uns in the family.

Surely Lio has a friend who can counter this one.

If her past is as checkered as her teeth, he’s better off without her.

An anti-Lio device by a mercenary “guest artist”! Where’s your five-gallon tin of white-out, Lio?

(And thanks to DLKLABUNDE for identifying the hired crayon—-Have Crayon, Will Travel—, since I am not personally familiar with Harold….)