Lio by Mark Tatulli

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Margueritem said, 4 months ago

For some reason the drawings are fuzzy. I think that’s a pinup picture that Dad hung up. No wonder Lio is confused.
fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

… Marilyn Monroe? Maybe?
cadgyod said, 4 months ago

Farrah Fawcett
The_JAM said, 4 months ago

A moment of silence for a TRUE star…
Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

Something didn’t scan right.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Yes, that’s the famous Farrah poster. Dad is thinking fondly of her. So am I. RIP, Farrah!
rmleon said, 4 months ago

Yep. Farrah. I miss her.
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

And now Lio too shall think fondly of her. No telling what his twisted little mind will think of now.
Carmy said, 4 months ago

Aw, Dad is making a toast to Farrah (R.I.P).
jelindley said, 4 months ago

I thought that was a Farrah Fawcett poster. Yes, RIP.
myhaircut said, 4 months ago

That’s sweet. A nice tribute.
baslim_the_begger said, 4 months ago

Lio’s dad will never win a best dressed award, but he has a lot of class.
DetectiveKemper said, 4 months ago

Probably now that Farrah is dead, Lio will find her more attractive.
hlkstr said, 4 months ago

that is a Farrah Fawcett. I remember it well. Rest in Peace Farrah.
lippone said, 4 months ago

A wonderful tribute. Rest in Peace Farrah. Thanks Mark.
He-Manatee said, 4 months ago

Yeah, Farrah was cute, but she was no Bea Arthur! Rrrrooowwwwrrr!!!!
jterran said, 4 months ago

If you click on the comic it enlarges it, that’s how I was able to tell it was Farrah. But still horribly fuzzy for some reason.
WickedCrazy said, 4 months ago

R.I.P Farrah. Thanks Mark.
AddADadaAdDad said, 4 months ago

I recognized that poster right off, fuzzy or not. Just shows how old I am. & Dad’s private memorial service is priceless. R.I.P., Farrah & Thanks, Mark.
DigitalFrog said, 4 months ago

Nice touch - I was feeling sorry for Farrah’s family, her’s and Ed’s passing was greatly overshadowed by the whole MJ circus.
mtatulli said, 4 months ago

I don’t know what’s up with the quality of today’s strip. Technical error. I’m looking into it now.

MT
cleokaya said, 4 months ago

Yes, with all the over the top coverage of MJ, it is nice to see Farrah get a little attention.
jackdohany said, 4 months ago

Mark, if you can get the quality of the strip fixed, we’d all love to see it again one of these days. It’s got to be one of the best comic strips of all time.
Rmom said, 4 months ago

I too, wish there was less coverage on MJ, and more on Farrah. Farrah wasn’t perfect, but still a much more positive role model than MJ.
James Riendeau said, 4 months ago

I had to look up who Farrah Fawcett was, and found that the comic was an all too apropos tribute: another sex symbol of a bygone era stored in the celeb attic when the beauty started to fade. sigh
pookid54 said, 4 months ago

Mark, you’re a class act. Today’s strip is just like Farrah …. simply beautiful.
mtatulli said, 4 months ago

OK, there we go all fixed…just hot refresh and it should look a-OK
caucel said, 4 months ago

Nice Mark. Great Tribute!
Hehehe is a nice tribute I think, Lio dad is happy seen it ;)
David said, 4 months ago

Thank you. At least someone remembers.
bald 716 said, 4 months ago

a fitting tribute to farrah. thank you very much mark
i don’t know if farrah would have wanted all the media hoopla, she was a more classy person than that
Doctor Toon said, 4 months ago

I remember that poster.
I had the poster.
Thank you Farrah for being one of the prime fantasy women for my generation.
Thank you Mark.
nighthawks said, 4 months ago

a sad reminder of our fallibility and eventual demise
wyrm282 said, 4 months ago

I think the reason MJ’s death is being so publicized is cause it seems a lot like Elvis’s. It’s nice to see Farrah being noticed a lil more. All i saw the day MJ died was one small blurb about her beside MJ’s big death announcement. I understand that MJ’s was unexpected and all and Farrah was already having health problems but still…
fritzoid said, 4 months ago

“[A]nother sex symbol of a bygone era stored in the celeb attic when the beauty started to fade.”

James, there was a little more to her than that. Although she could have, Farrah did NOT trade solely on her looks. With her stint in *Extremities” on Broadway and in “The Burning Bed”, she pushed herself into roles that didn’t rely on her glamour to sell the story. (That doesn’t mean she was a GREAT actress, or ever would have been, but she was more than the hair and the smile and the jiggles.)

Well into her illness she was an extraordinarily attractive woman, and her relative invisibility (apart from in the gossip rags, for which alas she DID provide fodder) in later years was not because her looks had faded but simply because time marches on. Farrah was a true icon, but she was an icon of the 1970’s.

For an historical perspective, check out this newspaper article from 1977, headlined “President Calls for Calm Following Nipple Sighting on Farrah Fawcett Poster”:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/63842
jestrfyl said, 4 months ago

I too have cracked a cold one in her memory.

Now I am expecting Lio to Moonwalk to a Thriller beat in another strip. Somehow I expect Thriller would be his idea of the perfect music video. That or Staind!
wolfe526 said, 4 months ago

Good Bye Farrah, Karl, and Gale. All overshadowed by MJ.
carsc23 said, 4 months ago

Perfect.
VancouverRaven said, 4 months ago

There weren’t many males who lived through the seventies who didn’t admire that poster, myself included, and she carried herself more gracefully than many young stars of today.
pollyjim said, 4 months ago

I really appreciate your tribute to Farrah. She was a real class act - just compare her quiet burial to the circus that is MJ. Her last TV special about her struggle with cancer was a very courageous thing to do.
my_discworld said, 4 months ago

I ran across that poster in my dad’s garage once. Daddy, who is that? Believe it was gone shortly thereafter.
big G 3469 said, 4 months ago

Suprised how Lio’s pop still kept that poster in great condition!
fritzoid said, 4 months ago

bigg, maybe he kept it under glass back in the day, for easy cleaning…
deadheadzan said, 4 months ago

What a nice tribute to Farrah- well done, Mark.
Burgundy2 said, 4 months ago

I’d like to add my compliments to the stack. Nice to see such a tastefully understated tribute - especially today!
kfaatz925 said, 4 months ago

Lovely tribute, Mark.
Kyler said, 4 months ago

Lol, that was a great article, fritzoid! The Onion ftw!
BlueRaven said, 4 months ago

Very well done indeed, Mark.
Dypak said, 4 months ago

Thanks.
Furienna said, 4 months ago

With all due respect to Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson deserves all the tributes and attention, that he can possibly get. I’m hardly familiar with Farrah Fawcett at all, except from an episode of “Johnny Bravo”. She wasn’t that famous over here in Europe, I guess. But I’ve loved MJ for fourteen years, since I was eleven years old. And he wasn’t a bad role model in any way, RraMom. That was just ignorance and prejudice against him. I’ve just watched his memorial service, and it was really touching. And still, his daughter Paris (who’s only eleven years old) managed to make it even more touching with her short but very emotional speech.
pookid54 said, 4 months ago

Furienna…. and just what is wrong with paying tribute to someone else who passed away?Just because it happens that you don’t know who the person is? MJ does not deserve ALL the tributes……he’s not the only person who has ever passed away. He deserves his and everyone else deserves theirs….whether we know them or not.

Tatulli chose a tribute to Farrah because no one else did.