Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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Trail_Blazer said, about 1 year ago

Hey, there’s Thorax - on Edda’s right.

Man, those fly legs have gotta itch. Yuck!
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

HAH! You folks kept asking for him, so there he is!
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Altho, I can’t imagine actually getting away with this sort of “nigh nude” public walking in “real life.” Somebody would say something.
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Except, maybe, in San Francisco …
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

…and Seth.

San Francisco … and Washington, if you’re a powerful enough politician.
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago

Oh my garsh ! How embarrassking ! Uck Uck Uck.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 year ago

Brooke is seeeeeek. Seeek seeek seeeeek I tell you…

In San Fran or Ashland,OR there would be a hundred propositions from the locals.

The fly probably would draw more attention in N.Y.
Rachel Martin said, about 1 year ago

I caught Edda and Seth, but missed Thorax until someone pointed him out.
Someone in my little town would notice a naked man with a fly covering his “nasty”(loved that).
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Ummm … sir …your fly is open …
Homeworker said, about 1 year ago

If anyone knows of a strip that attracts more comments than Pib, please let me know - I would want to read it.
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Ah hah!

Thorax is not seen in the original sketch!

Doubtlessly he was added just before publication, at the urging of countless commentators!

:-)
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Homeworker, and anyone else interested in finding comics with lots of comments –

Might I suggest you just check each comic, one at a time, until you find something? Then report back here with your results!

gocomics.com doesn’t publish every online comic, but they do have quite a lot.
sylerner said, about 1 year ago

I pity anyone approaching him from behind - alas, he only has one fly to protect his modesty. ;-)
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Yah, too bad it’s not in San Francisco!
gbrucewilson said, about 1 year ago

I’ve only been reading this strip for about a year. Who is Edda and Seth?
RipFord said, about 1 year ago

I remember a college psychology class in which we watched a film of an experiment where they had Uschi Digard walk naked down a busy city street to see how people would react and the vast majority of people seemed totally oblivious to the presence of a beautiful naked woman. Too much information overload from everything else that was going on around them at the time.
RipFord said, about 1 year ago

Edda and Seth are from Brooke’s other comic, 9 Chickweed Lane.
Nugget0 said, about 1 year ago

gbruce: Brooke has another marvelous comic that I follow called 9 Chickweed Lane. Seth, Edda and Thorax are featured. They are marvelously rich characters who also joined Pib and Dru for the Midsummer Night’s Dream. Visit Brooke’s blog for a link to 9 Chickweed Lane (see under MORE on the right of your screen)

I love both comics and found Pibgorn because of my fanatic following of 9 Chickweed Lane…..

BTW, Thorax may have inserted himself into the strip after Brooke drew it. He has that space time continuum thing going for him and he did recently meet with Monty at 9 Chickweed Lane.
corwin_argentus said, about 1 year ago

May Monty be praised. Or at least left alone on the weekends (he doesn’t like to take his work home with him).

I wondered how long it would be ‘til someone caught that Goeffrey had a fly in the appropriate location, whether it was open or closed. Brooke just kind of innocently slipped that very bad pun out there visually, and this is the first sideways notice I’ve seen of that groaner.

Hee. Fly.
kcboomer said, about 1 year ago

Isn’t that Edna in front of Edda??
valerie.kisling said, about 1 year ago

Trail_Blazer - Thanks for pointing out Thorax! As per usual, I was too busy gazing at Seth.

Ah Seth! … sigh.
GorgoloChick said, about 1 year ago

“corwin_argentus says:
I wondered how long it would be ‘til someone caught that Goeffrey had a fly in the appropriate location, whether it was open or closed. Brooke just kind of innocently slipped that very bad pun out there visually, and this is the first sideways notice I’ve seen of that groaner.”

Actually, we’ve given it a lot of play. Also, Brooke clued us in to another strip he did very early in his career, ‘Wahoo Terminal’ in which even more fun was had with the fly - two guys had them up around necktie area and one had his placed as Geoff’s is (although he was clothed). The other two told him his fly was down.

I tend to agree that Thorax decided to show up all on his own. I’m not at all sure Brooke has any control over him.
Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

Welcome back, Geoff and Luciano. I wondered where you would go now that it’s almost time to harvest the crop.
Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

Sylerner, but he has such cute chubs… at least, for an organist.
maeverin said, about 1 year ago

yay for cameos!!
ps–Edda’s expression in the second panel of today’s “9 Chickweed” is GOLDEN!!
elfinelvin said, about 1 year ago

If I were walking down that street I’d probably notice the colors Edda is wearing first. I love to see folks using color like that. THEN I would follow Thorax.
GorgoloChick said, about 1 year ago

Maeverin - Yeah, talk about ‘if looks could kill’!
michaelw777 said, about 1 year ago

I’m always intrigued when Brooke does these crossover cameos. Of course, Thorax figured pretty heavily in a storyline sometime back. Which reminds me. I miss the hair fairy. And for those following his 9 Chickweed Lane series (highly recommended!)—she seldom gets zinged like she got zinged today!
elfinelvin said, about 1 year ago

They will never get Edda off the piano after this!
pibfan868 said, about 1 year ago

I joined gocomics just to be able to post with you guys here. I love both of these strips, Pibgorn and 9 Chickweed Lane. Totally fascinating how characters meander at times across story lines, or boldly charge for that matter :D We are some LUCKY people!
txmystic said, about 1 year ago

I can imagine Thorax was pittering around his shed when Brooke did the sketch, and teleported into the final strip when he tripped over the quantum anomaly. But how did Geoff and Luciano get from the field into the city so fast?
zorchon said, about 1 year ago

Nugget0: fanatic following of 9 Chickweed Lane…

Don’t I know it! I’m in the same boat here, still trying to figgure out of Brooke himself was once a dancer (who else has such obsession with stretched feet and classical lines?) And those quantum annomalies sure can come in handy…
I just don’t know what to do, because I missed a few days of 9 CWL over my summer. Do you think anyone else hoards the pictures in their harddrives as I do?
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Now I wonder just where Geoff is heading off to.

Does he live nearby? How’s he going to get in if the door is locked?

Is he expecting to meander into a nearby men’s clothing store, try on a few things, then when it comes down to buying, claim, “Uh, I must’ve left my wallet in my other pants …”
Bill Meahan said, about 1 year ago

Brooke was and is a classical musician, symphony violist and former music critic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_mceldowney
zorchon said, about 1 year ago

Yes, I’ve read that… but he seems to know WAY to much about dancing… (I’m a ballet dancer myself, and have never met anyone outside the profession who draws ballet … so RIGHT. With all the little technical details correct.)
zorchon said, about 1 year ago

UncaAlby says:
–to meander into a nearby men’s clothing store…

he’d be fine then! Put something on, walk out! “I wore this when I came in sir! Do you think I came in here Naked?”
Kyuzio said, about 1 year ago

I was also going to mention that it looks like Juliette just in front of Edda. Not only that, but isn’t that Amos (looking downward) just to the left of Geoff?

I love Pibgorn and 9CWL! The characters are fascinating, intelligent, witty, and slightly strange! Ok, in Thorax’s case, more than slightly strange….
elfinelvin said, about 1 year ago

Those of you who would like to learn more about Mr.M. should use the link to his blog above right. There’s alot of information in the archives.
corwin_argentus said, about 1 year ago

Hi GogoloChick -
Yes, I love Wahoo Terminal (and particularly chuckled at those particular panels - I’ve been a Chickweed/Pibgorn/Brooke fan quite some time, and literally have the coffee cup and the tea shirt (and both books).

I only recently joined and started commenting here, though I’ve read this whole story line with rapt attention. So it makes sense I missed when folks were talking about Luciano’s living interpretation of a barn door.

Brooke is a funny man.

RipFord, I love that you know from Uschi Digard. She is a classic!
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Emlyn says:

“I think the opening encounter was in Central Park, NYC. You could see the surrounding highrise buildings in the background when Pib got transmuted”

Geoff was swimming unobserved in a pond/lake in Central Park?

And that high grain he was crouching among when Luciano found him doesn’t seem likely to be in the park, either.
The Old Wolf said, about 1 year ago

@zorchon: Brooke has mentioned in his history that while studying at Julliard, he spent a lot of his free time drawing the ballet dancers. He obviously learned a lot about the art as well, not just how to draw a perfect form.

Oh, snap. Edda really got stung today…
Iphelia said, about 1 year ago

the gentlemen in the grey green suit wears a high-waisted pant. Nice to see somebody else do it once in awhile. I’m not alone. I’m not alone.
GorgoloChick said, about 1 year ago

As huge an attraction as Brooke and his artistry and wit are, I think many of the commenters are also attracted by the people who comment here. Snowball effect. Brilliant work, followed by fascinating and intelligent conversation is just plain irresistable.
thranx1 said, about 1 year ago

Corwin & RipFord;
Six degrees of separation…
Uschi Digard is an old friend. A terrific chess player, but ballet is not her forte.
GorgoloChick said, about 1 year ago

Say, guys. I just went and took a look, and at the start there aren’t buildings around the pond where Geoff is going in to swim, that’s the pixilation that gets Pib a few strips later. Anyway, she carried him waaaaaay up in the air after she grabbed him, so he could have ended up anywhere after she disappeared and Dru rescued him, if not his swim trunks.
elfinelvin said, about 1 year ago

Oh Dru got the swim trunks alright.
GorgoloChick said, about 1 year ago

elfinelvin - Actually, Dru caught the falling Geoff by his swim trunks, and when he fell out of them she tossed them aside, saying “Oh, it just doesn’t get better than this” while looking offscreen at Geoff.
GorgoloChick said, about 1 year ago

The Friday sillies are upon me. Is that spired building in the top right corner of the last frame the same building, I wonder, that Dru excited after she felt the burst of pure evil from Lena?
ABiggie said, about 1 year ago

Is it possible that Lena and the evil queen are in the same situation as Dru and Pib (sharing a body)? I was wondering that this morning, because otherwise, it is just creepy for an 8-year-old to be doing those things.
WickedCrazy said, about 1 year ago

Doesn’t Geoff live in the country?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 year ago

how long does a giant bluebottle live? Most flies live less than a week. Luciano’s magic must keep him going.
The Old Wolf said, about 1 year ago

ABiggie wrote: I was wondering that this morning, because otherwise, it is just creepy for an 8-year-old to be doing those things.

You’re right - it is creepy, which a number of us have mentioned before. While Scott Adams of Dilbert fame often tries to be crude on purpose, just to see what he can slip past his editors, Brooke seems motivated by nothing other than the exigencies of his story. Still, he does seem to push the envelope pretty hard.

My experience of him is that he’s a good man with a wild, untamed and brilliantly creative mind. From statements made through his characters to comments posted on his blog, he seems to care deeply about the state of the world. My guess is that he would be the last one to condone child abuse in any form. As a result, I anticipate that the dénouement of this strip will leave Lena unscarred. Notice, for example, how Drusilla was prepared to give Roger the ride of his young life, but the plot cleverly preserved his virtue and even explained why.

And yes, I agree with the above comment regarding the discussions here. Certainly a light-year ahead of the typical forum where “OMG ROFL this strip r0xx0rs111” and “STFU n00b” are about all you see…