Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 7 months ago

If you would like to ‘favorite’ the strip, (and maybe the sketch, too), simply log in and click on the ‘Favorite’ star directly above the strip. Mr. McEldowney very kindly asked for us what purpose is served by favoriting, and this was the answer:
I asked my editor at Gocomics about the purpose of “favoriting” a strip. Her answer was this: “‘Favoriting’ allows people following you to see what comics you like. ‘Favorited’ comics also show up under your profile, and allow us to see what comics people are enjoying.”
Basically, I think it provides a method for spreading the word.
Brooke

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Margueritem said, 7 months ago

” I stared deep into her blouse.”

Hilarious hijinks once again. Pib was definitely sharing Dru’s mind.
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Flying shoes, eh?
debra4life50 said, 7 months ago

Pib is MOST DEFINITELY over giving Geoff up.

OR - Is doing Nat a rebound kind of thing?
WoodGracie said, 7 months ago

Yay it’s up! yowza! I think that I might have to censor this one from the kids!! too much to explain!! LOL
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

Geez, Louise! He knocked her shoes off (never mind what else)!
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

…without enrolling at Berlitz

Language humor!

When this book is published, it’s going to be rated Holy Flapping Scrith!
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

margueritem says:

”’I looked deep into her blouse.’

“Hilarious hijinks once again. Pib was definitely sharing Dru’s mind.”

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2004/pib041215.gif

I like Nat’s tie im Panel 1 … and Panel 3.

EDIT: … and i like Pib’s hair short that way.

While Pib’s long wavy/curly/beautifully unkempt hair has always been nice to look at, ahving it shor this wat adds another distinction between Pib and Dru.

Which may be necessary as Pib seems to be acting more like Dru…
WoodGracie said, 7 months ago

By Nat’s look yesterday I can’t imagine he’d be able to keep up! (pun intended ;} ) And I really don’t want to know what his breath will be like after all those ciggies! blecch!
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

A cynical pastime, to be sure: the plot advances infinitesimally, while the audience enjoys its popcorn [crossover reference]. I think a comic any more explicit would not be on a PG13-or-better website!
The humor is heavy and hot, what is called “adult,” though the term always amuses me. I think this is great fun, though perhaps some would blush! Pibby certainly has learned pretty much all about Dru’s business, it seems.
WoodGracie said, 7 months ago

Gracie sez: “good nite!”
WoodGracie said, 7 months ago

Gweedo- next time be sure to take out the batteries from the smoke alarms!! or you may have a rude awakening from your reverie!!
fatuncle said, 7 months ago

LOL, again

Hey, wait …Geoff is missing as well?
ejcapulet said, 7 months ago

OY!
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

9CL: “Popcorn?”

Something seems to have gone wonkity tonight: I don’t have Stone Soup, and instead of La Cucaracha i have Zits and i have Krazy Kat instead of The New Adventures of Queen Victoria…
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

VEY!
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

fatuncle says:

“Hey, wait …Geoff is missing as well?”

Yup.

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2009/pib090324.gif
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

fairportfan, maybe your computer’s got the April 1 foolishness going on; I just went through my selected comics with nothing out of place.
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

ES MIR!
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

*Sisyphos says:

“fairportfan, maybe your computer’s got the April 1 foolishness going on; I just went through my selected comics with nothing out of place.”

Do you read La Cucaracha or TNAoQV?
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Hmmm. Nat’s eyes are teal, too.
3Xp4t said, 7 months ago

Nat’s tie, dangling limp over the frame between panel #1 & #3 … snort

Didn’t just hang there all limp and looking pretty for very long.

And, I have to agree … it does seem that Pib is acting much more like Dru this week. I was sorta holding my opinion before, imagining that Pib was just role-playing (in extreme). Her commentary in panel #1 is quite un-Pib. Her look in panel #3 is the only one so far that looks like Pib. More or less everything else so far she has had a look on her face with Dru’s eye. And there’s been so much more of Pib …
Margueritem said, 7 months ago

fairportfan: I love Dru in that blue dress. “look deep into my legs…”.
CoBass said, 7 months ago

@fearciuil If using the phone nearly gives you a panic attack, why not drop him a card or letter? The directory listing gives his home address. As I said, I’m sure he’d be interesting in knowing what one of his former student teachers is up to these days.

I commented yesterday about my problems bringing up Pibgorn and the sketch. Go figure - tonight I have no problems with that at all…
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Sequential Art: Scarlet is getting devious…
http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=525
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Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

fairportfan, I don’t read La Cucaracha at all, and only now and then …Queen Victoria, but I checked out the links: Krazy Kat in place of QueenV seems clearly an April Fool’s gag; as for the other, I don’t recognize the comic, but it does carry the trademark of Lalo Alcaraz, who is the author of La Cucaracha….
ThatCat said, 7 months ago

For half a second, in panel 3, I thought she was going into the Pib we know mode, but then I caught a glimpse of the shoe flying up in the last panel and all confusion was gone.

Yep, there is very possibly something wrong, but I am totally seduced into ignoring it.
TheSkulker said, 7 months ago

KalahariNight Do you do any cross stitching or knitting!

2322 PDT [0622z 04-01]
Story Teller said, 7 months ago

ccdesanPro says: “Like you said, De Blunderbuss non discutandum sit or something like that…”

He didn’t sit on his blunderbuss…? Well, I should hope not! =)

(That’s as close as the translator I had could get. What was that really good translator of Latin…?)
allyheartz said, 7 months ago

Nat, I’m sure you’re not complaining about the “funny way she tells you”. I wonder when these two will get to the point…
Story Teller said, 7 months ago

ccdesanPro says: “@jcordaro64: There’s something funny going on with that black hole link. The one you provided is dead, but by reverse-hacking the URL I got to the main page, which looks terribly cool. All the other links gave me “403 Forbidden”, and now everything on that particular site is “404”. It’s either under construction, or just barely got deleted, or something.”

Could be worse. You might have gotten a 449 error: “This site really blows goats!” =)
Story Teller said, 7 months ago

arkaine says: “De-lurking for a moment to thank wildflowerose for all the effort on the survey. standing ovation”

Here! Here!
baslim_the_begger said, 7 months ago

And here she was trying to keep him abreast of the news…

back to the navel maneuvers…
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

@StoryTeller: That was macaronics, pure and simple. De gustibus non disputandum est is the standard Latin, and I ran it through my Nonsensificator 3000™. Using the Perfect Subjunctive, what comes out is “The blunderbuss has not been discussed.” Sheer silliness for April 1…

[EDIT:] Your ‘449’ error is being archived… I’ve got to use that one somewhere or other. Very funny…
desertdwlr said, 7 months ago

jeeze loueeze a boink-a-thon
Buggerit said, 7 months ago

I just realised - Pib is wearing a similar outfit to the one she wore as “Puck” in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, although she has swapped the hat for a beret and changed into fishnets.
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 7 months ago

O_O
katisha said, 7 months ago

fairportfan said:
“In 1992, only weeks before Fairport Convention’s annual Cropredy Festival (the second and, so far, last i attended), Fairort’s fiddler, Ric Sanders, put his hand through a plate-glass window {http://electronictiger.net/cropredy/ric.htm}. Multi-instrumentalist Chris Leslie filled in on incredibly short notice (luckily, Chris had fiddled with Fairport fror a whie in the latter ’70s after Dave Swarbrick left the band, so he already basically knew a lot of the repertoire).[…]I can (barely) imagine what a terror of hand injuries musicians must feel.”

My first husband was a blues guitarist. Apparently the terror didn’t affect him, but I was horrified when, some little while after we (amicably) split up, he took off to the wide open spaces to be a cowboy - especially the part where he rode rodeo. Never did smash up his hands, though. Whew. He moved to a different city and took up his axe again and 30 yrs later is still at it:
http://tinyurl.com/dcp5xa
http://tinyurl.com/c7rocf
fear-ciuil said, 7 months ago

@fairportfan, TNAQV site (http://www.newadventuresofqueenvictoria.com/) shows the same strip as GoComics. I think the switcheroo is the cartoonists’ (collective?) Silly Day joke.
Gweedo Murray said, 7 months ago

A big hand for Tim Williams! Clap-clap-clapitty-clap-clap-Phweeet! -WHOOO! -clap-clap.
The first tune exactly reminds me of “Embryonic Journey” off Surrealistic Pillow. A really good shoo.
I see a deer in the headlights on the page. :-)
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Gweedo Murray says:

“A big hand for Tim Williams! Clap-clap-clapitty-clap-clap-Phweeet! -WHOOO! -clap-clap.”

Yup.

(Borrows lighter from person on left and holds it high…)
txmystic said, 7 months ago

Yup, I do think this is partly Pib’s desire to spice up her sex life in addition to, you know, finding…who did she say was missing again?
txmystic said, 7 months ago

Only five more times Nat? C’mon…you’ve gotta have more cigarettes than that…
Phaze58 said, 7 months ago

HOLY KAPHLOOIEEEE
That last panel reminds me of something…But being British I can’t say what .
Hugh B. Hayve said, 7 months ago

So I’m guessing that Geoff and Dru are going to have to get their own help.
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Made myself a new animated avatar - it won’t work here, but go to http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=10437 for a look.
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

txmystic says:

“Yup, I do think this is partly Pib’s desire to spice up her sex life in addition to, you know, finding…who did she say was missing again?”

Uhhh - some guy and his girlfriend.
jaguarundi said, 7 months ago

ThatCat, I love your avatar! I remember being in love with that girl many, many years ago.
DeathDealer said, 7 months ago

Five more times! That’s what I call stamina.