Art holds a mirror up to Nature. The Buckets come along, turn the mirror on Art and say, “Look how goofy you’re acting. Now get to work, Art. Your kids need an Xbox 360.”
The Buckets comic strip isn’t a parody of family life. Parodies are filled with hearts and rainbows or enraged tirades and dramatic confrontation. The Buckets, though? Nope. Real life, baby. It’s funny because it’s on a page and not in your house at the moment. Next week, when it’s happening to you, you’ll thank us for reminding you that it’s supposed to be funny.
Greg Cravens looks in the mirror and see not himself, but all of us. And then he draws up the silly, grand, goofy, thrilling, utterly human things we do and calls it The Buckets.
© Greg Cravens - All Rights Reserved.
Broom Hilda by Russell Myers
Buni by Ryan Pagelow
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ODDBALL
said, 6 months ago
And yes. These are the same kids that didn’t want to go to bed last night. Now they don’t want to get up.
Happens every day.
unnormal said, 6 months ago
A refreshing approach . . . unappreciated, nonetheless.
Agent54 said, 6 months ago
Larry – roll the mind clock back about 30 years and ask yourself, is it even worth the attempt?
listmom said, 6 months ago
This is the reaction I get every morning when I go to get my son (15) up. He has actually requested I don’t say “It’s wakey-wakey time” any more. sigh
Doctor Toon said, 6 months ago
@listmom
I loved coming up with new and creative ways to annoy my son awake when he was in school
The singing and dancing cat was particularly effective, but it annoyed the cat too much to do it very often
Gary Albert said, 6 months ago
my little brother would wait 5 mins before bus arrived.
david_42 said, 6 months ago
@ODDBALL
Evolutionary pressures resulted in teenagers who can stay up all night guarding the clan. Or Twinkies, these days.
pair8head said, 6 months ago
@Gary Albert
My dad would have cured him of that by using the old glass of water trick. He did that on all three of my older sisters.
Allan said, 6 months ago
Nerf Gun filled with cold water.
whmIII said, 6 months ago
@Allan
Try a bucket…it works
Number Three said, 6 months ago
That’s me…
Although my parents never had any trouble getting me up for school.
But they MIGHT have on a weekend.
LOL xxx
Comic Minister said, 6 months ago
Just like your shirt Larry.
James Maxwell said, 6 months ago
Back in the stone age when I was a kid I had a pet raccoon. In the morning mom or dad would open the cage and he would come to my room, jump on the bed and go straight for the toes. You came out of bed very quickly.
Neo Blakkrstal said, 6 months ago
@ODDBALL
My kids too. It amazes me, when I was a kid I couldn’t wait to get up and get outside, especially on weekends. My kids just want to lay around like lumps. But then, I didn’t have video gams, computers, ipods, and cell phones. We had 4 tv channels, and cartoons were only about an hour a day after school and a few hours on Saturday mornings.
Linda Dean
said, 6 months ago
@Doctor Toon
The singing and dancing cat was particularly effective, but it annoyed the cat too much to do it very often
roflmaooooooooo