Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for December 21, 2010

Two words….breast implants

Heh. Bigger draw. Kind of an inside joke, Phil?

She’s not bad. It’s how she’s drawn.

Besides, lots of folks thought Mary Ann was the hot one and Ginger was just slutty. Oh, sorry, wrong comic book figures.

And the wolf seems to have a thing for the wifey types, too.

Jenn Erica needs to take some tips from Power Girl.

I’ve seen Ziggy and Yenny together some nights, after Zack Hill has gone to bed.

The thing you have to remember about Blondie hooking up with Dagwood is that, when they first got together, Dagwood was rich…

I don’t know if I’d call Lois “super hot”, but she’s still a CMILF. She’s had four kids, after all. Besides, I wouldn’t call Hi particularly “schlubby”; they’re well matched, it seems to me. (Of course, if you look at their very first appearance as Beetle Bailey’s sister and brother-in-law, Hi was more a square-jawed, pipe-smoking “young executive” and Lois was a mousy brunette in a housecoat. She got better-looking, and he let himself go (a bit).)

The best example I can think of is Peter and Lois Griffin. That one’s even mind-boggling to the other characters on “Family Guy.”

Eldo, I don’t much care for LuAnn’s mom (I think Connie Duncan is a more attractive example of the “type”, and Walt seems schlubbier than Mr. DeGroot), but while we’re there, what about Brad and Toni? Sure, Dirk was bad news, but in real life she’d be way out of Brad’s league…

I totally agree with you on Calvin’s mom, though. She’d be a hell-cat in the bedroom, too, I’m pretty sure.

With comic strip women, so much depends on the hairstyle. Before LuAnn “Winkerbeaned”, she and her mother had the same (lumpy) hair, and the daughter was just a blonde, freckled clone of the mother. Both changed for the better, but nobody in that strip really appeals to me (Bernice has potential). Connie Duncan’s stylist didn’t do her any favors, I’m sorry to say.

I don’t think ANY cartoon woman benefitted from her new hair more than Thelma Keane. I don’t know if her getting sexy was precisely coeval with being drawn by her son (Jeffy) rather than her husband (Bil), but it was close enough to be a little…creepy.

Speaking of “Brad’s Women”, I’m glad that the thing with the neighbor Diane didn’t go anywhere. She was cute, but the cartoonist had no idea how to write her dialogue. He labored under the misconception that smart people simply use big words where others would use little ones: “The sun being at its zenith, I propose we suspend our endeavors and partake of a sustaining repast” instead of “It’s noon. Let’s break for lunch.”

My GF would find the discussions above very strange. She has never understood how anyone could find a mere cartoon sexy. It’s pretty obviously a male thing. It’s how we are built to assure propogation of the species (assuming nothing goes wrong).

I remember my first such cartoon experience. At about age 13 at a Boy Scout camp I looked at a box of Band-aids with a drawing of a stylish young woman and was overwhelmed with what I didn’t realize at the time was lust. Ah, hormones. I remember them well.

I’ve always liked Blondie myself (except for her too-narrow hips).

What can I say, Eldo? I like straight brown hair and glasses (I admit I don’t care for her perm). To put it pretentiously, “De gustibus non disputandum est” (or, in the vernacular, “There’s no accounting for taste”).

Frankly, I don’t really care for “LuAnn”, and if it weren’t in my daily paper I probably wouldn’t follow it. (If I miss my morning paper, though, I’ll check out “LuAnn” online.)

As to the relative attractions of blondes and brunettes, I can go either way (actually, I’m partial to redheads). In my eyes, the choice between Jenn Erica and Ms. Amazement has little to do with hair color. But if you prefer raven-tressed beauties, by all means I wouldn’t try to convince you to give them up. Given your avatar, though, might I be excused for wondering whether your black-haired ideal also has a long streak of white down her back?

Fritz: The German is “Jeder hat sein Geschmack”.

I know a lot of librarians. They get their freak on when they’re not at work…

By the way, the use of “fair” to mean both “beautiful” and “blonde” goes back at least to the Elizabethans. In the Nunnery Scene of Hamlet, the Prince asks Ophelia “Are you honest? Are you fair?” This can be read in three ways, if not more (and I have no doubt Shakespeare meant ALL of them):

1) “Are you chaste? Are you beautiful?” 2) “Are you truthful and just?” 3) “Are you really a blonde?”

Well, maybe Will didn’t quite have that last one in mind, but given the rest of Hamlet’s interactions with Ophelia, it wouldn’t surprise me to hear him accuse her of “art.”

”I have heard of your bleachings, too, well enough! God hath given you one hair colour, and you make yourselves another!”