Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 14, 2020

Still gotta cover the nose cut-out, Arlo.

What’s this? Fourth wall breaking?!

Also, you’re making decorations for a holiday that’s celebrated at the end of next month! Seriously?!!

But now the game is up, you’d better figure out a way to work Masked Santa into the strip immediately!

I’ve never seen a jack-o’-lantern with ears

I read over 200 a day and it’s the first I’ve seen

Call it one for the win column

I believe we have a WINNER!!

How many plague doctors will we get to see this Halloween? Or Hazmat suit people? Any variety that includes full protection really.

what’s the point of making a jack-o’-lantern if half of it is covered with a mask?

How American! A holiday’s a competition!!

You win on this one, Jimmy but you lost by not doing Christmas cartoon right after the 4th of July.

When they make pumpkin pie filling, how do they peel the pumpkins?

A gag is a gag

Writer’s block….

Do cartoon pumpkins rot? That thing’ll never make Halloween.

YOU WIN!

Home depot is selling Halloween stuff NOW… at some point in October they will put out the Christmas stuff. And around Christmas the clothing stores at the mall will start selling bathing suits for summer and the rest of the stores will be getting ready for valentines day….

Goodbye 4th wall!

Is this the first time that Arlo has admitted that he’s living in a comic strip?

Oh, Jimmy. You’re better than this…

In case we don’t live ’till then, get the decorations up now

Need to nail in some jumbo Mr Potatohead ears to secure the mask then.

Now let’s see how much less that Jack-o-lantern will be infected and withstand rotting away

Well I, for one, love it. LOL

People on my street have had decoration up since Sept 1st

Maybe it’ll keep it from rotting. ??

Arlo is obviously out of his gourd.

Niiiice!

Neat! And then you’ll have the first rotted, moldy jack-o-lantern with a really disgusting mask just in time for Halloween!

Booooo

Too bad nobody is gonna see it.

That jack-o-lantern’s going to be soup if it’s on your front porch, Arlo. But wait, we’re talking comic strip time, aren’t we? Never mind, carry on.

Winning!

why not. stores have Halloween candy and decorations. retailers are afraid holiday seasons will be slow because of covid so are starting early.

Salvation Army began their annual christmas panhandle today.

Dang!

Congratulations. I think you won. Food network has started their Halloween cooking wars yesterday.

Instead of costume competitions this year, we can have best mask contests. And they can’t be plastic or rubber – they have to be the best, still COVID-protective design!

I wonder if Lio beat the Days to it?