Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 19, 2009

… or are the characters just grown out of the series :-(

These “cut-backs” are getting — (see next panel)…

out of hand!

First a week of “glad it’s August” strips, now a week of this non-sense. Does Jan Eliot have writer’s block???

Make ‘em smaller. We can use ctrl and + to make them larger. tee hee

Well you have to admit it’s an original idea. I haven’t seen this kind of story in comics before.

Is that sarcasm I smell, Macushlalondra?

If the comics get too small, there won’t be any room for product placement!

they got Doonesbury so small in the sunday strip you really did need a magnifying glass to read it….thank heavens for here!

wait a minute - I’m getting lost here. Does Joan mean that she or that Val will henceforth disappear from the strip?

@Bob give her a break. She is making a statement isn’t that what the strips are for?

I rather like what’s shes been doing…

No Bob, this is what is called “art imitating reality”. Take this avatar I’m in. If Go Comics could afford more money, you would see a full picture of me (For which I’m laying on my tummy with my left beautiful leg folded back, and the heel of my shoe almost touching my fanny)!

I can’t afford too much. I work pt and having to save slowly to get a car fixed. Our computer needs replaced but can’t do that so have to do a virus check. A lot of places knows about cutbacks. A local aircraft company 2 executives resigned from their positions and another took 10% pay cut. What interesting though the comments that come through is sometimes more interesting.

Bill Watterson once did a strip where Calvin was relating his grandfather’s complaint that comic strips had gotten so small that there’s no room for any good art anymore, just heads underneath dialogue balloons. That strip was rendered, as you might imagine, simply as heads underneath dialogue balloons.

Well, maybe this will help Val….

@Mama and Tink: I don’t mind a joke like this (nor does Bob, I suspect); I don’t think it’s a strong enough joke to stretch across a whole week, though. Come to think of it, I don’t think most fourth-wall-breaking ideas are good for a whole week.