Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for November 06, 2011
November 05, 2011
November 07, 2011
Transcript:
Petey: I'm doing a diorama on lunar phases for school. Tonight the moon is waxing gibbous! Alice: Like a monkey? Petey: No, the moon - Alice: A gibbous is a kind of monkey. Petey: No, it's - Dill: The zoo has one at the monkey house. Petey: No. Alice: But why is it waxing? Petey: Agh. Dill: Maybe it's pushing a floor polisher. Alice: The moon is a monkey pushing a floor polisher. Alice: Makes sense to me! Dill: I'll stick with my theory that the moons' a galactic repository for used chewing gum.
margueritem over 12 years ago
I like Dill’s theory.
Catfeet Premium Member over 12 years ago
Whatever happened to the green cheese theory?
pouncingtiger over 12 years ago
I feel your pain, Petey.
Ida No over 12 years ago
Wax gum.
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
Sigh! Is this what astronomy has come to among preschoolers? Still, it is nice to see the awe of discovery (even if a false discovery) on Alice’s face (panel 5).
Bittermelon of Truth over 12 years ago
“Gibbous” means a moon that’s more than half but less than a full moon.
Ida No over 12 years ago
The moon isn’t made out of anything. It’s just an illusion, It’s all in your mind. There is no moon.
GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago
Where does Dill come up with this stuff?
rolleg over 12 years ago
Oh, Dill, you’re so right!
Auntie Socialist over 12 years ago
Are you kidding? With all that hair, of course the Gibbous is waxing!
comics4brown over 12 years ago
And to think I’ve had it wrong all these years…
cleokaya over 12 years ago
Don’t you all know that the moon is a big round of Swiss cheese?
cleokaya over 12 years ago
So when a moon is waxing it just means that I am stripping off the wax rind to cut a slice and advance the cycle through, first to a half moon and then onward.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 12 years ago
All that aside, the artwork today is STUNNING, Richard!
fritzoid Premium Member over 12 years ago
Gibbous this day our daily cheese.
Elaine Rosco Premium Member over 12 years ago
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie…that’s amorie….lol
rgcviper over 12 years ago
HA—this one made me laugh out loud!
jeditrue over 12 years ago
IT is beautiful. I hope you post the Black and White art on your blog. Its wonderful!
lin4869 over 12 years ago
Excellent!
Randyt8 over 12 years ago
Gibbous waxes and wanes all the time, but, he takes his sweet time to do it.
Miserichord over 12 years ago
A green Cheese is one that is still aging.It starts out white.
trekkermint over 12 years ago
wonderful surrealistic definition
vldazzle over 12 years ago
All the kids are using their imaginations in Richard’s mind and with his artwork – always great!
vldazzle over 12 years ago
(giggle) and monkey houses smell so vile that none of us females care to venture in there. The only thing worse was a school trip to the stockyards where we watched pigs slaughtered!
robert423elliott over 1 year ago
A 9yo walks off and leaves two 4 year old kids out in the dark?