Veteran’s Day
Cidu Bill on Nov 11th 2008
- How to tell a complete and perfect story in six days (assuming this comics.com link works properly at all, read the sequence from the bottom up)
Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Jimmy Johnson, Veteran's Day, comic strips, comics, war | 12 responses so far
Austin Nov 11th 2008 at 04:17 pm 1
Your link didn’t work, but I made this one that seems to work for me:
http://bit.ly/3Dav
Frank Nov 11th 2008 at 05:11 pm 2
They should run this every year.
Marine Brat Nov 11th 2008 at 05:50 pm 3
I vote Jimmy Johnson a week’s exemption from being picked on.
Cedar Nov 11th 2008 at 06:34 pm 4
This is great–the detail work is incredible. I especially like the face of the German soldier, and the way it’s repeated.
I also like the cat in his dad’s lap.
Kit Nov 11th 2008 at 10:53 pm 5
/salute, to all who’ve served. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat Nov 11th 2008 at 11:56 pm 6
Comic strip artistry at its finest. Jimmy Johnson’s skills are vastly under appreciated.
Ooten Aboot Nov 12th 2008 at 06:54 am 7
The flashback scenes, especially the fourth panel on November 11 and the first on the 12th are, I think, a kind of homage to Bill Mauldin’s Up Front with Willy and Joe.
Powers Nov 12th 2008 at 07:56 am 8
A nice sequence, though I don’t think I’d call it “perfect”.
Trish Nov 12th 2008 at 09:35 am 9
“You can’t begin to imagine the people who aren’t here.”
That sentence in context gave me a chill. Very well done Veteran’s Day tribute.
The Ploughman Nov 12th 2008 at 12:03 pm 10
I wish my paper ran “Arlo and Janis.” That sequence makes the Beetle Bailey printed here all the more regrettable.
Lost in A**2 Nov 16th 2008 at 02:53 pm 11
For another on the theme, check out User Friendly
for the week starting on Nov 10:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20081115
Lost in A**2 Nov 17th 2008 at 10:12 am 12
Oops. That’s the last in the series. The first is at
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20081110