Jolly Green Synchronicity
Cidu Bill on Feb 10th 2010
Peter Lepine: I produce the comic 2cups over on comics Sherpa and I had to laugh when I read today’s Argyle sweater. Also a little envious as his Green Giant looks cleaner then mine.
Filed in 2Cups, Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, Jolly Green Giant, Scott Hilburn, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 9 responses so far
Soup Dragon Feb 10th 2010 at 06:04 pm 1
Why would the Jolly Green Giant have a corn cob as a foot? Or is it the cob that has sprouted a JGG?
Elyrest Feb 10th 2010 at 06:32 pm 2
Soup Dragon - Jolly has corns - Corns are small, painful areas of hard skin which can form on your foot. A play on words.
Mark in Boston Feb 10th 2010 at 06:49 pm 3
Well, at least there’s no joke about him going into the pea patch to take a pea.
mkilby Feb 10th 2010 at 07:36 pm 4
@ Soup Dragon (1) - He’s simply got an incredibly bad case of “corns” on the sole of his foot.
P.S. I remember seeing a monument to Pythagoras on the island of Samos (Greece); the inscription lauded him as a man of “PEASE”. Unfortunately, googling doesn’t produce any pictures clear enough to make the text legible (and they may have corrected the misspelling since then).
mkilby Feb 10th 2010 at 07:46 pm 5
Ooops. That browser tab turned out to be an hour old. I should remember to reload the page before posting.
chuckers Feb 11th 2010 at 04:23 am 6
My initial thought for the 2nd one was that he had a bad case of “planter’s wart.” Corns didn’t hit me until several minutes later. I have been a bit slow of late.
Clay Feb 11th 2010 at 09:11 am 7
Today’s (2/11/2010) The Argyle Sweater daily calendar also has a Green Giant reference.
Mateus Feb 11th 2010 at 02:18 pm 8
Is it just me, or do cartoon characters have a slight tendency to read their books “Japanese style;” ie: what Americans would consider back-to-front?
I’m just saying that I see this a lot, and it can’t be that hard to draw a person in profile facing west….
chuckers Feb 12th 2010 at 04:40 am 9
It probably has to do with the way the eye flows over the comic. For English lang based comics, you are going to naturally look from left to right.
The artist most likely wants you to focus on The Jolly Green Giant first and then get to the punchline of “War and Peas.”
If done with a west facing profile, you would focus on the book first and then see TJGG. Doesn’t quite flow the same way.
But good catch on noticing the title of the book is on the “back.”