A Caveman Mom is scolding two Cavemen children. There is a giant, swirly turd — the size of a Volkswagen — in the middle of their Caveman living room. The Mom says: “He’s your pet. You clean it up.”
Reader Trish, author of the delightful Trish Tails, reports that I am dead wrong when I theorize that, in an alternate universe, actress/ credit card saleswoman Jennifer Garner would be robbing people at gunpoint and barking “What’s in your wallet?” Trish was briefly Jen Garner’s roommate, when Trish was in high school and La Garner was in summer stock, and Trish says that Jennifer is “sweet, charming, funny, and kind.”
Well, I know that this is true because I read Trish Tails, and one of Trish’s most admirable traits is her honesty. So I side with Trish on this one, and against me. Alternate Universe Garners, you have my apologies.
There is some controversy about “Apple Mary”:
She was created by Martha Orr during the depression. Orr left the strip in the late 30’s, and over the next few years poverty-stricken fruit seller Apple Mary became bourgeois busybody Mary Worth, whose “adventures” you can still read in some daily papers.
Except that King Features, which distributes “Mary Worth,” claims that there’s no relation between the two Marys, and that “Mary Worth” is a wholly original comic that just happened to start at the exact moment “Apple Mary” stopped. I can’t imagine why they would make this claim, unless they’re trying to hold on to the Mary Worth copyright as long as possible, but that’s just stupid. I can’t think of a more worthless piece of Intellectual Property than “Mary Worth” — and I’m a fan.
Cumbeck. Nixt Veek. Oil B. Hare. Mebbe.
And Happy New Year, to those who celebrate.
I'm delightful! 😊 I'm planning to draw the JG comic for you as soon as I have some time. 💜