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Jimmy Johnson’s Arlo and Janis turns 25

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July 27, 2010

This Thursday, Jimmy Johnson’s Arlo and Janis will celebrate 25 in syndication.

From E&P:

“I really wanted to do a comic strip about a society of talking dogs, called ‘Baskerville,’ but talking-animal strips were out of favor with newspaper editors at the time, and young families were all the rage,” Johnson wrote on his site Monday. “Most of the family-oriented strips targeted at the baby boomlet of the 80s are gone now, and most of the mega-strips launched since then have involved talking animals, but I’m not complaining. Incidentally, a lot of us are again talking of moving to the country and growing much of what we need.”

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#1 Phil Judd
July/27/2010
@ 1:48 pm

Congratulations to Jimmy. I have only dicovered the strip in the past couple of years and read it every day and really enjoy. Such a long time is a big achievement in this industry so well done and may there be many more.

Love to have seen some samples of the talking dog strip…Phil
#2 Dee Weaver
May/18/2011
@ 8:49 pm

I wanted to show my siblings teh strip where Arlo & Janis are at a party and the people there look really weird and she says to him,”You are the best looking man here!”
I am the oldest in our family and we are all retired and when I fret about not looking great (like 50 years ago!) they usually say,”Oh, you’ll be the best looking one there.” Which reminds me of that cartoon!

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