Tip and Alice by Ed Gedeon
Shaenon: A few weeks ago, Ed Gedeon had a dream about Tip commiserating with another Alice: Alice the Goon from E.C. Segar’s Popeye. Now Ed has drawn a dramatic visual recreation of that dream. Thanks, Ed!
Channing: Tip is so good at his job, isn’t he? I always love it when something I’m doing makes its way into people’s dreams, because it means they’re really thinking about the stuff I wrote. Of course, was there ever any doubt with Ed? The answer is no. There was never any doubt.
Awww, she can do better than that loser Bluto… why does she put up with his dumb, hairy arse?
mnem
Tip, I’mma jack your red heels; I owe someone a pole dance. 😉
Uh, you’re not thinking of Olive Oyl, are you?…
Nope… in the Popeye Universe I grew up with, offscreen Alice the Goon was with Bluto and she always wondered why. Bluto, of course, still chased anything with a skirt.
mnem
Watch out, Tip. Bluto’s coming.
aww! this is awesome, i wish i had dreams like this
(TUNE: “White Rabbit”, Jefferson Airplane)
Sometimes, life is faster
And sometimes, life is slow,
People come to Project Skin Horse
When they don’t know where to go …
Talk to Alice
When she’s feeling low.
So they head out to the tavern
And they’re chatting over drinks,
And she opens up to Tip now,
‘Cause he’s not like other shrinks!
Poor, poor Alice …
Her love life stinks!
For she tried some online dating,
But it didn’t go as planned!
Well, her date just up and ditched her!
Tip, he seems to understand …
Talk to Alice,
And hold her hand!
When the charcters from comics
Start to take things to extremes,
Is a Segar just a Segar?
Is this more than it just seems?
Then you wake up
From these shocking dreams!
Hear the screams!
Hear the screams!
*Another* Alice? Who was the first Alice?
I’m sorry, but this just has to be done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcVLeUFW-AM
(Incidentally, for reasons of decency, that’s NOT the version featuring Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown)
Now, see, Skin Horse makes you smarter. If not for this comment, I would never have Wikid and YouTubed Roy “Chubby” Brown, and my life would have been the poorer for it. Dude’s funny, and fascinating in a throwbacky kind of way.
Meet the first Alice — a true friend to Tip.
http://skin-horse.com/2009/much-with-his-smarts/
See also:
http://skin-horse.com/images/shbio_tip.jpg
http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alicepic/through-the-looking-glass/2book13.jpg
Heh. “… and I had to do it backwards in high heels!” which was, in it’s own right, a nod to Ginger Rogers.
mnem
“Like I’ve never been handcuffed to a bed before.”
Wow, pretty obscure. I like it. Just don’t tell me that Tip beds her. *shudder*
Whoa! No longer on GMT! Nor even eastern time you were before nor even Central that you were before that. Shoot. There goes my habit of reading before bed on the west coast.
aww, man this sucks! i used to read this before school in the mornings, but now it won’t update til ten for me 🙁
Why am I now having visions of Tip having a long heart-to-heart with Cousin Itt and Gossamer?
(And why do I get the feeling that someone may draw fanart of that now that I’ve mentioned it?)