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Shaenon: I really just wanted to draw Robin.
In other news, the Skin Horse 6 Kickstarter has passed 300 backers! There are less than two weeks to go, so be sure to have a look.
Channing: I’m always so pleased to see “myself” in these strips. He looks like such an enormous dork. Obviously this is a fantasy, of course, since in reality I am super-cool and suave and basically the best.
Also, Cartoon Robin is killing me. I wonder at what age you earn actual word balloons?
Shaenon: Making you look as cool as you are in real life, Jeff, is well beyond my limited artistic ability.
Best Sunday comic ever.
Yes, we learned how Shaenon is handling her offspring, why she doesn’t include the neighbors, and how locations are kept consistent. Thanks for the follow-up question, Jeff.
Not to forget having Artie live with her, too. Hope he changes diapers.
I didn’t realise he wore them.
I am an alumnus of the Malcolm X elementary.
You should read Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” to Robin and see which bits he parrots.
To be fair, fezzes ARE cool.
So is macaroni.
Also bowties 😀
Is he really that talkative already?
And bonus points for “passersby”
Malcolm X is such a weird figure to name a school after.
On the one hand, he was a violent black nationalist who advocated armed revolt and racial hatred and divisions. On the other hand, he ultimately abandoned and rejected those values.
Then back on the one hand, he wasn’t a teacher nor had anything much to do with education. But once again on the other hand, it could be argued that the tragedies of his life are the perfect examples of why education is so crucial.
Had he not as a young man been discouraged from studying to become a lawyer, how different might his life have been? Had he known in advance or been able to readily learn that the Nation of Islam was in fact not representative of the Muslim faith at large, how much earlier might he have turned to embrace a philosophy of promoting cooexistence rather than one of promoting strife? How different might history be if he had been granted the benefits of a proper education at every step of his life?
I suppose he’s a better namesake by far than plenty of others, at least.
This is Berkeley. That did it because they could. (It was Lincoln when my sister went there but they changed it in 1971.
Naked Screaming should be a punk band.
I did a search, and there is one called “Screaming Naked”, so you can still use it.
Robin is freaking adorable. Be sure to teach him to growl before he goes off to daycare! That makes for the BEST worried phonecalls!
Only in Berkley…at least I hope so.
Robin sure seems to be into macaroni. Someone put a feather in his hat?
His fez?
I wonder if Archie McPhee still does Fez-and-Pez combo packs?
Shaenon, that is a cute young ‘un, and I’m certain you are proud of him!
So living in Berkeley is something like living in the Gremlins movies?
To answer Jeff’s question, you don’t earn word balloons at a specific age. You get freed from the balloon when you’re providing low level background noises and color. 🙂 Especially about fezzes 🙂
Fezz are cool.
Bow ties are cool too ..
and aslo, Skin-Horse are cool
C’mon guys! You know very well that the naked, screaming street population in Berkeley is not THAT big of a distraction. It’s more like ambient background music.
Or the ocean.
Soooo cuuuuute!!!!
Robin doesn’t seem to have fond memories of that elementary school 😀
Naked people running around town? Shaenon, I thought you lived in Berkeley, not Fremont?
(For those of you outside Seattle, google “Freemont Solstice Parade” and you’ll see what I mean…)
Seeing this comic makes me look forward to when my little boy can start walking and saying things. <3