Happy Mother's Day!
Mother's Day is a red-letter day for the comics, and today was no exception. However, I am shocked, and more than a little saddened, to report that in my paper there was nary a burnt piece of toast. No destroyed kitchen, dripping with the gloppy leftovers of a young child's pancake experiment gone awry. In short, no ruined breakfast in bed, which is a staple of the Mother's Day humor genre. What is the world coming to? It would be like a Father's Day funny page with no heinously ugly ties.
Does that mean that there was no "ruined breakfast in bed" printed today? Egads! I hope not. Please let me know if your paper printed one, but there wasn't one in the News & Observer. We don't get Curtis on Sundays. Maybe the boys surprised mom with breakfast in bed?
In addition, there was no example of any poor, addled dads/doofus husbands forgetting the event entirely. But, we don't get Drabble on Sundays, either, and Drabble seems a prime candidate for that. Daryl MacPherson (Baby Blues) did leave his three kids in the flower shop, but he did buy Wanda jewelry and flowers, and made dinner reservations!
Happily, there was an example of an ill-conceived, but well-intentioned Mother's Day gift -- Jason Fox gave his mother glow-in-the-dark nail polish. And in my favorite for the day, the moms in Rhymes with Orange brought their bath beads to a paint ball arena. HA HA! They even set up a "Tea Roses vs. Lily of the Valleys" contest.
Hi & Lois and B.C. both imparted this fascinating lesson: everyone has a mother. You don't say!
Happy Mother's Day!
Does that mean that there was no "ruined breakfast in bed" printed today? Egads! I hope not. Please let me know if your paper printed one, but there wasn't one in the News & Observer. We don't get Curtis on Sundays. Maybe the boys surprised mom with breakfast in bed?
In addition, there was no example of any poor, addled dads/doofus husbands forgetting the event entirely. But, we don't get Drabble on Sundays, either, and Drabble seems a prime candidate for that. Daryl MacPherson (Baby Blues) did leave his three kids in the flower shop, but he did buy Wanda jewelry and flowers, and made dinner reservations!
Happily, there was an example of an ill-conceived, but well-intentioned Mother's Day gift -- Jason Fox gave his mother glow-in-the-dark nail polish. And in my favorite for the day, the moms in Rhymes with Orange brought their bath beads to a paint ball arena. HA HA! They even set up a "Tea Roses vs. Lily of the Valleys" contest.
Hi & Lois and B.C. both imparted this fascinating lesson: everyone has a mother. You don't say!
Happy Mother's Day!
posted by big al at 12:47 PM
4 Comments:
In Pickles, they covered the basic cliches. Other than that I was very disapointed! I thought Hi and Lois would have taken the cliche route. And Marmaduke, too.
You're right. Mother's Day was almost ignored this year in the comics. Even Drabble didn't do the flumoxed husband routine. (Instead it was a "my wife talks too much" joke.) Though, if you want to be pissed off look no further than Mallard Fillmore. A kid is writing a leter that says "In an age when 'freedom' and 'careers' trump life and motherhood, thank you for my life." Why super-patriot Tinsley puts the word freedom in scare quotes, I don't know.
So 'freedom' and 'careers' are mutually exclusive with 'life' and 'motherhood.' Huh. Did NOT know that. Don't tell Lois or Sally Forth!
Seriously, when a comic makes you point to Hi & Lois as an example of a "modern lifestyle" (i.e., working mom) . . .
"Arlo and Janis" did a cute Mom's Day strip.. seemed cliche free.
I want breakfast! I want loot! I want tribute!
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/arlonjanis/archive/arlonjanis-20060514.html
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