Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 19, 2019

“So he said ’Let’s run, and we’ll have some fun, now before I melt away.’”

“Energetic!”

Magic, romantic moment for the snowman.

I hollered over t’ Ethel, I said, “Don’t look, Ethel!” But it was too late, she’d already been incensed. -Ray Stevens’ “The Streak”

Arlo, look what followed me home. Can we keep him?

No! He’ll piddle all over the house.

Now, THAT made me laugh out loud!

“Who’s tripping down three streets of the city…..”

Love the look on Janis’ face. Hahaha!!!

Reminds me of “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.”

See “Jack Frost (1997)”… (and not the movie that came out a year later; both movies were mistaken for one another and couldn’t be more different)… :-P

It took a while for me to realize it was an inflatable snowman.

Great Cartoon strip!!! LOL

Arlo: How was your walk?

Janis: I don’t know. Am I awake or asleep?

“I was chased down the street by Frosty the Snowman, what do you think?”

Janis exhibits “The Thousand Meter Stare.”

I think he likes you.

Very appropriate today in NewEngland. Cold and winds 20-30 mph. Windchills below 0

She cold have mistaken it for the Stapuff marshmallow man. Call ghostbusters.

Shouldn’t Calvin be behind the bushes, with something to pry the moorings out of the ground?

“Janis got run over by a Snowman…”

Try not to be paranoid, but remember… he’ll be back again some day, some day; he’ll be back again some day.

“It was a breeze!”

I was walking my dog just about sundown and as we passed a yard, the automatic timer kicked in and the inflatable Santa began to rise up….my dog just about had a heart attack.

I hate those things, for a few hours of a day they’re blown up, the rest of the scenes in daylight look TRASHY! Ugh. UGLY UGLY UGLY

“…And he was whistling at me the whole way!”

@JJ Any chance of a historical collection of the strip in book form? Even in .PDF form on the internet?

His name if Olaf and he just wants to give you a big hug! :-)

The second panel is a cartooning masterpiece! The posture of the snowman and Janis leaning back on her heels completely cracked me up.

I’ve seen bigger ones then that! Like twice that size. My favorite this season isn’t actually that large, it’s a small to mid size blowup of three Elves trying to get a tree home that is bigger then their car with two of them trying to hold it on the top. I’ve also seen one from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.

Chased by Frosty, same old same old.

She’s in shock.

Trash day here in my part of NJ is usually Windy Wednesdays and crap seems to find its way into my yard. We are close to the river and the wind can yank Christmas blow up lawn decorations and hurtle them a hundred yards or more. I nearly lost a fence gate one year due to the sheer force of the snow globe motor slamming into my gate.

Burl Ives approved

A great cartoon that made me actually laugh out loud!!! Those blow-up decorations inevitably fail. I can imagine this happening. It is a wonderfully funny horror movie.