Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 05, 2010

Overly bubbly, perky and happy, IT’S KELLY RIPA!

Imaginary friend? Alien?

happy 7/5 !

More like Corky Sherwood from Murphy (Mouthy) Brown.

Out of all the things that could have been in that shed I was not expecting an elephant-fairy. What will it look like after it’s eaten, I wonder…?

It’s the fabled pixie pachyderm perhaps named Ekert.

It’s The Great Gazoo, dum dums!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gazoo

To answer a question posed here a few days ago, when I posted a link to a high resolution image of the comic ; I discovered it when the Zazzle ad to the right of the comics failed a few months ago, and Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de Sac, noticed that if you clicked on the proto-Zazzle ad, it produced a very high resolution image of his comic. Last week was the first time I tried to look for the link, but I found it this way: open up the source code for this page. Then search for “zazzle”. By about the third instance of that word, you should find code that ends in “?mime=gif”. Highlight and Copy the section of code that starts with “http” to “mime=gif”, and Paste it to your address bar.

OK, the question in MY mind at this point is WHAT is it hungry for? What do elephant-fairies eat? Wiley is one person I would never accuse of having no imagination. :)

If I were next to a creature that mentioned the word “hungry” so many times, I think I would start running :-)

LordDogmore’s right it’s Kelly Ripa.

That’s pretty scary LordDogmore!

And Ekert, WHAT do you eat?

justin ‘nother swipe at the gop

There was a character on Dexters’ Laboratory, a plnk elephant with wings with Dom Deluise’s voice, that only Dexters’ sister could see or hear.

Wiley, I think chairump is thinking along the lines that the GOP’s mascot is an elephant and that the party has shrunk to a fraction of its original size.

Then again, it’s hard to understand exactly how the far right thinks, so I may be completely off base.

Far better the far right than the far left, look what it did to the Russians.

Wiley, does EVERONE who read you ‘toon have to write a comment? Is it o.k. if I just enjoy it and move on?

Your ‘toons are the best but the comments are tiresome!

Elephants eat peanuts of course as well as grass and leafy green veggies.

Wiley, I think we’ve seen this little guy/girl before, long, long, ago, but I cannot remember the context. Very cute little hefalump tho’. And the kids look awesomely flabergasted! Great art again. Thanks for the chuckle.

Sheik Yabouti - fabulous new avatar

lets be clear, its a heliphant.

Until Wiley tells us it’s name, I like “heliphant.”

BEWARE!! Ekert increases in size exponentially with every bite.

Eletelephony by Laura Richards

Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant- No! No I mean an elephone who tried to use the telephone. (Dear me! I am not certain, quite, That even now I’ve got it right.) Howe’re it was, he got his trunk Entangled in the telephunk; The more he tried to get it free, The louder buzzed the telephee- (I fear I’d better drop the song Of Elephop and Telephong.)

Danae, quit frowning and saying sarcastically! Do something to feed the elephant-fairy right away. It looks very hungry.

It’s from Winnie the Pooh’s 100 Acre Woods, and yes, it is a “Hefalump”! ( Isn’t it, Wiley? Hmm?)

SHEIK: No wonder you get complements on your avatar. That’s Rudolph Valentino, the heart throb of silent movie times. And no I wasn’t around to see him. As to the tiny elephant, does he remind anyone of the Dr. Seuss book “Horton Hears the Who” character?

Whatever the case is, I sense that Danae’s about to put it back in.

I can only hope that I can follow most of this one. I leave again for the road tomorrow and don’t always get to get online. Good thread Wiley. And as long as the comments are not personnally insulting I love them.

Reminds me of an old-fashioned barbershop.

ArthurAllen,

Not necessarily high res, but a larger version on the comic can be seen by left clicking on it. A second left click restores it.

Hey ArthurAllen – thanks for the explanation! Kinda kludgy, but it works, and it is far better than the ‘zoom click’ method I was using!

Now if we can just get past this “if it is an elephant/donkey it must refer to the GOP/Democrats” mindset. Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke after all!

It’s entirely possible that this thing appeared in Dexter’s laboratory, but I seem to remember something like it from some kid’s story too. I can’t remember the details but I think it caused a lot of trouble. Seems like Danae has found a new partner in that sense.

Arthur Allen–How do you open up the source code to this page?

As long as it is a good firefly elephant and doesn’t eat bunnies. I can’t tell what is in the end of it’s “trunk”.

I saw an old Warner Bros. cartoon about this once. I think it was called ‘Picayune Pachyderm Panics Public”, no no no that was the newspaper headline. What was it called….?

It’s tiny, it’s overly cheerful, it’s annoying…it’s hope! They opened Pandora’s Box–literally.

Wonder if Ekert is a he or she?…and what does it eat?…and how fast and big does it grow?….and is it really just a happy and hungry little cuteypie?—or is it actually an insidiously clever and insatiable monster from the pits of hell!!

Inquiring minds want to know, Wiley.

I think it’s a rejected sidekick from Pibgorn…

@jump4joy Re: Viewing the source code for a page.

In Firefox: View -> Page source In IE: View -> Source

Other browsers (e.g. Safari, Chrome, Opera, et cetera) should have something similar.

Yes “Horton Hears a Who” but someone mentioned “Heffalump” which is from “Winnie the Pooh”. So what do we have, a Heffalump, or a Who from Whoville, or something else entirely? I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE! :-)

Actually, this one is neither a Heffalump or a Whoville Horton. Seems to me I remember now it might be one of the Sunday thread characters. Can’t remember all the characters off the top of my head, but the one about heaven, with the dog that changes from being a dog to a duck to a elephant fairy? Somebody help, Wiley?