Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 10, 2016

I remember some of my stuffed animals’ names, but they’re all gone away (probably donated years ago).

Give Chubby to Puddles. I’m sure he can find something to do with it.

Needs more humor here. That or Ox crushes Leslie.

The Sunday panels, with only rare exceptions, are independent of the weekday story arcs. You might try complaining again tomorrow.

They didn’t quite get the last part of the joke right in the Spanish translation.

We all have once-loved toys moldering somewhere.

what’s the danger?

what’s the danger?

She doesn’t remember the toy. A lot of kids forget toys they once cared about. That’s why so many parents have boxes in their basements or attics.

“No ’Stalgia, At All!”“Fuzzy Logic”“Waxing And Waning”“That Darn Cat!”“Chubby Checked Him (For A Twist!)”“Fuzzy Wasn’t”“The Gift Of A Memory”“She Passed On A Past Present”“Chugg? You Lug!”“Five’ll Getcha Forgotten”“Wistful Thinking”“Thrift, In Store”“Consign Language”“A Frank Discussion”“A Safe Passage”“Weigh Your Words Carefully”“A Holdup In The Memory Bank”or “A Sentimental Case”

Poor Nancy. Your “little girl” has Kinda Grown Up. Don’t be upset, Mom. Luann throws ALL Her toys away when she’s Bored with ’em. Just ask Q-Ball…..,

He called him CHUGGY, not Chubby! Danger!

Luann isn’t a teenager anymore though.

That article was very interesting. I hadnt realized story lines were planned up to a year in advance

I give silver coins for presents. Decades from now they will have some worth.

She’s giving Frank a Chubby?

Save it for Luann’s first child.

Even Chubby is giving him the look on the last panel!

When we were clearing out my mother’s house a few years ago, I found my beloved stuffed dog. I had no idea she had kept him. He’s grown thin from stuffing packing down, and a lot of the nap is worn from his fur, but 65 years ago, we were inseparable. I started life with him. I guess now I’ll finish with him. (My wife says he’s a rabbit, but she doesn’t know.)

You know I see the chubby versus chuggy angle. I did not notice that. It still does not change the careful male spouse equation, just the proximate cause. It could be interpreted either way validly though, either beloved memory, or being careful not to intimate Nancy might be chubby (and she is quite hot to use the current term anyway).

still have my fisrt teddy bear and a few stuffed animals

Shadow Beast,

In real world time Luann is not a teenager, but in Luanniverse time she just finished her FIRST year of college so still a teen! The strip manages to gently remind us of that. There have been little reminders scattered throughout months apart to help people place the timing.

Dad makes a good save.

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Don’t remind me of old toys, I threw out my son’s original matchbox cars collection (the originals) He had hundreds. Do you know what these are worth today. AGH!!!!!!!!!!

My teenage daughter still remembers her favorite stuffed animals from her childhood.

No, Frank, “Chuggy” isn’t anyone Luann knows. He or she is a friend of Dez and Piro.-

I was so NOT like Luann at that age…

“Needs more humor here. "*JR – Plenty of humor for me (I’m easy to please):1) Mom cleans, Lu never does2) Mom remembers a sweet time, Lu never does.3) Dad confuses the name with his teen relationship to a favorite hot-weather beverage.

I still have all my old toys, and my mother’s old toys. They are in a special room in the attic, all displayed. It’s like a fairyland in there! I also have all of the Little Lulu comics, up to the point John Stanley stopped doing them. Some days it’s fun to go into the Children’s Room, play some old Little Rascals or Lone Ranger videos, and play with the old toys. There’s nothing like it!

… also @bluebottle

Do a search on “totally mad” on eBay and you will find a set of CD-ROMs with the content of the entire magazine’s run. I have it installed on my computer and often access those to read the satires of some of my favorite television shows of the past, such as “Mission: Ridiculous”, “The Tranquilizer” and “Swill Street Blues”.

Some of them are priced rather high (I got mine before people realized what the set was worth) but probably worth it.

HOW treasured items left, for me, matters more than them being gone. The ones tossed by someone else without asking are still missed, but i think that is more because i was not extended the respect of being involved in a choice about my own belongings. The ones i gave away left good feeling memories for the most part. Funny, but i had not realized that weighing aspect till i read Sallymargaret’s comment about Little Lulu. When i was 8 my parents chose to have a highly pigmented scar removed from my face. (I did not mind it.) and i took many comics w me to the girl’s ward. The little girl next to me had lost a leg and she loved reading Little Lulu, so i sorted all of those from the other comics i had brought and left them for her. That got me thinking about other toys, books, and comics, and almost always the how matters more than the what.

I remember books and comic books from my childhood more than most other “things.” We didn’t have a lot of money, but my parents made sure my brother and I had magazine subscriptions (Boy’s Life for him, I think it was American Girl – way before the dolls – for me). We spend our allowances on comic books and Mad Magazine, and somehow also got Perry Mason paperbacks. For the comic books I remember mostly Archie et al and some Richie Rich… how we pored over them all! (There were action heroes in the mix too, but I didn’t read them like my brother did.) I suspect most if not all of it got thrown out during the big move when we were 10 & 12 years old, as did my father’s collections of Popular Mechanics and High Fidelity magazines.

Given that Luann is still only teenaged, I find it hard to believe that she really wouldn’t remember her all-time favorite stuffed animal. Maybe she is just embarrassed to admit that she does (which is, I think, more like what a teen would feel)….

We forgot “Ratty- Tat -Cat”!

I remember at the age of 3, going on 4, getting my first “Magic Slate” at Sears, after my mom and grandmother took me to lunch, there.

Did anyone else read Classic Comics, Adventures in Science, and Metal Men, too? I read the standards, but those stick more in my memory.

Yes, that makes sense about Luann still being 18. I knew she was still a teenager.

Luann looking tough and unsentimental. Amazing all these variations with such simple outlines.

SPOILER

A very surprising act shows up to participate in The Fuse Follies…

My mom hardly keeps anything.

I’m the opposite of Luann in this area. I am very nostalgic.