Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 31, 2020

Sounds like Jimmy is going to retire.

Thirty-five months is a nice big loaf of stories. I’m happy to be along for the ride.

Sounds like lots of future re-runs to me.

The best ones are all retiring! I’m 72 still doing stupid taxes for three and a half months a year. I will probably keep doing them another 3 years. God help me.

Jan Eliot stopped on my 50th birthday… Now Jimmy?

The date would be – Friday, 2 April 2021. Hope it will be a April Fool’s joke and the strip continues…

That’s about what I’ve got left too, it feels like.

Everyone needs a few of those kickback do nothing years before reaching the point of having to make the final decision….should I buy green bananas?

Ah, remember the good old days when the Baby Boom was the Hope of the World?

Awwwww :(

JJ, if this is your hint of retiring, sorry to see to go. I’m hoping it’s not due to a health issue.

Thanks for all the years of enjoyment and a touch of reality (in the comic strip world at least), you’ve provided. I know the next months are going to be a great ride.

Hopefully there are a few books and collection out there that can be purchased.

I’m more worried about losing Pickles. What happens after they retire a comic strip about retirement? Afterlife comics? Pickles prequel? Etc. ??? (Ditto for Crankshaft).

Cue the the theme from “Jaws”?

Three more years! Three more years!

Will be sorry to see the comic end but can understand if retirement is in the future the same as with Jan Eliot and ‘Stone Soup’. Just sorry to be losing my daily ‘friends’ from the newspaper (and yes, I still read those).

Jimmy – be sure to visit us in Sidewinder, Colorado this winter :>

Even if you’re doing what you love, it is great to not have to do it anymore. My personal advice is to retire just as soon as you can. Social Security encourages us to work well past 70 but that can cost you. Whenever you do retire, crunching the numbers shows it will take another 12 years to recoup what you would have collected from retiring earlier. What will you feel like doing in your 80’s with your extra income?

Why 35 months instead of 36?

Whatever the answer, mornings will never be the same.

Heller wrote “Closing Time” about the exit of his generation.

Our exit will be played out in Arlo and Janis.

So we have a three year warning?

I knew this would come some day. But it is such a downer to hear it announced on such a milestone anniversary. 8^ (

Wish you would find a market for the early years of A&J. GoComics only goes back to ‘94. I have read all the years available here since I first became aware of the strip. The local rag didn’t carry it until it was sold and became the state mass media conglomerate, AL.com.

I like waking up knowing I don’t have to go to work so much that I do it 3 or 4 times a day!

:(

sort of dark there Arlo

Mr. Johnson, sir, please listen to Janis rather than Arlo. Another 30+ years may well be out of the question, but Janis still has a lot to say,

Maybe Jimmy’s prediction of how much longer print media will be able to hang on.

He is still concerned about the virus. If you are still alive in the USA in 35 months, you obviously listened to the real experts, not the wackos.

Some how I have believed imaginary people, like Arlo and Janis, Pogo and Churchy, Charlie Brown and Linus, Calvin and Hobbs, Mike Doonesbury and Zonker Harris, and a whole bunch of others, would go on forever because they are immortal. I forget their creators are mortal on this plane. Thank you however long your creations last (before going into reruns?).

Hope he is not worried about possible Covid 45

So there are no plans to make this strip the next Gasoline Alley? I suppose newspapers and comic strips won’t be around in another 35 years (and I certainly won’t be), but it would be fun to see A&J in their nineties.

New themes to explore: hearing loss, hair loss, prostate issues, erectile dysfunction, kids taking the damn keys away.

Ah geez — all my favorite comics are going away! Schlock Mercenary just retired after 20 years of uninterrupted webcomics, Heart of the City disastrously changed cartoonists not long ago, Stone Soup retired, etc. I don’t begrudge them a well-earned retirement (I’m retired myself) but I find myself a bit bereft without my old comics friends.

35 months from now = Friday, June 30, 2023

May he pass the torch to someone worthy of the privilege when the time is right.

Well, several Strips survived its Creator, Blondie, Prince Valiant… On the other hand Charles Schultz dying the day the final Peanuts strip appeared in the newspapers….

In three years…. unless we can convince him otherwise.

Oh, no…. not another one leaving….

Then he can go back to racing full time.

“…the sad truth Is that while most of us protect ourselves from this virus, this idea that masks infringe on their rights is what’s gonna take us all down…”

That is almost 3 years. Many of the readers will be gone before this strip ends. Enjoy it today and don’t worry about what may happen years from now.

Is this the long goodby?

Being of the ‘Boomer’ generation, A&J has been my absolute fave strip for years….Maybe it’s time in three years or so to do what Bill Amand of FoxTrot did and turn it into a weekly new strip with re-runs during the week…. That way we stay happy reading the occasional new stip but we get or ‘fix’ reading the re-runs…and the bonus is Jimmy gets to keep us happy, himself active…(like you need my advise)…and the syndicate happy… with a drizzle of fresh income coming in…..Either way…I’ll be reading your strips ‘till I can’t read anymore….They’ere that great!…

Let’s have some more

The way it mirrors my family life, I hope this isn’t the comic strip of Dorian Gray

Ginger Meggs turned 99 this year, and it is just as funny as, if not funnier than, ever.

https://www.gocomics.com/gingermeggs/2020/07/31?ct=v&cti=78342

JJ said on the Blog on Thursday he’d give us info on Gene & Family and other upcoming news but no posts yet today??

Another one rides the bus.. :-(

Is this another cartoonist telling the audience he is retiring? Hope not! The retirement of Jan Elliot/Stone Soup is enough for now!

35 months – Lasting until June 2023.

Guys, guys (and Gals!).

35 months , 35 years.

Get it?

I remember a change in a comic strip (but cannot remember the which strip!). Someone took over the strip (a son??) and one of the characters, a woman, looked less stern. I think this was around late 1988. Anyone remember the name of a comic strip like this?

JJ – I posted this on a comic earlier in the week – I love your comic and hope that it will continue. I am 67 and husband is 68 and even semi-retirement is not fun, I know from experience.

If you do retire – join a club that your wife won’t join (or you won’t let her join) so you get some time alone. Smartest thing I ever did was join a local chapter of the Embroiderer’s Guild of America – in normal times I get to go out one day a month without husband – last time I drove a car was the March meeting – he has been driving ever since. It keeps my sanity – have had Zoom meetings for April, May and June and at least he left me alone in the office for them – so I had some time alone. (If I let him, he would join the EGA chapter).

Maybe one of JJ’s kids could pick it up from Gene’s point of view.