Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 24, 2020

Voice early, voice often!

DUNnage was strewn about the borderlands of Frogladia as if a great unpacking had been hurridly performed,yet there was no sign of the cargo or the laborers who took it hence. Perhaps there’s a clue at the Link?

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He’s portly? Maybe he thinks Teresa is too skinny. Grounds for legal action.

I’m just gonna hold my comments ’til after the intermission.

We can’t let Frog Applause die without a fight!

…I just want Frog Applause to stay…

…I don’t want no disco…

…this ain’t no foolin’ around…

…what a great cartoon, today…

…the artwork almost looks real…

…I thought John Glenn was taking up space?…

…what?…

…not the same John Glenn…

…did Mz. Burritt turn down his advancements?…

…did Mz. Burritt not get an advancement?…

… severance pay?…

…a pink slip?…

…pink slips are sexy….

…but does anyone wear a pink slip anymore?…

…let alone recieved one…

…probably a white elephant gift…

…HA! a white elephant in a pink slip…

…what’s next…?

. …frog legs in nylons?…

…maybe pink nylons with a strip down (up?) the black?…

…almost Friday. …

…Friday was a good man…

…STF…

I kinda feel John Glynn could explain why he has chosen to remove FA, if he wanted to.

Now I am excited about ordering monogrammed pullover hoodies.

The short end of the stick.

I just don’t get it! FA is such a thought provoking, funny, weird, colorful, ingenious toon….so why would GC want to lose fans if the cut FA from their lineup? Will someone explain to me this reasoning? Come on folks! Seriously, FA has a great number that follows this cartoon ON A DAILY BASIS! Sooo WHY the axe? DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE….I THOUGHT businesses WANTED TO INCREASE THEIR VIEWERSHIP/MEMBERSHIP? Somethings not making ANY SENSE to me! a hello, GC, are you out there? Can you please, please, explain WHY you want to give up FA? =~{

Can’t or won’t?

SAVE FA!

Take up the call! No voice is too small! GoComix lameness says it all!

T. you left once before and my days were dark. Please stay!

Hmmm… Is this a serious idea?FA is easily the most original and intriguing comic in the GoComics lineup. If derivative, predictable comics like Dick Tracy stay around, certainly there should be room for Frog Applause.Please do not remove it from the line up.

I really like Frog Applause, please don’t go away!!!

Are they keeping the fat talking potato guy with the big ego?

Is that a bat in the pickup bed? GC = ANTIFA …?

They also cut Scenes from a Multiverse. If they cut this one, my Premium Membership is done.

how exactly do we help ?

Keep FA. . . I mean it – Listen up now – I MEAN IT!

…because I assume the answer but actually do not know for certain…

…can they ax Mz. Burritt, but still run Frog Applause reruns?…

I like the weirdness. The world doesn’t have enuf weirdness, outside of DC, that is. On my dining table I have a box of face masks, a six-inch diameter stuffed COVID virus with googly eyes and a five inch high T-cell, also with those eyes, wearing a baseball cap that says: “Kill.” (That’s what those guys live for.) Weird, huh?

I’m sorry to be a bit behind, but what’s the best way to let GC know that we’d like them to keep comics like this (and also Scenes from a Multiverse, @Mighty Phavahg)?

Many years ago Campbell stopped making Minestrone soup because they weren’t selling enuf of it. Trouble is they lost more customers than they were selling MInestrone to because those folks stopped buying other Campbell soup as well. Any questions, GC?

J. Fran did that good buddy video with Pastis some couple of years or so back. Maybe an appeal to “the Rat” to lean on his pal Mr. Glynn could at the very least get us an honest explanation for T’s. impending termination if not retention.

Looking at a couple of these I get the impression that J.Francis aspires to be the weirdly lame that Teresa has been, for practically forever, and that he now views her as competition rather than complementary.

https://www.gocomics.com/ask-a-portly-syndicate-person/2020/09/24

Nooooooooooooo! GoComics, not obliteration action against frogs or applause!

I want FA to stay.

Save the applause by frogs.

Frida says reading the comics can add years to your life, so the removal of Frog Applause must be Govids attempt at population reduction. Weird business model.

J. Francis Glynn, is it? Never trust a man who hides his first name and uses his middle name. Either he’s hiding an arrest record or just wants to sound more like a real businessman.

Go JF. Being united in Dada is kind of an oxymoron but I can’t think of anything more apt.

Here’s what I wrote; feel free to use this as a template if you like.

Rumor has it that “Frog Applause” is on the chopping block. I implore you, as a long-term paying customer, to reconsider. Frog Applause is easily the most original comic anywhere. Teresa’s work is a breath of fresh creativity every single day (I don’t know how she does it!) and is an inspiration to me in my own pursuit of art. Weird? Sure. What good art ISN’T weird? It’s also thought-provoking, funny, and sometimes downright educational. Please keep it in the lineup.

Once upon a time in my early years as a resident of FA, I HAD to submit a comment to become the 100th for that particular day … today I’ll be around #55 (my lucky number) … what say we get at least 44 more today to force my hand again …?

SAVE THE FROG!!!

OK, folks. This is my first time here. I came because the portly one baited the hook and pulled me in. It seems to me that JFG is trying to save your beloved comic. So all you frogs who applaud it need to back him up.

There are provisions in the kitchen pantry, and running water. There must be a reservoir somewhere, or a tank. There isn’t anything fresh, but some canned goods and preserves seem okay, and there are dried starches, like rice and noodles. And there is a suspiciously large stock of pickled goods in the basement. Peppers, onions, cucumbers, green beans, a minor cornucopia. What appears to be vacuum containers hold flour and such. From the look of it, I could hold out here for months, if I can lay in a supply of wood to keep the place heated. In all of this, there is no clue of where I might be. I can work on that tomorrow. For now, I’ve got beans and rice and dried peppers, mushrooms and onions, along with a fairly comprehensive collection of spices. I saw squirrels and rabbits in the yard. Maybe I can supplement my larder with those. For now, it is enough to be indoors, fed and warm.

Just sent mine!

I have laryngitis, although I would like to voice my plea: Please keep Frog Applause exactly where Frog Applause is..

Well, portly J. Francis (more commonly known—you are known, you know—as John Glynn, Big Cheese of the Comics), with all those black vehicles backing you up, you look kinda like a gummymint Enforcer. We are all familiar with Good Cop-Bad Cop scenarios, but we mere frogs and minor tadpoles want to believe that you could be sympathetic to our Cause. Cartoon-Boy was more adept at applying pressure than we are, ’cause we Froglandians are the Good Guys. So just let me implore you to do whatever you can to save Sister Teresa and the intelligent comic strip, Frog Applause.

Avoid the F-bombs, Portly J. Francis! Be our friend; we are not like Cartoon-Boy. Really!

https://tinyurl.com/y673mbe9

wha???

“WE WANT FROG APPLAUSE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!” “WE WANT FROG APPLAUSE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!” “WE WANT FROG APPLAUSE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!” “WE WANT FROG APPLAUSE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!” (Repeat ad infinitum…)

It’s the incessant lobbying from all those dead cartoonists on Gocomics! (Teresa and Al Capp never did get along)And after she said Gil Thorpe runs like a girl, HE got all huffy, so they’re not friends either. The result is constant inter-office rancor. But business is business: “At Gocomix humor is no laughing matter.”