The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for March 19, 2021

You can’t be serious!

Emmett Kelly VI is a disgrace to the family name.

Don’t blame him if he can’t live up to his father’s example, after all, those are some big shoes to fill!

That stoopid Grimaldi kid is spoiling the curve for everyone!

Bozo has left the building !

i’ve always wondered, when clowns hit the loo is it comic relief…?

But now he’s got a funny feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Now jester a minute, Teach. Are you trying to ruin my son’s future? You’ve really upset him. Just look at his tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaMX0Cs5Bc4

When clowns were funny not horror picture stars!

I want to see the kid who supplanted him.

“IT” won’t make a difference in a few years, his life will be in the sewer system.

Krusty will not be pleased.

The creepy family.

This is all everybody will be talking about in the car on the way home.

Pagliacci Junior High?

“But Mama, I don’t want to be a clown! I want to be an actuary.”

I can’t tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing

I’d like to see who one upped him.

Proud to say that I owned that title in grade school. And I even got my own special seat right next to the teacher. And on a good day I got to stand outside of the classroom door during the duration of class!

Funny time to bring up the subject.

“Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me?”

Looks like the boy is getting extremely conflicting behavior modification teaching between school and home. He is going to need therapy.

Mom will make sure he has a squeeze horn and a seltzer bottle with him tomorrow.

Comics know you’ve gotta change your material.

That kid is no Bozo!

The clown took his car to the mechanic because it wasn’t taking funny noises.

On my page, Andy Capp comes right before The Argyle Sweater (I like ’em alphabetical). Interesting that today, both strips deal with point of view.

Old clown joke (or is it a cannibal joke?):

Why don’t cannibals eat clowns?

They taste funny.