Lio by Mark Tatulli for August 01, 2022

can you find Bander Snax in Costco?

Right up there with the jujube birds.

Nice of Lio to have that “always be prepared” attitude!

The drawing of the Jabberwocky is amazing. I continue to love this strip.

Terry Gilliam would be proud.

According to Lewis Carroll, “frumious” is a portmanteau of “fuming” and “furious.”

It’s much more “cartoony,” but I like that Tatulli based his drawing of the Jabberwock on Tenniel’s original.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Those snax seem not to be frumiating at all. If I ask for frumious, I’m expecting fire and smoke.

Frumious Bandersnatch are native to Jinx.

SHUN THEM, Lio!! SHUN THEM!

So that’s what a Jabberwocky looks like. Good to know for futur reference…..

They’re tulgy.

Get some snicker snacks.

Jabberwock prefer Frumious Bander-Snax! over Vorpal Blade Snicker-Snax. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

I recognized the Frumious Bandersnatch immediately from the original. It pays to be well read.

Funny and literary! It’s win-win!

Now with slithier toves!

Hmmm. A happy jabberwocky is no better than a menacing one.

Very angry (yeah, I looked up frumious) Bander Snax?

“Dad. Look what followed me home.”

’Twas brillig and the slithy tothes did gyre and gimble in the wabe—but not before having a frumious argument with autocorrect.

Looks more like a Jabberwock than a Bandersnatch.

I wondered what Spitfire from the Jefferson Starship album liked to eat!!

Anything for a Bander Snax!

I believe that “Jabberwocky” is an adjective. The creature is a “Jabberwock”. The Tim Burton movie got this wrong (for this mistake I blame the screenwriter, Linda Woolverton, who certainly had a strong vision for the retelling but seems to me not to have been a very strong Carroll scholar). My advice: read the original, a classic that rewards repeated rereading.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gymbal in the wabe.