Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for June 04, 2023

Charley Brown in the moon. An exception, as there is always an exception.

Cartoonists are really “real”?

That’s got to be Scott Adams

Comics are the spice of life!

Ah . . . THAT’s why they all called it, “The Crowning Achievement”.

But I get it, dude. You gotta take the paying gigs where you find them. It’s a dog eat Doug world out there.

On the contrary, he’ll be searched for, far and wide, because he was in FA! What other comic strip is as clever, thought provoking, hysterical, great art work and genius dialogue? YAY!!!! Frog Applause! Hip hip hooooray!

Might no longer be employed on the pages, but as a Frog Applause veteran, he can command top dollar at the reunion convnetions like old Star Trek actors!

Should have left it off the resume.

Frog Applause – where cartoon characters and humor come to die!

( Just kidding, Teresa. It’s really Florida )

We know a couple of people who recently moved from the Bay Area to Texas. Both have marketable job experience. Apparently Texas employers count having lived in California as a big negative.

He should have been copyrighted anyway … either way, they have to pay …!

( cartoon lingo for “fixed” )

John Shirley and/or Eric Scott? One can hope.

Bill Bexbe DaVid Banner The Hulk Lou Ferrangul.. chasing Vietnam hamburger hill.

…being in Frog Applause is like playing Superman…

…you get typecast…

…as the best…

…being your best…

…at your best…

…look at Peter Best…

…can’t play with Herman Hermits if you are a former Mop-head…

…you over powered the Beatles for spice sake…

…unless you are lame enough to get a, ‘Tip of the hat’ gig once in a lame while…

…I cam say,‘lame,’ right?…

Sometimes the price is high, to be the lamebestest.

Roll out the monkeys

We’re going to have a barrel of fish and bread.

So, he retires to that big boarding house in the sky for washed-up cartoon characters? Hey, it’s not so bad. He can hobnob with the likes of King Aroo, Hipshot Percussion, and Terry Lee and the Dragon Lady.

I do worry, however, that he thinks doing a gig in Frog Applause is what has sunk his career. Maybe he just isn’t an engaging-enough character? There is a surfeit of sappy-looking loser-guys in the comics, as we all know….