Monty by Jim Meddick for September 22, 2011

Jarvis is “The One”. He’s got the cloak, and everything. Lookout TC and EOTFMADC.

I guess that particular “secret handshake” is lots easier for four-fingered cartoon characters than for us ordinary five-fingered schlubs….

Take the Google search Sedgewick! You really don’t want to have to go through that initiation. and neither does the goat

So I googled, and got – nada… truly a secret organization. I always suspected that there was more to Jarvis than the facade he presents.

I’ve always liked Jarvis. A man servant who puts up with Sedgewick 24/7 has to be made of tough stuff.

Why do cartoonist use only 3 fingers and the thumb?

^ You have to undergo a highly classified initiation to find that out.Or just try drawing some comics-sized characters with 4 fingers and thumb.

This is all an elaborate prank by Jarvis. I’m sure of it.

oh, no, no. Jarvis wouldn’t punk Sedgewick. The boy’s birthday isn’t for months!

Sedgie really does have Marty Feldman

eyes today..

I don’t know whether this has been debunked or not, but the oft-told story is that Walt Disney started the three-fingers-and-a-thumb convention with Mickey Mouse. With animated characters, not only is a three-fingered hand quicker and easier to draw (which adds up, when you’re doing it hundreds and hundreds of times), but its motions “read” more clearly than a four-fingered hand. It caught on, even with human characters as well as animals, and spread from animated cartoons to static cartoons.

I am embarrassed to admit that during fits of pique I’ve been known to communicate using hands as quick code.

We’re none of us perfect. :(

It’s diabolical. That’s the only word to describe this week’s strip.

That sneak Jarvis has been a member all along!