Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for May 15, 2012

Clovia, you’re going to kinda lonely before tomorrfow.

Wait until Mr. Dennis gets a load of Lucky in action. He’ll want his two cents back.

And Lucky becomes a star on cat food commercials ala Morris!

Maybe Clovia can giv eSlim away for 2 cents. Dennis is drawn almost to life like a characterture.

Yep, I have a feeling we haven’t seen the last of Lucky. But for now, I’m glad he’s gone.

Maybe we can get along on another subject.

Sometimes Jim is clearly drawing a real person into the strip for whatever reason. I suspect Gertie was originally based on a real person. When an “expert” is brought in to consult on the strip, Jim probably repays them by including them. I remember googling the name of a doctor or veterinarian in the dailies a while back, and finding that she had a practice in North Carolina.

Dirt cheap – 2 cents to adopt a cat??

Cheap feed for his pet Boa.

Does anyone else think this is really sad? Cats, especially male, do have a wild side, but it is nothing specifically personal or malicious toward us in the anthropomorphic sense. Hope the new guy is a good cat father and not a puppy-mill owner.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Shame on Clovia and Slim. Soon’s the shoe was on the other foot Clovia sure changed her tune in a hurry.

Looks like this man

http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/groth-dennis.shtml

Well, Ours is very athletic but also very sociable and a real love-muffin unless you get him up on his kitty condo. Then he wants to play-fight. Oof, my finger is still smarting. We think that if we were bite-size he’d eat us. But he ignored a mouse.