Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 08, 2012

Survey sez: 9 out of 10 teenage girls are drama queens.

Ye cats, what a HAM!

Alright Lu, lets CUT to the CHASE. Now just WHO will You get to design Your Theater Costumes?

SURELY Not the G-Man. REMEMBER Him? The Guy You Kicked to the curb?

Gumption!

You got him. You’re good, Luann. Now try doing this to get Quill hooked.

Game point to Luann…..I’m in middle schools and high schools a lot. Most girls can do that with just a look and a roll of the eyes……..

When your child has taken acting lessons, you never know what’s the real story anymore…

Worst case scenario she ends up being the director of the local community club in drama and ends up trying to find roles for herself, only to end up with less desirable roles. Casting professional here please……Also whats ox doing?

ENFPs like Luann are considerably overrepresented in psychodrama. In fact they’re considerably overrepresented at every level of the film and theater industries.

Very well put.BTW, what exactly does Frank do?

ACTING Privately Prepared for Luann DeGroot, Lesson One: The difference between over-acting and good acting.

Go ahead.Use your skill to learn that acting is more that acting up. You can do it, if you WANT to. Do you?(and I mean WANT, not “want – sort of”)I love that the caracters in this strip develop.Even Calvin and Hobbes get boring after years and years of…

Good one Luann. Making your father think. Anything is possible for you. Reach for it and work hard.

Reach for the stars, but always have a Plan B.

like the belly button

HA! Fantastic!

Yah, I forgot, where IS Quill???

Frank was thinking “Sorry honey, but ya got a face for radio.”

He is just concerned about her making a living wage. It is hard as hell to get someone to pay you to act. Usually you have to pay to be in a theater production.

C&H boring !?!NFW..(heretic)..

If she actually took theatre classes she might find out she doesn’t like it so much as to make a living from it. It requires a bit more discipline than I’ve seen from Luann.

To answer Mordock999. Gunther will design the costumes for her.

well said

I liked Luann’s confidence in this strip. Instead of being crushed by her father’s luke warm reaction, or ignoring him out of desperation, she puts her talent to work and shows us she’s got what it takes. Nice!

Survey says 9 out of 10 readers of this comic wishes Evans would switch story lines!!!!

I’m sure someone’s already mentioned this, but I’m sure Luann, like too many other young girls with their heads in the clouds, want to become the next uber-famous starlet with her own clothing/perfume line and a million dollar paycheck. Very few actually reach that level and, those that do, really don’t deserve it (IMO)! (Kardashians, $35 mill-annually Gisele Budchen, Snooki…)

….(Oh! And Kristen Stewart, ugh! Actress?)

The best crossover comic I’ve ever seen:http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2008/05/25

To Greg Evans: You’re good at theater too.

“Talking ’bout MAN-ipulation”

Favored tactic of teen Girls since time immemorial!

Congrats, Zits The strip featured a pregnant high schooler. Addresses the teen pregnancy issues in high schools. Like Lynn Johnston of FBOFW, the artist of Zits took risks. I like that.

“People like you are never satisfied unless you are complaining.”.But complaining about complaining makes one a complainer and is like a snake swallowing its own tail.

Let’s see, if Luann goes to a school for theatre when she’s eighteen, assume a three year course, when she’s done she’ll be twenty-one. Ah, I think that’s still pretty young. Not dead.

Luann’s been in high school for the past 27 years. By the time she gets out of college, maybe she won’t be dead, but chances are we will be.

just who is going to pay for this schooling?

I’m coming in late on this discussion so I might be a little off topic. But Tom Batiuk of Funky W. addressed the issue of teen pregnancy many years ago. I no longer read him regularly but I think he has lately addressed homosexuality. Somebody with more current knowledge please jump in.

Sigh. People like you take things out of context. I said took risks which were in reference to Lawrence coming out of the closet, Anthony cheating on wife with Liz, Paul cheating on Liz with another woman on the reservation, Liz having a series of cheater boyfriends and one with commitment issues, Liz or April making out in the basement of their house, Farley dying – need I go on? There were a lot of risks that Lynn took with her strips. As for pregnancy, did you forget that Deanna messed up on her birth control pills and got pregnant? Remember Mike and Deanna freaking out?THESE are the risks I am talking about. Greg would not take those kind of risks in his strips. He keeps his storylines fluffy with exception of Ann being predatotory and Delta struck with cancer – and oh yeah, Toni in an abusive relationship with Dirk.

There were actually two separate controversies surrunding the character of Lawrence – he came out in ’93, and then fell in love with someone in ’97..As for later “riskiness” – she waffled and caved in. When Michael and Deanna got married, the story line was that Deanna’s mother objcted to having a gay man as part of the wedding party. Johnston came up with an “alternate” strip having the mother object to the flower arrangements Lawrence provided so it could be run in papers that disapproved of the gay subject matter and hadn’t run the strips re Lawrence being gay..Oh yeah, risky to the max. .What I actually consider “risky” is Johnston claiming she was the author of a piece of poetry that Michael “writes” in the strip, and then keep insisting that it was her own work in the face of proof that she obviously plagiarized it..Tacky, if nothing else.

@howtheduckI must have missed something. I sure don’t remember Luann being in love with an older married man. If this is true would somebody please post the date that arc started. I would sure like to go back and read it.

Luann goes to summer theater camp. This stared with West Side Stpry and we’ll see all her angst an triumphs. A new love interest…? Crushing defeats…

Not to forget Archie Comics – gay character, Archie dating Valerie – a black girl, a menage trois (Betty, Archie, Veronica – saying it is perfectly OK to cheat with other girls), and Kevin, the gay character, marrying another man. Quite modern. I don’t understand Greg’s hesitancy to be more forward and modern with his storylines. They sure did not cost other cartoonists their readerships.

Luann’s concerns about her first menstruation, birth control, drunk driving, people with handicaps, etc. *???? Those I don’t recall. If so, those are not really risky topics. It is just everyday stuff. *Brad’s occupation as a firefighter was the result of his reaction to 9/11. There seems to have been some risky topics to me.That was a reaction to a TRAGEDY – not a risky topic. Nearly all cartoonists wrote about 9/11 therefore it is hardly a risk at all. Like Mojitobaby mentioned, there were some others that I’ve forgotten – those were better examples than what you mentioned.

Well played, Luann