Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 01, 2015

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    Ida No  about 9 years ago

    New poll up: Which will be the winning poster?

    What Animal Does Zebo Adopt?1) 26 votes – Other.2) 16 votes – Kittens.3) 12 votes – Platypi.4) 10 votes – Bats.5) 9 votes – Hyenas.6) 4 votes – PuppiesOther (multiple votes for snakes, ferrets and rats): Ferret; snake; weasels; Sloth; Turtles; Iguana; Wombat; hedgehogs; Chameleon; Rodents, specifically rats!; Snakes, lizards, and hairless rats; A parakeet trained to say “Zebo is brilliant!”; Cats; Luann; Reptiles, like him. Or should I say, “Reptiles like him.”; Some huge, scary snake; Warthogs; Frilled Lizard; Bearded Dragon

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 9 years ago

    ’m as speechless as Puddles. That’s an amazing picture of him Luann drew.

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    cdgar  about 9 years ago

    Doesn’t quite capture the essence or the cuteness of Puddles.

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    Angelalex242  about 9 years ago

    …don’t quit your dayjob, Luann

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    krys723  about 9 years ago

    This is what Puddles would look like if he was a real dog

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    ShagsCA  about 9 years ago

    Luann — you’re missing the Eddie Cantor googlie eyes!

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    hankgillette  about 9 years ago

    Luann’s a better artist than Evans.

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    SactoSylvia  about 9 years ago

    Cute! Let’s hope Greg doesn’t try that trick with Luann, Brad, Frank, or Nancy… although I will admit I’m curious what the “real” Tiffany looks like!

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    Gerry Lee  about 9 years ago

    Nice! Fun to see what Luann ‘sees’ when she looks at her little Puddles:)

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    Sisyphos  about 9 years ago

    Luann has “realized” Puddles remarkably!

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    Mordock999 Premium Member about 9 years ago

    No, Luann.

    Your “Art” Should MAKE-Professor-Zabats-WEEP!

    So, When You Hand it to Him, STOMP Vigorously on His Big Toe Whilst He’s NOT Looking…..,

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    Aqsnt  about 9 years ago

    Not enough anthropomorphic flair.

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    Willywise52 Premium Member about 9 years ago

    The actual dog looks like a comic.The drawing looks real.Wait.What?

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    dlkrueger33  about 9 years ago

    Um….I’m not even 60 years old and this was before MY time, but I know that it’s “Barney Google…with the Goo-goo-googely Eyes” Not Homer Simpson. LOL

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    JayBluE  about 9 years ago

    “He’s Got Marty Feldman Eyes”^Heard he got ’em on sale…

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    JayBluE  about 9 years ago

    “Technical Difficulties”“All In Altered”“He’s Got Some Bulgey Dabis Eyes…” (♪)“Kermit The Dog”“Ultra Hi Fi Fido”“A Red Iris In The Mind’s Eye”“The Rosy Tints Of Perception”“Special Effects”or“Detail Wagging”

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    specinss  about 9 years ago

    Luann drew a mixture of all three subjects. Height from stuff dog, puddle’s ears, cat’s eyes, etc. The mixture is pretty impressive!

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    luann1212  about 9 years ago

    I said I would not get into the pet arc thing here, but since it gets into artist reproduction I can’t resist. If you take the position that it is the artist’s “eye” that matters then it makes no difference really that the picture Luann painted of Puddles is totally unrealistic. That is how her mind’s “eye” sees him. On the other hand I think drawing him in his faithful and loyal cuteness would be better and more truthful. Is the artist interested in truth? What is truth? Anyway she is a good cartoonist artist, after all look who draws the cartoon, but as a realist she is a flop (lol).

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    specinss  about 9 years ago

    Professor Zebo will probably choose all of the submitted pictures and create a collage.

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    dre7861  about 9 years ago

    Love how Evans ‘answered’ a fan’s comment about why he continues to draw Puddles in a more cartoon style than the rest of the strip! Brilliant!

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    Airman  about 9 years ago

    After all these years, Greg still doesn’t seem to realize that Puddles is a true, lovable gem..

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    whiteaj  about 9 years ago

    Not ’zackly, Luann…

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    Pipe Tobacco Premium Member about 9 years ago

    6A nice drawing by Luann! BUT…. I sincerely hope that this is not an indication that Greg is thinking about drawing the character of Puddles like Luann’s drawing in future comics. I like Puddles how he has been drawn. If he were to get more realism, I would miss greatly the old version of Puddles. I realize that all the characters were transformed (other than Puddles) a while back (see old style in “Luann Again”). But, while I really like the more realistic style to the other characters as they currently are, I sincerely DO NOT think Puddles needs this sort of make-over to a more realistic style. So, Greg, if you read these comments, I hope you keep Puddles as he currently is.

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    paullp Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Your comment is the closest thing I’ve found to my own opinion that we, from our 3D universe, peek into other realities via a 2D box (the comics panel). For this reason, comics don’t have to follow the rules of our universe.

    I find myself pointing this out from time to time when people comment that a comic strip is not realistic in some way; Calvin & Hobbes, with the ongoing debate about whether Hobbes is truly alive, is a prime example.

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    paullp Premium Member about 9 years ago

    1) Isn’t Luann in her freshman year?2) It might be Art 101, a general course for non-majors.3) Your point might be true in our universe; there may be different rules in the one Luann lives in.

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    KasperV  about 9 years ago

    A pedant writes: “The plural of platypus is platypuses”.Another pedant writes: “No it isn’t, it’s platypodes!”

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    dougsathome  about 9 years ago

    Yes, it IS too de-tailed – I don’t see any tail at all.

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    ai_vin  about 9 years ago

    Luann is a better artist then Greg? Go figure.

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    3pibgorn9  about 9 years ago

    heh heh

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    JayBluE  about 9 years ago

    “my take is it’s Greg poking fun thru a sort-of “4th wall” type of thing. It’d be like if Luann looked in a mirror and in reflection we saw a representation of Karen.”^Now it’s my turn to say Yep!

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    JayBluE  about 9 years ago

    Actually, though I can’t “put my finger” on it, still, I remember some comic strip or cartoon characters (including some televised animations) had that “what if they were real or done in different styles?” treatment, including “The Simpsons”, who did it on their own show, if I remember correctly…

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    Argy.Bargy2  about 9 years ago

    -if Luann looked in a mirror and in reflection we saw a representation of Karen

    That would be a great ’toon. Sure hope they take your idea and run with it…

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    Argy.Bargy2  about 9 years ago

    LOL!!

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    Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Sheldon is one of the great indie web comic strips.

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    ACTIVIST1234  about 9 years ago

    Yes, in the drawing Puds is too de-tailed. But as short as it is, you’ll need a side or rear view to see that appendage.*And then you’ll miss the eyes. Charismatic eyes are big, brown, and moist.

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    Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Hey, BRD: so what’s with the horrible purple bulge in the backdrop of panels 1 and 3? Is that some kind of toxic landfill? Colorist AND Greg are hacks. It’s spreading :-P

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    tammyspeakslife Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Perfect

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    Caldonia  about 9 years ago

    I like it. Paint it on velvet and she might have something there. This would be a decent arc—-if she were several years younger.

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    RSH  about 9 years ago

    if Zebo puts this drawing into the shredder, I am going to personally jump through the monitor and strangle his little neck. I like him as a character but I want Luann to succeed at something other than looking longingly at Quill.

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    doverdan  about 9 years ago

    rhelburn said, if Zebo puts this drawing into the shredder, I am going to personally jump through the monitor and strangle his little neck. I like him as a character but I want Luann to succeed at something other than looking longingly at Quill. . . . -——————————————.On Luann and her concept of what constitutes “Success”, try this:

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    Argy.Bargy2  about 9 years ago

    Silly me. I didn’t see the purple as ‘bulges’. Thought it was just the color of the wall in back of Luann. (Our younger sister insisted on purple walls in her teen bedroom. I don’t know why, and her house doesn’t have a single purple wall in it now…)

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    Brickie1971  about 9 years ago

    I think it’s perfect & hope Luann wins! Then give Puddles a steak.

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    spaced man spliff  about 9 years ago

    Puds looks a bit zaftig in that picture.

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    wonderbar  about 9 years ago

    I’d rather find out if the Aussie is going to dump our teenage queen. Something is on the horizon…..

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    RSH  about 9 years ago

    I think after all that work, if it were me, I’d be covered with paint splatter and charcoal dust and the work area would be a mess… but not in the cartoons.

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    JayBluE  about 9 years ago

    “…just can’t quite put my finger on it….”^Others have pointed out the spots they recognize… I’ll contribute with the (♪) “Society was built on Ruuuu-les….”, (♪) stretched to the finite (perhaps even infinite) degree…. – ….and even the “My job is done here!” bit, which sounds like a familiar……“mission statement”…

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    ShagsCA  about 9 years ago

    With all the other life forms in this strip being somewhat lifelike in appearance, perhaps this new Puddles look should be permanent — he’s the only thing looking comical.

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    Gerry Lee  about 9 years ago

    Wow, I like Bernice, but unlike Bernice I was really impressed with Luann’s ability to draw in different styles in that wonderful strip that IAmJayBlue posted for us! So maybe Luann chose the style she thought would get her message across about Puddles, and that’s how she sees him doing an ‘I am adorable take me home’ look, with embellishments, and not necessarily the way she sees him day to day? Today’s was a great strip that started some good conversation and led to a lot of fun speculations:)

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    Ottodesu  about 9 years ago

    What a clever in-joke!There’s been a lot of talk over the past decade about how Puddles the Dog has not evolved in artistic style since the first time he appeared, some 30 years ago.Greg is talking to the fans.

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    FlorCCampayVillalobos  about 6 years ago

    So Puddles is a basset, who would of known?!

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    FrostbiteFalls  about 2 years ago

    Actually, it’s funny how the human characters in “Luann” were gradually drawn more realistically over the years (at least with more realistic physical proportions) and yet Puddles continues to look completely cartoonish. It’s not unlike Jonny Quest, where the human characters were realistically depicted and Bandit the dog was more cartoonish.

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    Rose686  about 1 year ago

    That actually looks like a dog

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