Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 09, 2023

It’s the first time that Eddie took a good, hard look at himself.

Ok, well, this is Eddie we’re talking about, right?

Do Australians do it for self-discovery or to get away from the wife and kids?

“I was lost in there for 3 days before they sent in rescue teams and a helicopter.”

I rather doubt that Paulie enjoyed it. Most cats that I’ve known detest what they see in a mirror

If this continues, gonna be an interesting week.

Lots of question marks coming out of Eddie’s pipe!

Australians would of course be familiar with H.G. Nelson’s exhortation to go into the hall of mirrors and take a long hard look at yourself.

walk about the house of mirrors

Eddie didn’t call it that, so don’t try to correct him!

Eddie’s used his pipe to reproduce the shape of that distinct new galaxy the Webb telescope found. Cool!

Oddly, whenever I hear the term Walkabout I think of the 1971 Nicholas Roeg movie “Walkabout”. If you’ve ever seen it you’ll understand why.

“A dingo ate my baby!”

now is he going to find ‘himself’ in the reflections?

House of Mirrors is sure to waken his senses….

He did not say he was on a journey of self-discovery. He said he was on a walkabout.

Carnival of Souls.

Does Australia have state fairs?

When we go “walkabout” in the US, they call it homeless. Gotta be a little careful there.

So tell us Eddie, did you discover how many sticks of deep fried butter you could eat?

In the American southwest, he’ll need some peyote

I went to the Topsfield Fair in Massachusetts the other day. I ate a turkey leg, looked at the 2198 pound pumpkin, and watched the racing pigs. Life is good!

Hilarious, isn’t that what art and self discovery is ? Holding a mirror up to the world and …. wait a minute … never mind.

It’s been said by some that a cartoon is the creator’s way of showing the reader themselves. And that laughing is a ‘nervous’ response to not otherwise knowing how to react to what we are experiencing. When I read this strip, I never know whether to laugh at myself or cry for humanity.

A+++++ for Wiley.

Cap’t Eddie isn’t usually the reflective sort.

Our indigenous peoples used to and in some cases still do “go walkabout”. From what I gather it is to more firmly establish themselves in the mystery and legends of their forbears ( approaching, so I am informed 60, 000 years of the same culture, and still on-going). It’s not simply to “get away from it all” but to become closer to their culture. Rather beautiful, actually – something I regret not having the ability to do, being an elderly white Anglo-Irish inhabitant of this great land. Of course, I am more than happy to be taken to task by my indigenous cousins, if they so wish to …