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Hunting down Dali isn’t easy, especially if everybody around you talks in
impenetrable Jazz Age patter that, we’re guessing, didn’t make much sense
back then either.
It’s Newton. It’s Frederick. It’s Sinclair Lewis’s worst dream, full of
sound and fury signifying who knows what.
PLUS Isaac Newton has been added to the Dramatis Personae!
PLUS a new About page that actually says something ABOUT the comic!
23 Skidooooooo!
With the exception of the mid-eighteenth century, 1920s/30s America is definitely my favorite slice of space-time. Sinclair Lewis novels, H.L. Mencken articles, Clarence Darrow trials, Buster Keaton films, Robert Goddard rocket launches, Tesla on the cover of Time magazine, Gene Austin ballads… good stuff all.
Most of all, though, it’s the way they talked that keeps me coming back. Listen to Jolson talking to his mother in The Jazz Singer or Cagney punching three hundred words of dialogue into thirty seconds of Footlight Parade or some Lewis character rhapsodizing about The Motorcar… none of it makes any damn sense, but it’s infused with this totally irresponsible, shallow, We’ll Screw Tonight And Drink Ourselves To Death In the Morning vitality that shines forth from between the corn pone nineteenth century and the metal lunch box fifties as Something To Remark.
Gary Abernathy is my tip of the tophat to all of that.
– DvL
I’m really hoping at some point to write into the strip an eighth puppy that Frederick acquires. This is so that puppy can also be eaten on a raft. You will cry, for the puppy will have been lovable, but you will also know down in the grim parts of your heart that the puppy death was needful.
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Back in the day, official personal interactions made no sense, and we were
better off for it. In today’s episode, Newton and Voltaire square off
according to the best rules of 18th century wit and decorum. The results
are perhaps as one would imagine…
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