Comments on: What makes it a book?

By: arnold zwicky

arnold zwicky — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:33:56 +0000

A good idea, supported by the fact that Jeremy’s deafness to his mother’s requests is a recurrent theme in the strip.

By: Julian Lander

Julian Lander — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:28:20 +0000

I would suspect that the bibliography is a reference list, citing the previous notes in which she made the same request. Teenage boys (I think more than girls) are stereotypically deaf to maternal requests. I spent years trying to evade my assigned tasks of taking the trash barrels out for the weekly pick-up and returning them later, and that of sweeping the inside stairs (we lived on the second floor of a two-family house), a job I particularly disliked.

By: arnold zwicky

arnold zwicky — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:23:04 +0000

From Chris Waigl in Facebook:

Janosch and “Panama” are very popular in Germany and part of the standard parts of growing up. I’m pretty sure my niece had a Tigerente.