Happy New Year!
Shelagh made this joke when she saw her ophthalmologist recently. I’m not above “borrowing” a joke from my wife. But if I’m the only cartoonist to make a 20/20 vision joke I will be pleasantly shocked. But what the heck. I still had fun doing this.
Art by Vince Colletta Studio in the story “Teach Me, My Love” in FIRST KISS #29, 1962.
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Scene: Man has removed a woman's eyeglasses and is staring into her eyes.
MAN: Ditch those 2019 blinders! It’s 2020! And we’ve all got 20/20 vision!
WOMAN (thinking): At last I can see...he’s an idiot!
1962 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
Idea by the beautifully bespeckled Shelagh Lustig
29.2.4.5
MAN: Ditch those 2019 blinders! It’s 2020! And we’ve all got 20/20 vision!
WOMAN (thinking): At last I can see...he’s an idiot!
1962 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
Idea by the beautifully bespeckled Shelagh Lustig
29.2.4.5
Looks like he’s decided to make “passes at girls who wears glasses”. Or she could be “framing” him for a good grade. She wanted an A. He wanted to F. They settled on a B.
The only thing I can see, Dave, is that your comment is:
A) Very funny.
B) (Actually, there doesn’t need to be anything beside “A.”)
2020, the year of perfect vision
2020, the year of perfect clarity
I sure hope so. But I’d settle for 2020 being the year of not being perfect idiots.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed on that one, John. Here’s to a new year, decade and hope (raises an imaginary glass of wine).
Never saw why I wouldn’t dates girls who wear glasses. Glasses, like clothes, come off.
Exactly!
Please don’t tell me he showed her “how to laugh” by dropping his trousers…
Okay, I won’t.