Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “Elopement” in First Kiss #4, 1958. Published by Charlton.
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SCENE: Man and a sad (or bored) woman are cuddling.
MAN: I’m so happy! our lives are perfect!
WOMAN: <Sigh> Almost Perfect! Last night I noticed our bedroom ceiling needs painting.
MAN: Last night? when we made love?!!
WOMAN: Well, it was very distracting!
958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Retired Ceiling Inspector: John Lustig
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MAN: I’m so happy! our lives are perfect!
WOMAN: <Sigh> Almost Perfect! Last night I noticed our bedroom ceiling needs painting.
MAN: Last night? when we made love?!!
WOMAN: Well, it was very distracting!
958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Retired Ceiling Inspector: John Lustig
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And we were so happy together.
George’s Interior Monologue: “Just lay me down….yaaaawn…in the tall grass…and…lemme do…sigh…my stuuuuufff…”
Marcia’s Interior Monologue: “Oh. I can hear his heart beat. Twice in one minute. I must be making him as giddy as a school boy.”
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“I know we said we’d make slow love under the moonlight. But maybe not this slow, ‘kay?”
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George and Marcia had nothing in common except depression. Deep, deep depression. They would be together for years until Prozac drove them apart.
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“You’re a weresloth? So am I. I’d transform under the full moon, but that just sounds like too much work.”
It was at that point George knew he’d found the gal for him.
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No one called George and Marcia a cute couple. A lethargic one, yes. A bleak couple, all the time. But never “cute”.
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A rare photo of somnambulists mating in the wild.
Jams – You’ve captured the “why” in my question for George, “Why the long face?”
“I’d rather have my fingernails pulled out than be here with him.”
I’m not sure she has human fingernails.
What’s the difference between a mistress and a wife?
During sex the mistress is crying out “More!! MORE!!!” and the wife is thinking “Beige. Let’s paint the ceiling beige.”
Yes, very old. All your screens now have cobwebs on them. You’re welcome!