Please let’s hold off on looking it up at least until Monday night : I’m more interested in your suggestions.
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I think this was intended to convey a refraction effect that is making the kid’s face appear much larger than it really is(*). Perhaps her shocked reaction is because she thinks he is larger (therefore an adult).
P.S. This is cartoon physics, real panes of glass would not do this.
I’m pretty sure she is saying something, and that something is the missing caption. But, at 2:00am, I don’t gots a funny suggestion.
“Why, Peter. What big eyes you have.”
That magnification effect is really rather brilliant drawing!
“No, Tommy, mine did not fall off because I played with it too much!”
” My, you’re getting to be such a big boy!”
“What? You saw them a thousand times before you were one year old.”
“Little sis, you look a lot different from the other side of the glass.”
In actuality, although I don’t know the original caption, I do know that a detail from this strip is on the dust jacket of Peter Arno’s Lady in the Shower, so that presumably would be the place to look.
“I don’t care if we’re all out of milk. You’ll have to wait until we go to the store!”
There in fact may not be a caption to this one. It’s purported to be a companion to a similar captionless Man In A Shower, which I find funnier.
According to the discussion at Attempted Bloggery, https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2017/05/blog-post-no-2200-peter-arno-drawings.html (scroll about two-thirds of the way down), Arno had a long-standing fascination with cartoons in which a little boy sees a naked auntie in the shower or bath and seemed to think that such pictures were inherently funny. It may well be, as Grawlix suggests, that there was no caption originally.
I finally found my copy of Arno’s book. This comic is in it, and has no caption.
Are you looking for your yellow ducky?
Well, it has some good captions NOW!
I knew I should have bought that shower curtain….
What the matter honey… Do you have to Pee???
“To outgrib” means “to revive a 6-months-old thread with a fresh new post”.
So those of us with email notifications can observe – – The Mome Rath just outgrabe!
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I think this was intended to convey a refraction effect that is making the kid’s face appear much larger than it really is(*). Perhaps her shocked reaction is because she thinks he is larger (therefore an adult).
P.S. This is cartoon physics, real panes of glass would not do this.
I’m pretty sure she is saying something, and that something is the missing caption. But, at 2:00am, I don’t gots a funny suggestion.
“Why, Peter. What big eyes you have.”
That magnification effect is really rather brilliant drawing!
“No, Tommy, mine did not fall off because I played with it too much!”
” My, you’re getting to be such a big boy!”
“What? You saw them a thousand times before you were one year old.”
“Little sis, you look a lot different from the other side of the glass.”
In actuality, although I don’t know the original caption, I do know that a detail from this strip is on the dust jacket of Peter Arno’s Lady in the Shower, so that presumably would be the place to look.
“I don’t care if we’re all out of milk. You’ll have to wait until we go to the store!”
There in fact may not be a caption to this one. It’s purported to be a companion to a similar captionless Man In A Shower, which I find funnier.
According to the discussion at Attempted Bloggery, https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2017/05/blog-post-no-2200-peter-arno-drawings.html (scroll about two-thirds of the way down), Arno had a long-standing fascination with cartoons in which a little boy sees a naked auntie in the shower or bath and seemed to think that such pictures were inherently funny. It may well be, as Grawlix suggests, that there was no caption originally.
I finally found my copy of Arno’s book. This comic is in it, and has no caption.
Are you looking for your yellow ducky?
Well, it has some good captions NOW!
I knew I should have bought that shower curtain….
What the matter honey… Do you have to Pee???
“To outgrib” means “to revive a 6-months-old thread with a fresh new post”.
So those of us with email notifications can observe – – The Mome Rath just outgrabe!