Monday, June 2, 2008

one big happy

One of my favorite comic strips is One Big Happy, which is about a hilarious little girl.


The best part is "You have the right to rename science." You have to love a child who keeps up with her poststructuralism.


I think there's something so queer about Ruthie and her tree Suzette. I don't know, I can't quite put it into words.

Most of the daily comics are absolutely hopeless when it comes to popular music (anyone read Curtis?), but obviously Ruthie has a pretty good handle on it.

I've got a bunch more of these I'd like to post, but I don't have the time right now. So there might be a part two.

2 comments:

christine said...

Maybe I'm reading too much Virginia Woolf, but, yes, there is something immensely queer about Ruthie and Suzette... something about Ruthie's sense of admiration for Suzette...

Spencer said...

Sometimes I think that Ruthie has a crush on Suzette, like when she calls her "honey." But more often, I think that it's like Suzette is her child. Like, why have a kid, right? That's for straight people. Ruthie's just going to have a tree. It could have been a cat, but instead it's a tree.