9 Chickweed Lane

[beecee]

Ok, maybe I am a bit more dense than the normal human being....but for the life of me what the heck is that cartoon all about???

Our local newspaper is only delivered Tues & Thursdays now and we get 2 days worth of funny pages.....so I guess I've been reading that comic more over the past few years.

What am I missing?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

. . . What am I missing?

The cartoon.

 

[fronobulax]

Can't help. I don't see it in my market. Are you asking about a specific cartoon or just the over-arcing story? For example, asking what Peanuts or Pogo are about is not always a question with an obvious or trivial answer.

 

[beecee]

Funny story about Peanuts. I used to read it to my daughter every Sunday while she was an infant. Over and over again. She loved to listen to me read it to her. After a few "takes" she could read it back to me a few days later. She would love to sit in my lap and recite the words she had memorized.

One Sunday we're sitting together and I pull out the new paper and grab the funnies. She starts reading Peanuts out loud to me. It hit me half way through, she had never seen this strip before....dam* it she was reading at 3!!!

I held my breath until she was done and them called her Mom into the room to witness as she did it again.

Amazing....she's been a Snoopy fan all her life

 

[beecee]

Can't help. I don't see it in my market. Are you asking about a specific cartoon or just the over-arcing story? For example, asking what Peanuts or Pogo are about is not always a question with an obvious or trivial answer.

I would say the latter but it is so hard to describe I can't even start. I guess ya have to be there...or it has to be there, (in your paper).

 

[FNG]

9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for May 23, 2022 | GoComics.com

View the comic strip for 9 Chickweed Lane by cartoonist Brooke McEldowney created May 23, 2022 available on GoComics.com

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[fronobulax]

People either love or hate the comic, according to the internet. I chose not to bring my research into that discussion here because, in spite of the comic being published in newspapers, the discussions stray from family friendly pretty quickly.

 

[7GuildsandanSG]

I've seen it for years in LA. Seems like a light-hearted soap opera type of thing. Rom-com? Don't care for it but I know it's been controversial.

 

[Bill Ashton]

"A rarity in the comics, 9 Chickweed Lane spotlights music and dance with superb artistry that complements Brooke McEldowney's strong-minded characters. A popular comic strip about three generations of family, 9 Chickweed Lane features strong characters, flights of fancy and an intuitive grasp of all kinds of relationships.

The strip was recognized in 2006 for its brilliant artistry and intellectual humor when it was named Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society. The strip appears in 60 newspapers worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Calgary Sun and Columbus Dispatch.

Central character Edda Burber is dancing to the beat of a different drummer these days as McEldowney focuses 9 Chickweed Lane more on the story of a young woman who moves away from home to perform with a prestigious metropolitan ballet company in New York City. Although it may seem like a completely new strip, 9 Chickweed Lane is peopled with very familiar friends, like furry feline Solange, and Edda's childhood friend and recent love interest, Amos."

 

[davismanLV]

Funny story about Peanuts. I used to read it to my daughter every Sunday while she was an infant. Over and over again. She loved to listen to me read it to her. After a few "takes" she could read it back to me a few days later. She would love to sit in my lap and recite the words she had memorized.

One Sunday we're sitting together and I pull out the new paper and grab the funnies. She starts reading Peanuts out loud to me. It hit me half way through, she had never seen this strip before....dam* it she was reading at 3!!!

I held my breath until she was done and them called her Mom into the room to witness as she did it again.

Amazing....she's been a Snoopy fan all her life

I was the same. The weekend Funnies would come and I'd make someone, father/brother/sister/mother, read it to me and I'd quiz them on the words and how they were spelled. We did that for most of 3 and by 4 I was reading them by myself with an occasional "What's this word?" thrown in. School was a breeze for the early years!

 

[fronobulax]

I've seen it for years in LA. Seems like a light-hearted soap opera type of thing. Rom-com? Don't care for it but I know it's been controversial.

Recently it was dropped from the LA Times because a reference to a Japanese Zero fighter aircraft was made using a shorthand that is now deemed an ethnic slur.