Chocolate ice cream + white shirt + the tropics = bold move, son

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/24/13 You know, sometimes the tropes built into a strip’s visual aesthetic become so all-pervasive that probably the artists don’t even think about their meaning anymore. For instance: almost all the clothes worn by the denizens of Hootin’ Holler sport visible patches; the community is isolated from the worldwide trading [...]

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