This is an actual Mother Goose and Grimm cartoon, clipped from the newspaper more than fifteen years ago and stuck on my fridge for at least that long. It always got a good cheap laugh, especially since you could actually grab the clip and turn it over if you didn’t believe your eyes, seeing that The Adventures Of Spider-Man were printed on the other side.
Never mind that this was just the first two panels of a longer Sunday strip, which then showed that Mother was actually dreaming she was on a beach, with the waves LAPPing at her toes. Still and all, knowing how conservative and paranoid the publishing business tends to be—never mind the newspaper publishing business, circa 1997—I find it more than a little astonishing that this somehow slipped under the radar.
Life’s a joke! Really!
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