I’d say the target audience of newspaper comic Arlo and Janis readers, they were intended to be a boomer comic when the comic strip launched in 1985. obviously like almost all comic strips, the characters haven’t aged so, when the comic strip was written they were boomers in 1985.
It is worth noting that the comic specifically is noted as being kind of a reversal of normal boomer humor, as the normal tropes of comedy in that era was more on being annoyed with your spouse etc… and it more often actually made the relationship mostly healthy.
Well, turns out people in different generations, while they may on the whole share various traits, are in fact individuals with different life experiences, temperaments, and attitudes.
That said I am seeing my own Gen-X peers turning “boomer”: entitled assholes who also attempt to turn the abuse and neglect we survived into virtues. I think a lot of this is completely literal survivor bias, but also “survivors” in terms of who gets seen and heard.
Not that I assume the poster knows this, but they’re accurate on a technicality. The cartoonist responsible, Jimmy Johnson, is actually of boomer age (born April 20th 1952), so this is a boomer comic.
2009 is “boomer”?
Arlo and Janis’ author seems to be of the Baby Boomer generation.
Assuming he graduated at 17-18, he’d have been born around 1952.
TIL all the boomers died before 2009
sorry, dad, you’re dead to me now
I’d say the target audience of newspaper comic Arlo and Janis readers, they were intended to be a boomer comic when the comic strip launched in 1985. obviously like almost all comic strips, the characters haven’t aged so, when the comic strip was written they were boomers in 1985.
It is worth noting that the comic specifically is noted as being kind of a reversal of normal boomer humor, as the normal tropes of comedy in that era was more on being annoyed with your spouse etc… and it more often actually made the relationship mostly healthy.
YOU SHUT UP DON’T MAKE ME THINK OF AAAA calvin and hobbes is not a boomer comic but bill watterson is a boomer. discuss.
Well, turns out people in different generations, while they may on the whole share various traits, are in fact individuals with different life experiences, temperaments, and attitudes.
That said I am seeing my own Gen-X peers turning “boomer”: entitled assholes who also attempt to turn the abuse and neglect we survived into virtues. I think a lot of this is completely literal survivor bias, but also “survivors” in terms of who gets seen and heard.
i’m just feeling verklempt about it is all
Fair.
Boomers were Hippies first, then Yuppies in the 1980s…
Not that I assume the poster knows this, but they’re accurate on a technicality. The cartoonist responsible, Jimmy Johnson, is actually of boomer age (born April 20th 1952), so this is a boomer comic.
How is that a technicality? It’s a boomer artist making boomer comics.
and it’s one of the better ones, too.