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[nickpiketx]

In the Sunday Comics for April 27 I was reading LUANN by Greg Evans and we see LuAnn on the bed reading a glamour Mag and her friend is on the floor at the foot of the bed reading a Time Mag. You can see on the back cover of the Time an ad for the Smart car and a drawing of the car. Unless Greg was using a real Mag with a real ad for the smart on the back cover then I would say that Greg Evans must be a Smart Fan. I would scan it and post, but I would probably be breaking about 50 laws.

[Dave Van]

here it is...................
http://www.comics.com/comics/luann/

ps.....a Smart also showed up on American Dad tonight too!

[SmartBob]

WOW, how did you spot that? Very cool!

[Big Panda]

apparently Imissed it......

[Big Panda]

you know a smart is small when you can't even find it in the comic strip it's suppose to be in......

[JPaul]

Well, I saw it in yesterday's strip, in color: it was the back page of the Time magazine.
But now, it's Monday's strip...

[SnakeFarm]

Originally Posted by nickpiketx

...I would say that Greg Evans must be a Smart Fan.

I would say that Greg Evans thinks that Smart Cars are just part of the election year ground-swell of negative news from angry "progressive" media venues. I might even say it a bit more articulatly if I were not late for work.

[Old smart]

It looks to me like a lot of intent went into the cartoon. Why would the cartoonist choose to show the back cover of the news magazine when by reversing the frame the front cover could have been shown? And why is the shown side in such detail, even the form of the rounded lettering? It is the most detailed thing anywhere in the frame. And why a smart, when something else could easily have been used, front cover or back? Is it a metaphor for what is wrong and what may be right?

The character reading the news magazine is portraying “gloomy, recession, troubled, downturn and pessimistic.” I don’t think the back cover is so much an additional notation that the US auto industry is going to Hell in a hand basket or anything political, but more broadly that our national woes stem from not thinking and acting “smart.”

I guess it is up to we “smart people” to save the country from itself!

[smartyPantz]

Wow I read that comic last night and TOTALLY missed that!!

Awesome!

I like Luann!

[Old smart]

Originally Posted by Old smart

It looks to me like a lot of intent went into the cartoon. Why would the cartoonist choose to show the back cover of the news magazine when by reversing the frame the front cover could have been shown? And why is the shown side in such detail, even the form of the rounded lettering? It is the most detailed thing anywhere in the frame. And why a smart, when something else could easily have been used, front cover or back? Is it a metaphor for what is wrong and what may be right?

The character reading the news magazine is portraying “gloomy, recession, troubled, downturn and pessimistic.” I don’t think the back cover is so much an additional notation that the US auto industry is going to Hell in a hand basket or anything political, but more broadly that our national woes stem from not thinking and acting “smart.”

I guess it is up to we “smart people” to save the country from itself!

Just for interest I emailed Greg Evans this morning and posited basically the above and asked if I "got" it or "missed" it. This what he returned:

"Dave,

Nothing that complex or intellectual. Just me, amusing myself. I
often put little "eye candy" things in my strips; images or words
that interest me. The smart definitely interests me - in fact, I'm on
the reservation list.

-greg"