“The Bobbsey Twins and Baby May received what is regarded as the most extreme rewrite; it is a story about the Bobbsey family’s adventures trying to find the parents of a foundling baby. Since, by the 1960s, modern social services had rendered the original story utterly implausible, an entirely new novel was written about the twins’ adventures with a baseball-playing baby elephant.” wikipedia
I despise how almost every Internet “news” article dealing with public nudity has a reference to being “cheeky.” Does anyone even SAY “cheeky” anymore?
Is it me or has Cat and Girl always been Charlie Brown with an off-the-wall anthropomorphic cat instead of an off-the-wall dog and an intelligent but morose girl instead of an intelligent but morose boy?
[...] and girl, radio I noted this one on vagabondscrawl but have decided to make reference here too: Long Time Listener, a Cat and Girl comic that is true. I especially like how the radio speaks back to her when Girl [...]
What are you, psychotic? They’re both in black and white. They contain human and non-human speaking parts. And that’s… it.
Cat is *nothing* like Snoopy. Girl is *NOTHING* *WHATSOEVER* like Charlie Brown. Dorothy, thank heavens, is nothing like Charles Shulz. Particularly towards the end, when he could only bitterly rant through the comics about how “underground” comics were the end of the universe.
What’s a job where you can not do too much, but still act superior? Hipsters love being librarians.
serious? you know nothing about libraries and how they function. this is the type of recurring comment that pisses librarians off to no end. in fact, im at work at the library right now and almost couldnt contain my outrage
The last panel is reminiscent of an Onion headline a friend of mine came up with: a picture of Peter Griffin or whatever with the line: “Animated Cartoons: 100 Years Of Not Being Just For Kids Anymore”
i never read the bobsey twins. i was a nancy drew and hardy boys fan. and my librarian in school wasnt like any of the descriptions here. she seemed pretty normal. the librarian in our city library was a mexican. mexican american. hispanic. uh latina. screw it she was brown. im brown too. i prefer hispanic.
I actually listened to that story about the dancing librarians on NPR. I don’t remember being so much outraged by the cliché intro but more by the fact that someone actually considered it “news”. I, unfortunately, did not have the radio talk back to me.
While both C.B. and G. are non-sexualized, etc characters snoopy was a f*k-g mime. I mean g-d d*m!7 cat is soooo much more than snoopy could ever hope to be. (a fuging mime)
[...] July, 2009 by Genneaux I’m pretty sure Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl must have heard the same cringe-worthy NPR story that I did when ALA was in [...]
I assume the stereotypical librarian was inspired by the Librarian Action Figure, seen here: http://www.mcphee.com/items/11247.html Unsurprisingly, the model for the Librarian Action Figure was Nancy Pearl, also a frequent quest commentator on NPR
“Not do too much …” Sigh, as I wipe off the dripping sweat after hauling folding chairs down the attic steps, make coffee and slice cheese while people are filing in for a meeting, with the phone hugged to my ear telling an irate patron I’m sorry but the book you ordered last week hasn’t come yet, after I walked a bike in the parade on Saturday and drove over an hour on Sunday to pick up an educational kit for a program that was given out to someone else in error … I guess I’m still looking for the library job where you “don’t do too much…”
“By the 1950s, movies had established the stereotype of librarians as “spinsters” and “eggheads”.[1] Thus, female movie librarians are usually unmarried, prim, and introverted. They are usually young and may be attractive, but dress drably and are sexually repressed. In movies such as It’s a Wonderful Life and The Music Man, their careers are characterized as a “fate worse than death”.” (thanks wikipedia)
“What’s a job where you can not do too much, but still act superior? Hipsters love being librarians.”
Try shadowing one for a day, Brian. You’d be surprised how much we do, and how little support, financial or otherwise, we often receive to do it. Most of us are in the field for love, despite having to deal with people like you on a daily basis.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
“The Bobbsey Twins and Baby May received what is regarded as the most extreme rewrite; it is a story about the Bobbsey family’s adventures trying to find the parents of a foundling baby. Since, by the 1960s, modern social services had rendered the original story utterly implausible, an entirely new novel was written about the twins’ adventures with a baseball-playing baby elephant.” wikipedia
July 17th, 2009 at 12:44 am
When I think of librarians, I think of how much like the Internet they’d be if they were drunk and wouldn’t shut up.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Now do one about how knitters aren’t just grandmas and gay men, please.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:13 am
The Bobbseys made a big impression on me. From memory: Bert, Nan, Freddie, Flossie. That’s going back 40 year and one serious head injury ago.
July 17th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Hilarious! (Standard “it’s funny cause it’s true” statement inserted here.)
July 17th, 2009 at 6:06 am
[...] Cat and Girl [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 8:07 am
I despise how almost every Internet “news” article dealing with public nudity has a reference to being “cheeky.” Does anyone even SAY “cheeky” anymore?
July 17th, 2009 at 8:23 am
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July 17th, 2009 at 8:36 am
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106561675
why NPR?
July 17th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I think this is about to become the 4th Cat and Girl strip posted on my office door.
July 17th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Ah, National Pentagon Radio.
July 17th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Freakin’ sweet stereo.
July 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Is it me or has Cat and Girl always been Charlie Brown with an off-the-wall anthropomorphic cat instead of an off-the-wall dog and an intelligent but morose girl instead of an intelligent but morose boy?
Just saiyan, Goku.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
What’s a job where you can not do too much, but still act superior? Hipsters love being librarians.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
If the Babysitter’s Club are the Ramones, then the Bobbsey Twins are…?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
[...] Long Time Listener [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
You might think video games are just for nerdy teenaged boys, but …
July 17th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
[...] and girl, radio I noted this one on vagabondscrawl but have decided to make reference here too: Long Time Listener, a Cat and Girl comic that is true. I especially like how the radio speaks back to her when Girl [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I heard that story/intro (bookcart dancing at ALA, right?) on my way home from work, and had the exact same reaction.
You’d think that NPR, of all news outlets, might know something about librarians. Or not.
July 17th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Comparing Cat and Girl to Peanuts?
What are you, psychotic? They’re both in black and white. They contain human and non-human speaking parts. And that’s… it.
Cat is *nothing* like Snoopy. Girl is *NOTHING* *WHATSOEVER* like Charlie Brown. Dorothy, thank heavens, is nothing like Charles Shulz. Particularly towards the end, when he could only bitterly rant through the comics about how “underground” comics were the end of the universe.
July 17th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I just like the way the newsreader actually responds to Girl.
July 17th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
What’s a job where you can not do too much, but still act superior? Hipsters love being librarians.
serious? you know nothing about libraries and how they function. this is the type of recurring comment that pisses librarians off to no end. in fact, im at work at the library right now and almost couldnt contain my outrage
July 17th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
It’s Renee Montagne, right?
July 17th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
The last panel is reminiscent of an Onion headline a friend of mine came up with: a picture of Peter Griffin or whatever with the line: “Animated Cartoons: 100 Years Of Not Being Just For Kids Anymore”
July 17th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Cat and Girl may be different, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out Peanuts was one of Dorothy’s inspirations… *everybody* was inspired by Peanuts.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:30 am
i never read the bobsey twins. i was a nancy drew and hardy boys fan. and my librarian in school wasnt like any of the descriptions here. she seemed pretty normal. the librarian in our city library was a mexican. mexican american. hispanic. uh latina. screw it she was brown. im brown too. i prefer hispanic.
July 18th, 2009 at 7:47 am
I’m a librarian and the only one of our librarians who dressed like that for work was Matt when he decided to come in cross-dressed. heh.
July 19th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I actually listened to that story about the dancing librarians on NPR. I don’t remember being so much outraged by the cliché intro but more by the fact that someone actually considered it “news”. I, unfortunately, did not have the radio talk back to me.
July 20th, 2009 at 10:17 am
While both C.B. and G. are non-sexualized, etc characters snoopy was a f*k-g mime. I mean g-d d*m!7 cat is soooo much more than snoopy could ever hope to be. (a fuging mime)
July 20th, 2009 at 10:24 am
[...] July, 2009 by Genneaux I’m pretty sure Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl must have heard the same cringe-worthy NPR story that I did when ALA was in [...]
July 20th, 2009 at 10:28 am
[...] “When you think of librarians…” (comic strip) [...]
July 20th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
i jorpho.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
darnit. that’s s’posed to be
i heart jorpho.
‘pparently the pointy brackets hides wordses.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I assume the stereotypical librarian was inspired by the Librarian Action Figure, seen here: http://www.mcphee.com/items/11247.html Unsurprisingly, the model for the Librarian Action Figure was Nancy Pearl, also a frequent quest commentator on NPR
July 20th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
“Not do too much …” Sigh, as I wipe off the dripping sweat after hauling folding chairs down the attic steps, make coffee and slice cheese while people are filing in for a meeting, with the phone hugged to my ear telling an irate patron I’m sorry but the book you ordered last week hasn’t come yet, after I walked a bike in the parade on Saturday and drove over an hour on Sunday to pick up an educational kit for a program that was given out to someone else in error … I guess I’m still looking for the library job where you “don’t do too much…”
July 20th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I have to agree with an earlier poster, awesome stereo.
July 20th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
“By the 1950s, movies had established the stereotype of librarians as “spinsters” and “eggheads”.[1] Thus, female movie librarians are usually unmarried, prim, and introverted. They are usually young and may be attractive, but dress drably and are sexually repressed. In movies such as It’s a Wonderful Life and The Music Man, their careers are characterized as a “fate worse than death”.” (thanks wikipedia)
July 21st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
[...] http://catandgirl.com/?p=2115 [...]
July 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Kris I couldn’t agree more!!! We knitters are more then just old ladies and gay men, we are also nerds and cat women!!
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:30 am
Hey, librarians are more than public librarians too!
Why do all these “debates” always confine themselves to one field of librariandom? :(
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:52 pm
“What’s a job where you can not do too much, but still act superior? Hipsters love being librarians.”
Try shadowing one for a day, Brian. You’d be surprised how much we do, and how little support, financial or otherwise, we often receive to do it. Most of us are in the field for love, despite having to deal with people like you on a daily basis.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
and how Canada is always “our neighbor to the north” – hey, it’s BIG, you can find it on a map if you’re not sure where it is.
July 26th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Just so you know, I work for NPR and have just purchased a print of this comic to hang prominently in my office area :)
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I want to hear the news stories start with “Webster’s Dictionary defines Librarian as …”
August 7th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Wham! Kapow!
August 10th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
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August 21st, 2009 at 2:28 pm
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October 16th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
My highschool librarian was the cutest thing in the building.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Librarians are not things.
March 14th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
ahaha! applauding.
April 28th, 2010 at 10:15 am
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