A simple, innocent little strip for today. If this were a populist, internet humour driven strip, Wendy would probably be crying ‘squeee!’ or something inane in that last panel.
School Spirit will never use the made up word ‘squee!’ in any of it’s strips!
Squeee! :D
Or in Japanese: Kyaaa~ (^_^)
Exactly. You won’t see those made up words either! :P
We Aussies make up our own words, eh? :D
Children do sometimes use words of their own invention. So in that vein, let’s hear some Aussie made-up words. :P
Well, that all depends on what sort of words I overhear in the playground from the kids that don’t involve characters from the top row of the keyboard! :)
It’s nice to see at least one comic that isn’t following in the cardboard cut out mold that so many other comics do. School Spirit has a lot more class! It’s also nice to see a comic that doesn’t use the beaten to death classic Japanimation/anime style. As I said – School Spirit = Class.
I actually don’t understand most of that anime style symbolism, myself. It’s an art style and sub culture I’ve just never connected with. I also am well aware that, if I were, I’m sure I’d have a larger audience! :)
But not a better one.
Don’t know about Oz, but over here public drinking fountains were reasonably common in Wendy’s day. Especially in places like parks & public gardens.
Sometimes quite elaborate structures. Though they tended to be downward pointing rather than the modern “fountain” style.
A lot of them have been shut down since water privatisation and the introduction of water meters, although there’s still some working ones in the parks.
I’m working on the fact that Wendy’s old school in the 1930s was out in the sticks and not in the cities and that bubbler sorts of drinking fountains, if they were around Down Here in those days, hadn’t made it out to the country towns by then.
I’m also working on the assumption that none of you lot will ever find out if that’s true or not! :D
Now I’m going to ask the 93 year old I drive around sometimes if there were drinking fountains where I live in the 1930s. Now I’m curious! :P
Buggrit!
And, welcome, Crystal! :)
I was researching it myself – nothing conclusive as of yet. I think I’m going to just have to look up something like “The history of water fountains in Australia.” SOMEONE has to have written that book :-D