Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 08, 2013

Nice cartoon, but I can’t help noticing: Almost every Christmas tree, in every comic strip, has that “X”-shaped wooden base — it’s one of those cartoon conventions, like sweat-drops to show fear (in his great “Lexicon of Comicana,” Mort Walker called those “plewds”). But I have never seen a Christmas tree base like that in real life, ever.