![]() ![]() It stands high above Shinbone Alley, a dingy big city corner where Mehitabel claws out her living.Īrchy is clearly fascinated with Mehitabel and tries to look after her, but it's not easy she's hot tempered and threatens a few times to stomp on him. The show is set in the newspaper building where Archy climbs onto his trusty typewriter to crank out his columns. When I caught the show at Mad Cow on a Saturday night, I was surprised at how many families with children were in the theater. It's not "The Producers" (which played in Orlando last year), but doesn't try to be, and is certainly a lot more sweet, innocent and family-friendly. So what is "Archy and Mehitabel?" A thoroughly delightful and charming musical comedy, to be exact. But over the years, "Archy and Mehitabel" has been obscured by Brooks' better known cinematic efforts. Two years later, they asked a young comic writer named Mel Brooks to rework the play for a 1957 revival. The play began as a 1954 collaboration between writer Joe Darion and composer George Kleinsinger, and had its debut at New York's Town Hall in December 1954. Archy, a free-verse poet, would spend his nights on the keys of Marquis' typewriter banging out the columns, often about his pal Mehitabel, an alley cat who claimed she was Cleopatra in a previous life. These two most unlikely of friends became the subject of Marquis' long running columns. It all started with some old newspaper articles by Don Marquis, a New York writer in the early decades of the last century who won lasting fame in his era as the creator of "Archy and Mehitabel," a series about Archy the cockroach and his "toujours-gai" gal pal, Mehitabel the cat. ![]() Here we are 25 years later attending classes online.Brooks' talent is rich enough that a local theater like Orlando's Mad Cow can revive a play he co-wrote in the early stages of his career, and make it seem as fresh and funny as anything Brooks has done lately. I was a bit suspicious that this must be a hoax, but I verified that Betty #46 really did have Betty as "a student in the futuristic classrooms of 2021." That comic is shockingly prescient about online schooling: "Video monitor must remain uncovered at all times". In 1997 imagination #Onlineclass #OnlineEducation yTyBv5pzSLĮxcept for the size of the webcam, looks pretty accurate… Here’s what Archie Comics predicted about 2021. Since being shared on Friday, the comics strip has exploded online, racking up more than 31.7 'likes' and hundreds of stunning comments. The second segment eerily shows Betty asking her parents to be quiet, reminding them, “video monitor must remain uncovered at all times.” This comics was about Betty and her friends in Riverdale dealing with the struggles of virtual homeschooling! Written by George Gladir, with art by Stan Goldberg, Mike Esposito, Bill Yoshida, and Barry Grossman. “Kids today are so lucky! They’re able to go to school in their own home,” Betty’s father was sketched as saying 24 years ago. In the comic strip, Betty Coopers is seen telling her mother that she has “all of thirty seconds” before school starts, something that hit home for many in recent times, logging in just seconds before classes go live.Īpart from the CRP monitor fitted with a video camera used for attending classes at home and her parents’ futuristic attires - the comics got it pretty much bang on.ĭon't believe it? Check out the post on their official Twitter page. The comics strip features a set-up of remote learning, predicting that in 2021 AD, children will have a proper school experience within the comforts of their homes. Right from Archie Andrews to best friends Betty and Veronica along with Jughead, many of us still have the precious collection stacked up somewhere in their cartons or cupboards. While we must have not imagined this situation ever, an Archie comics strip from 1997 seems to have correctly predicted what schooling would look like in 2021.įor those who grew up in the 1990s, Archie comics form an integral part of our childhood. Almost all educational institutes shifted from traditional methods of teaching to online learning. One of them is the way education is imparted in schools. New Delhi: The coronavirus pandemic has changed a lot of things for us. ![]()
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