Comments on: Allison Barrows discusses ‘PreTeena’

By: Eloise

Eloise — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:30:42 +0000

Good morning. Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I am from Slovenia and learning to speak English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “By dailyearner in public bookmarks with tax taxes turbo turbotax turbotaxes.”

With love :), Eloise.

By: David Shead

David Shead — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:49:38 +0000

Very sorry Preteena has ended. We (my wife & I) oldies (in our 60s) in New Zealand have always considered it the very best cartoon strip. Many thanks for several years of most delightful entertainment. We think Stick is the greatest!!

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:17:01 +0000

If you have amnesia when you post, is that still considered posting anonymously?

Wonder if any of those aliens have been able to lift Excalibur? And I thought aliens only visited our american hillbillies? I thought we had exclusive rights on ET’s??

By: Rod McKie

Rod McKie — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:27:53 +0000

King Arthur was a real Scottish king from Camelon, outside Falkirk. It is an area frequented by UFOs, which I’m sure will interest a lot of the posters here. I just get that feeling.

By: Wiley Miller

Wiley Miller — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:56:53 +0000

Just out of curiosity, why did you feel the need to post your comments anonymously?

Perhaps you didn’t read the rules of this forum.

By: Me Anonymous

Me Anonymous — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:58:32 +0000

Please don’t end your strip! it’s the best one in the whole of the U.S.! I was soooooo sad when i heard it was ending! I barely *a year or two* started reading it! it was amazing and i loved it!!!

By: Mike Grace

Mike Grace — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:28:06 +0000

I will miss Teena. I have a somewhat strange question — was her given name Teena, or is that short for something like Christina?

By: Ian Hunsche

Ian Hunsche — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:06:55 +0000

Hi Allison,

Well, it had to end sometime…I’ll miss your strip with other good ones that have retired (Calvin comes to mind) and miss it as I surf through some of the other fodder some of the web-sites pass off as good cartoons.

One last thought, I’d like to commend you on your courage to have the Keenes attend church. I’m sure you had some challenges and debate on that one. The only other cartoon I can think of that does that is “The Simpsons”.

Best of luck in your future work!

By: Molly Stewart

Molly Stewart — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:59:15 +0000

Hi Allison,

I will really miss Preteena — it is (was) my favorite strip. Perhaps your career path will lead you back to it some day. (I’m hoping for the same for Bill Watterson, my previous favorite cartoonist.)

Also, I just have to say that you’ve got a great attitude about the strip’s detractors. (Who are, I’m sure, far, far fewer in number than your admirers!) Some folks out there may be taking cartoons just a wee bit too seriously. Thank you for sharing your creativity, artistic style, empathetic and wildly funny humor with us as long as you did.

By: Bruce Dearborn Walker

Bruce Dearborn Walker — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:45:15 +0000

I just wanted to let you know how much I liked Preteena. I am sad that it is ending, but I know how hard it is to maintain quality of something creative, and if you feel you have said all you have to say with this strip, I respect your decision. Better to go out while you’re still great, like Calvin or Bloom County, than to hang on going through the motions for the paycheck.

Good luck in your next endeavour.