Cow and Boy
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Cow and Boy is a comic strip
created by Mark Leiknes and distributed by United Features Syndicate that began its run on January 2, 2006.
The strip centers on a boy named Billy and his best friend Cow, who live on Billy's family's farm
. Apparently, only Billy can speak with Cow (though Martin at times has as well), but neither seems to mind as they share a vivid sense of imagination and adventure.
Other featured characters include Billy's mother, father, sister Tracy, Billy's friend, Martin, and Smart Billy, Billy's tutor.
Ongoing themes include:
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
created by Mark Leiknes and distributed by United Features Syndicate that began its run on January 2, 2006.
The strip centers on a boy named Billy and his best friend Cow, who live on Billy's family's farm
Farm
A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...
. Apparently, only Billy can speak with Cow (though Martin at times has as well), but neither seems to mind as they share a vivid sense of imagination and adventure.
Other featured characters include Billy's mother, father, sister Tracy, Billy's friend, Martin, and Smart Billy, Billy's tutor.
Ongoing themes include:
- Billy's family's concern about his close friendship with Cow and his need for more human contact.
- Billy and Cow creating fantasticFantasticThe Fantastic is a literary term that describes a quality of other literary genres, and, in some cases, is used as a genre in and of itself, although in this case it is often conflated with the Supernatural. The term was originated in the structuralist theory of critic Tzvetan Todorov in his work...
moments. - Billy and Cow enjoying doing nothing at all.
- Billy's sister and her annoyanceSibling rivalrySibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity among children, blood-related or not.Siblings generally spend more time together during childhood than they do with parents. The sibling bond is often complicated and is influenced by factors such as parental treatment, birth order, personality,...
with Billy and Cow. - Cow bringing an outsider's perspective to Billy and Martin's games.
- Billy's concern over the state of the world (I.E. global warmingGlobal warmingGlobal warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
)