[johnb3]

Hi Everyone,
Off and on for the last 10 years or so, I've been trying to find a comic strip that I read in the mid-eighties, as I recall (though it could have been later -- or earlier    ) In the strip, a little boy is telling his mom(?) that he had been playing with the cows (or talking to them). His mother replies, "You know you can't play with (or talk to) cows. In the final panel, the boy and a cow are hugging each other, shedding tears. The boy is telling his friend, "My mom says I can't play with (talk to) you anymore."

I found this quite moving -- and continue to think about it. About all of the ways that we can condition the young out of their innocence, their imagination, their creativity, their connectedness and their wisdom.

Does this strip sound familiar to anyone?

[The Australian Panther]

Lots of luck finding it. It's amazing how something like that hits a nerve and stays in the mind for a long time.

Cheers! 

[Andrew999]

Wild guess - but was it "Cow and Boy" - a comic strip by Mark Leiknes?

[johnb3]

Thanks for the responses!

Tried Cow and Boy at someone's suggestion about a year or so ago. Unfortunately, not that strip.