For the birds
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Theosophy Tuesday
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It’s the Comics Curmudgeon 2026 summer fundraiser!
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Hateful Monday, meatless lasagna
Rhymes with Orange, 7/20/26 Lady lets herself be intimidated by inanimate objects. Gonna be a long day. Six Chix, 7/20/26 Unhealthy, infected, diseased,...
Sin and redemption (mostly sin)
Family Circus, 7/19/26 Dolly, thou shalt not mock this sign of God's displeasure, neither by crude sophistry nor by mooning His works. Slylock Fox (panel),...
I don't think Blondie ordered that sundae for herself
Blondie, 7/18/26 Blondie likes to make extremely on-the-nose jokes about obscure holidays. But they usually show up on the day itself, and National Ice Cream...
Metapost: Birthday COTW
Yeah that's right, it's my birthday today, I'm [mumblety mumble] years old, and I've received this greatest gift of all: A comment of the week: "I love that...
Bummer Friday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/17/26 Wow, this is actually really depressing to me. I thought that Uncle (?) Rene was a mentor in scammery to his nieces -- but part of...
NAS-CAR MERCH-AN-DISE (clap clap clapclapclap)
Gearhead Gertie, 7/16/26 Really love Gertie's gobsmacked look in the top panel here. Sure, she's been dutifully putting away cash for retirement for her...
Wednesday is for tragic antiheroes
The Phantom, 7/15/26 Ahh, it looks like the promised Nomad-Python supervillain teamup really is happening, coordinated by the mysterious "Ignis Vindicta"...
Depressing Tuesday
Shoe, 7/14/26 I appreciate that this joke could've worked fine by just saying that ol' Uncle Herm was a lousy bowler; but no, we also gotta work in the fact...
Really had to resist including some family tree diagrams for this one
Hagar the Horrible, 7/13/26 In The City of God, St. Augustine famously tells a story of a pirate who had been captured by Alexander the Great: "When that...
Mostly AI Sunday
Blondie, 7/12/26 Back in early 2024, Dithers had to regretfully report that DithersCo wasn't using AI tools to boost productivity, with his employees mostly...
Strong labor solidarity among comics characters really would solve a lot of problems
Beetle Bailey, 7/11/26 The thing about the daily comics is that they're still drawn as if the black and white version is canonical, even though probably most...
Metapost: The time is COTW. The COTW is now: COTW time
OK that post title doesn't make tons of sense, but ... COTW time! Now! "Maybe it's just that the standards of menace have been so raised by the likes of...
Mostly one-panel Friday
Alice, 7/10/26 This is honestly a perfect Alice strip. The actual joke, while not groundbreaking or anything, definitely made me laugh, mostly because of the...
Nostalgia, drugs, etc.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/9/26 As predicted, the scam twins (who are named Jean and Jane, I don't think anyone predicted that) are indeed the nieces of notorious...
People love daughters ... daughters who KILL
Judge Parker, 7/8/26 Hey, remember when Neddy tried to be a TV writer, and managed to sell Netflix a pilot about April, the violent, terrifying CIA assassin...
Do NOT give the "Daddy Daze" daddy an axe
Daddy Daze, 7/7/26 One of my favorite aspects of The Shining, which is one of my favorite all-time movies, is that for most of the movie's runtime it's not...
This goes beyond bothersome. I alone am brave enough to call out Heathcliff on his nonsense
Dick Tracy, 7/6/26 This Dick Tracy storyline isn't just about the seedy, underground world of hard-core video "gamers"; it also introduces the strip's...