Moon over Flagstontown
Hi and Lois, 1/10/23 You know and I know that Trixie Flagston has been doing her thing ("her thing" being sitting unattended on the floor for hours at a time...
Bowling ... the most erotic of pastimes for the divorced man
Slylock Fox, 1/9/24 Foolish animals! Did you really think that you could overthrow the humans and that your dominion over the Earth would be secure? In fact,...
"It's for the drinks!" Oh, ok, that's normal then, I guess
Dick Tracy, 1/8/24 "Wait," you're probably thinking, "Why is that any better? Why is getting back at Dick Tracy by killing his wife somehow easier or less...
Sadly, most health insurance plans don't cover "bonkus of the conkus"
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/7/24 Oh my goodness, Rene's reign of grifting terror is finally at an end, stopped once and for all by the deliberate and heroic efforts...
Daddies, daughters, doctors, etc.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/6/24 Personally, if I had fled in the middle of the night from the people I had defrauded in order to avoid a lawsuit, and also was...
Metapost: Another year, another COTW
Start 2024 off with a bang and with your first (but by no means last!) comment of the week! "Today's Rex Morgan is far more interesting if you read 'CLAP!'...
Hairy beasts
Hagar the Horrible, 1/5/24 Many medieval Scandinavians communities relied on herding for meat and milk, so controlling wolves and other canines was a task...
Hope you like room temperature tap water, buddy, because that's what the Mitchells have on offer
Dick Tracy, 1/4/24 So the goth pasta pun lady is also a stage magician, and this guy on stage with her yelling "Oh, yeah!” is an audience volunteer, and I...
Fun with facial expressions
Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/3/24 Sure, we're being told that this crowd is CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!ing in big red letters, but by their faces, they don't look that...
IT IS 2024 AND THE COMICS CURMUDGEON IS STILL BLOGGING ABOUT COMICS, YOU LUCKY BASTARDS
Happy 2024, everybody! How did you celebrate the recent holiday season? Mary Worth, 12/25/23 Did you, like Mary Worth, place yourself in the role of the Magi...
Last-minute Christmas laffs
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 12/24/23 I guess real Snuffheads like you and me don't need reminding, but the point of the throwaway panels at the top of...
Ominous Christmas
The Lockhorns, 12/23/23 Usually a crinkly smile on Leroy means that he's in the midst of being dramatically drunk, but I'm not quite sure what vibe he's...
Metapost: Not quite vacation COTW
Folks, I'll be taking my traditional long winter's nap next week, but there are still a couple day's worth of comics in the hopper that you'll get enjoy this...
Holly jolly horny Christmas
Gasoline Alley, 12/22/23 OK, I may have to revise my previous statement of approval for Gasoline Alley's wild, no-rules approach to the mall Santa game....
Let's get biblical
Blondie, 12/21/23 Huh, well, I guess "Josh uses his dumb blog about comic strips to talk about the infancy narratives in the Bible" year had to come around...
Soapy catch-ups
Dick Tracy, 12/20/23 So Dick and X. Libris's sword fight ended with X. tumbling to her death from a spiral staircase, which was in a library full of her...
Suburban faces (human and bird)
Blondie, 12/19/23 Of the legacy comics characters out there, Blondie has a less expressive face than most -- I think the word I'd use to describe it most of...
Crying and pouting are fine! Go crazy, everybody!
Dennis the Menace and Gasoline Alley, 12/18/23 Christmas is just a week away, and that means our beloved (?) legacy comic strip characters are starting to...
The buns are also the wrong color, what on Earth is happening
Mary Worth, 12/17/23 Many years ago, something or some collection of things I said on this site convinced some readers that I was a vegetarian, which anyone...
Mostly Christmas quickies
Crock, 12/16/23 The infancy story in the Gospel of Matthew is the one that mentions the Magi, and while it specifies three different gifts they brought to...