Perfect thing to mindlessly chew while staring at your phone
Gasoline Alley, 3/25/23 Not that there's much by way of competition, but Ida Knoe, the evil talking doll who can travel through time, is now officially my...
Friday is for a sense of unease
Dennis the Menace, 3/24/23 Ha ha, that is not the face of a lady who is amused or a little perturbed at the memory of of what went down during her last visit...
Problems and solutions
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/23/23 I think it’s worthwhile to occasionally reflect on how weird the newspaper comic Snuffy Smith is, as a cultural...
Cries for help
Beetle Bailey, 3/22/23 Miss Buxley's baggy, shabby outfit today is going to disappoint both General Halftrack and the legions of Beetle Bailey fans who find...
Can't believe they're trapped on a boat with that guy
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/21/23 Ha ha, I was right, this cruise is going to get a healthy dose of Mud Mountain's musical scheming! I'm taking "privy" in that last...
Monday is for the children
Daddy Daze, 3/20/23 OK, I know we're all in agreement that the Daddy Daze daddy is deep in the throes of some kind of kind of seriously delusional state, but...
Deadly Sunday
Mary Worth, 3/19/23 It’s true and tragic that the veterinarians have higher than typical rates of death by suicide, and it’s also great that there’s a...
Is it March where Dustin and Meg are, do you think
Dustin, 3/18/23 A fun fact is that Dustin premiered in January 2010, at the low point of the Great Recession, when unemployment was at nearly 10% and entry-...
Metapost: Top o' the COTW to ye
This week’s top comment won’t drive all the snakes out of your peaceful island, but it will make you laugh: "I'm so glad that Slylock does the dopey, overly...
TGIF, fellow office drones!!!!
Marvin, 3/17/23 Most people would tell you that Marvin’s main innovation is that it’s a newspaper comic strip that’s mostly about peeing and pooping, but...
"Massing," "mobilization," same diff
Crock, 3/16/23 A fun fact is that this is literally how World War I started -- or, I guess, is literally why World War I couldn't be stopped after it started...
Does Hootin' Holler actually have a golf course, or are they just in an open field somewhere
Family Circus, 3/15/23 I don’t have kids, but I am given to understand that your child handing you a crumb-covered piece of garbage and explaining how its...
All the delivery guys can tell they aren't getting any tips
Blondie, 3/14/23 Normally, the purpose of Blondie is to deliver laughs to comics lovers everywhere assure its readers, who are on average shockingly old,...
Stay Thirsty, friends
Hi and Lois, 3/13/23 You know, I’ve often wondered how lovable disheveled loser Thirsty manages to hold down his job at Foofram Industries, but today we...
Best Makeup and Hairstyling goes to the comic strip Blondie for somehow doing [gestures vaguely at Dagwood] that
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/12/23 Barney Google more or less vanished from his namesake strip in the 1930s as it pivoted to cruel jokes about...
Wow, just an out-of-nowhere slam on the Ritz Brothers
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/11/23 Hank Jr. and his new bride live with comic book artist "Horrible" Hank Sr., and the most likely interpretation of today's strip...
Metapost: Towering COTW
Folks!!!! Are YOU in or near Los Angeles right now? Do YOU want to hear Josie Riesman, author of the upcoming Vince McMahon book Ringmaster, talk about the...
Friday (mostly) one-liners
Blondie, 3/10/23 Newspaper comics version of horseshoe theory: when new-look Mark Trail and eternally old-look Blondie come to the same position on...
Aggressions, macro and micro
Gil Thorp, 3/9/23 We all of course remember that time that Mudlark basketball star Ted Pearse was living in a homeless shelter and the fans of one of their...
Dagwood's making direct eye contact with the reader, daring you to imagine his awful clothing line
Blondie, 3/8/23 I’m intrigued here by the transition from light to dark between panels two and three – how much time has elapsed, and what conversation, if...