Mud Mountain Murphy is also a threat to native bird species

$ · March 13, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 3/13/24 I'm not a huge fan of "Miss Buxley is the only sexually available female at Camp Swampy and the men all line up in hopes of being...

Two Tuesday quickies

$ · March 12, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 3/12/24 The big news down in Gasoline Alley is that City Hall is finally compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act! It also rejects...

Pre-Daddy Warbucks

$ · March 11, 2024

Dick Tracy, 3/11/24 OK, fine, after my uninformed joking yesterday, I am back to reading the comics so you don't have to and can inform you that (a) these...

Goodbye darkness my old friend

$ · March 10, 2024

Dustin, 3/10/24 Hey kids, let Grandpa Josh tell you about the Do-Not-Call List! Starting in the mid '00s in the United States, you could put your phone...

Does he think the pigs are, like, collectivized or something

$ · March 9, 2024

Shoe, 3/9/24 The bird-people of Shoe generally have two emotional registers: horrified and very depressed. So I'm pleased that Shoe has discovered a third...

Metapost: Friday time = COTW time

$ · March 8, 2024

It's the freakin' weekend, baby, and that means it's time for the comment of the week! "It looks like they're paying Grawlix Theft Auto.” --taig Your runners...

TWO! TWO FULL PANELS OF THORPSMOOCH!

$ · March 8, 2024

Gil Thorp, 3/8/24 Gil Thorp may be a somewhat manic strip at times, but never say it doesn't play a long narrative game. Remember the comely bartendress Gil...

Sweet gamer chair, Alexander

$ · March 7, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 3/7/24 Man, here's a story of our modern world for ya: You head down to City Hall, because they're trying to rename your town, because of...

Mmm ... horse

$ · March 5, 2024

Blondie, 3/6/24 Personally, I think the best way to celebrate National Dentists' Day would be to simply to go to the dentist for your twice annual cleaning!...

Aging, dying, etc.

$ · March 5, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 3/5/23 "Oh, posh," you're probably thinking, "Surely a tech whiz like Spc. Chip Gizmo would simply use a password manager to keep track of all...

Sexually unpleasant Monday

$ · March 4, 2024

Mary Worth, 3/4/24 Oh, so, uh, it seems like the Keith-Kitty-Sonia family fraud reunion plot has ... ended? With Keith's tiny mind unburdened by his terrible...

Stop talking about MATH, Slylock, your buddy is in DANGER

$ · March 3, 2024

Dustin, 3/3/24 Much as I enjoy Dustin's "Ooh, a text" betraying his desperate need for even the most tenuous human contact, I have to call foul on this...

Troubling Saturday

$ · March 2, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/2/24 My faithful readers are all familiar with Rex Morgan, M.D., the soap opera comic strip where nothing ever happens. But what if...

Metapost: Horn-tooting COTW

$ · March 1, 2024

Hi folks! Your COTW in a moment but first ... Dropout, the streaming service from the College Humor folks, has a great geek-culture panel game show called...

Three "anyways"es

$ · March 1, 2024

Curtis, 3/1/24 The weird thing about arrested-in-time strips like Curtis is that we, who have been reading this strip for decades, have internalized the...

Leap into comics!

$ · February 29, 2024

Mary Worth, 2/29/24 Yes, blah blah blah, Toby and Mary are still going on and on about Keith's virtues (as a singer and a [squints] farrier?) and unorthodox...

Comical suffering

$ · February 28, 2024

Judge Parker, 2/28/24 Judge Parker Senior's wayward daughter Ann, having escaped her captor when he decided that Judge Parker Senior was too scary, has...

Thorp-off

$ · February 27, 2024

Gil Thorp, 2/27/24 Under new writer Henry Barajas, Gil Thorp has introduced a more diverse cast, kept old characters around, and even rescued Gil's children...

Love to sit, and read about sitting

$ · February 26, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/26/24 Every once in a while, the Rex Morgan, M.D., creative team remembers the "M.D." part of the strip title and realizes they're...

Gloomy Sunday

$ · February 25, 2024

Pluggers and Gasoline Alley, 2/25/24 Old people! Do you enjoy the Sunday comics as one of your last pleasures in life? Well, the whimsical "funny pages" are...

The old, the young, the beautiful

$ · February 24, 2024

Family Circus, 2/24/24 The Family Circus was originally drawn by Bil Keane, with the characters all being thinly veiled versions of him and his real family,...

Metapost: C [clap] O [clap] T [clap] W [clapclapclap]

$ · February 23, 2024

Woo! It's the week's top comment! Woo! "Beasley, you imbecile. That's not an award. The cup with '#1' on it is given out to all the mail carriers, on account...

Friday fast takes

$ · February 23, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 2/23/24 In 1918, when this strip began, most American cities, even small ones, had electric streetcar networks. These were only beginning to...

A criminal AND a judge? Bad news

$ · February 22, 2024

Beetle Bailey, 2/22/24 Beetle Bailey has always added new characters to cash in on the latest fads, and a fun fact is that "Rocket '88'," considered by some...

And what about those car warranty calls, amiright folks

$ · February 21, 2024

Blondie, 2/21/24 I am coming around to the opinion that the primary value of the syndicated newspaper comic strip Blondie is to provide anthropological...

Keith loses his cool

$ · February 20, 2024

Mary Worth, 2/20/24 OK, I'll officially be back on this storyline's side again if instead of manfully failing to mention those inconvenient paternity test...

Josh has advice

$ · February 19, 2024

Dennis the Menace, 2/19/24 Let me tell you, as a guy who writes jokes for a living, that no matter how bad you think the jokes on this website are, there...

Sunday short takes

$ · February 18, 2024

Family Circus, 2/18/24 "Oh, hey, does my toddler have a bunch of friends who I don't know, who somehow got into the house without me having noticed? Sure,...

Saturday is for the terrible children

$ · February 17, 2024

Hi and Lois, 2/17/24 In a happier family, Hi would relay this story with a rueful smile on his face, acknowledging that it was a disappointing game while...

Metapost: Slightly lackadaisical COTW

$ · February 16, 2024

Got a late start this morning but a comment of the week is welcome any time of day, I feel: "'Keith! How things are with your former girlfriend and your...

Friday is for fluids

$ · February 16, 2024

Shoe, 2/16/24 I was about to start this post with "Sorry I'm the Perfeser facial expression parser now," but why should I apologize for that? You, my...

Coffee is for Thursdays

$ · February 15, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/15/24 Welp, I guess we've finally wrung all the narrative content we can out of Rene getting extremely injured and also involuntarily...

Love is in the air

$ · February 14, 2024

Arctic Circle, 2/14/24 Arctic Circle is usually a strip about climate change and other environmental issues, but on this special day of St. Valentine, it...

Tuesdays are for awful chimeras

$ · February 13, 2024

Pluggers, 2/13/24 Wow, I feel like the backstory that lead up to today's Pluggers is even grimmer than usual. Chicken-lady is thrusting this inoffensive but...

Honest Josh's Comics Emporium

$ · February 12, 2024

Gasoline Alley, 2/12/24 Good (?) news, everybody: Slim didn't freeze to death in his car, and it turns out that the supposed "love note" his wife found was...

Multiple no-necks in today's strips, honestly

$ · February 11, 2024

Crock, 2/11/24 You know, some days I open up the ol' comics in my newspaper web browser and think, "After all these years on this blog, do I truly have...

Even his perm is wilted

$ · February 10, 2024

Mary Worth, 2/10/24 While we've heard a lot about how Keith is a good romantic partner and putting in the work as a father figure, we haven't actually seen a...

Metapost: Look upon these comments, and rejoice

$ · February 9, 2024

Would you describe yourself as "working for the weekend"? Well, good news: It's almost here, and this week's top comment heralds the fun: "Wouldn't it be...

Kids these days

$ · February 9, 2024

Hi and Lois, 2/9/24 I have not been on the "dating scene" since I met my wife-to-be back in 2002, but I try to keep abreast of the discourse and the lingo...

Love and death (mostly death)

$ · February 8, 2024

Mary Worth, 2/8/24 Move over, "celler door!" There's a new most beautiful two-word phrase in the English language, and it's "odd rock." "Race you to that odd...

Hell is other people and also other animal-people

$ · February 7, 2024

Six Chix, 2/7/24 I said my piece a while back about why I'm not the biggest fan of cartoons about hell, but you know me: I can't resist looking at a comic...

Tuesday is for the children

$ · February 6, 2024

Hi and Lois, 2/6/24 God, this one is super bleak. Lois has convinced herself that, sure, things are tight and they can't afford to order pizza very often...

Medical monday

$ · February 5, 2024

Mary Worth, 2/5/24 Say, remember way back at the beginning of this storyline, when Sonia showed up at Keith's doorstep insisting that he was her father, and...

Boomers and horses

$ · February 4, 2024

Blondie, 2/4/24 I am of course more than happy to call Blondie wildly out of touch, culturally. But I gotta say, I trust this strip implicitly when it comes...

Lotta good farming there, "green" is right in the name

$ · February 3, 2024

Hagar the Horrible, 2/3/24 Man, I remember when poetry was orally transmitted, when anyone could get in front of the assembly and fire off some verses that...

Metapost: Early morning COTW

$ · February 2, 2024

The best part of waking up is learning what the top comment of the week was on josh reads dot com, the world famous comics curmudgeon blog: "Once again, Shoe...

Beetle and Sarge Face the AI Onslaught: A Comic Strip Odyssey

$ · February 2, 2024

Bizarro and Six Chix, 2/2/24 Were you, as an adolescent, fascinated by Dante's Inferno, and in particular by the book's weird geography, in which hell is a...

I guess he really is the Man Who Cannot Die

$ · February 1, 2024

The Phantom, 2/1/24 So, big news everybody: The "Death of the Phantom" arc, which started, I swear to God, way back in 2017, is finally over, and,...

Wednesday horror

$ · January 31, 2024

Mark Trail, 1/31/24 Having helped a bunch of guys get in touch with their emotions via fishing, Mark is now being dispatched on a much more dangerous...

Is annoying Rex Morgan considered "good," because he's done lots of that

$ · January 30, 2024

Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/30/24 Oh yeah, so it turns out that Lyle "Old Man" Ollman is actually Rene/"Jimmy"'s uncle! I admit I made fun of Lyle for not having the...