Mostly soapy Tuesday
Hagar the Horrible, 6/29/21 The most unsettling thing about today's extremely gross Hagar the Horrible is Hagar's eager smile in the final panel. I'm not...
More generational musings
Crankshaft, 6/28/21 In the United States, things are increasingly getting back to their pre-pandemic patterns, at least for now, but the scars on our psyches...
"Why should we get to have fun at work? None of our readers get to when they read what we create"
Family Circus, 6/27/21 Big Daddy Keane is, canonically in-strip, a cartoonist; we know this because he occasionally gets his son to fill in for him, and by...
Please hit me with your "the year you had a boy on the team" memories, I think that was before my time in the Thorp mines
Gil Thorp, 6/26/21 So the B-plot to this spring's library administration nonsense has been Corina Karenna nonsense, in which the beloved (?) and sassy new...
Metapost: COTW, baby!!!!!
What's that? Your top comment of the week? That's right! "I'm loving Billy's Rebel-Without-A-Cause-cool lean here. 'What are you rebelling against?' 'Whaddya...
As usual, comics artists are lucky nobody actually reads the comics
Beetle Bailey, 6/25/21 Say, have you ever spotted a uniformed member of military out in public and been tempted to go up and thank them for their service?...
Soapy Thursday
Mary Worth, 6/24/21 Look, folks, some of you are getting a little riled up and need to have your expectations set properly, OK? First of all, there's never...
Just because you can see the future doesn't give you license to be so melodramatic, in my opinion
The Phantom, 6/23/21 I know the Phantom has seen a lot in his decades as a superhero (and, by proxy, in his 20 previous incarnations) and has therefore...
Imagine if Snuffy knew what he looked like, the poor bastard
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/22/21 Look, I thought we had a consensus here: Cartoonists draw the people and animals in their strips in all sorts of...
Forever a third wheel
Mary Worth, 6/21/21 Wait, Santa Roymart? Isn't that where Tommy and Brandy work? Does Shauna know Tommy? Do Shauna and Tommy go to 12-step meetings together?...
Praiseworthy Sunday
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/20/21 Since Rex Morgan plots move in excruciating slow motion, we've all basically been waiting for weeks now for this moment, where...
Saturday quickies
Beetle Bailey, 6/19/21 Looks like the enlisted men of Camp Swampy have finally launched a violent coup against their commanding officers, and you know what?...
Metapost: COTW <i>and</i> classic <i>Blondie?</i> Our cup runneth over!
Folks, your comment of the week in a moment, but first: you might remember that a few days ago Blondie made a joke about Blondie's long-ago roommate, which...
Shauna knows EXACTLY how dumb, gullible, and horny Drew is
Mary Worth, 6/18/21 Ah, yes, Shauna and Ashlee “ran in the same circles,” definitely a phrase that someone who ran in those circles would use! Also they ran...
Generational battles (non-"Dustin" edition)
Gil Thorp, 6/17/21 Good news, everyone! The library fight in Gil Thorp has ended in a classic "We're not so different, you and I" situation, in which Abel...
Alexander catches "Party Monster" on Netflix and awkward questions are raised
Slylock Fox, 6/16/21 A human can outrun all of these animals ... over a short distance, yes. But what if the animals started thinking in the long term? What...
Pretty sure Ashlee is arriving, not leaving, Shauna, but that's still a good burn
Blondie, 6/15/21 I continue to respect Blondie's decision to acknowledge the coronavirus pandemic maybe once a month or so, but even with that context...
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT FOR DR. DREW'S LOVE
Mary Worth, 6/14/21 Oh hell yeah, it’s Shauna, everybody! Surely you’ve remembered Jeff’s little story about Drew’s ex Shauna, who was wild and demanding and...
More like BORED games, amiright (because it's all very boring)
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/13/21 Hello, Rex Morgan readers! In your desperate attempt to grab onto anything of even slight interest in this comic strip, anything at...
Honestly impressive that birds are using money at all
Shoe, 6/12/21 OK, first thing's first: any legacy comics artist convinced they're going to be on the cutting edge with a cryptocurrency joke has to...