One-panel Friday
Mother Goose and Grimm, 6/27/25 Look, we all associate Cinderella with trying on glass slippers, but canonically, the Prince's retinue repeated the process...
Facial expression theater
Dustin, 6/26/25 I really love the fact that Ed looks utterly joyless as he prepares to shove that forbidden donut down his donut hole. He doesn't even want...
Do you think Leroy was doing the gesture during the movie
The Lockhorns, 6/25/25 I really like the way Leroy is clutching his chest dramatically here. I imagine he already did this routine inside at the concession...
Doom, gloom, and so forth
Beetle Bailey, 6/24/25 One of my favorite bits of actual Beetle Bailey character evolution over the past few years is Zero going from being a friendly but...
He's not even a baby horse
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/23/25 Now, look, you know that Spark Plug is a horse and I know that Spark Plug is a horse, but if you didn't know that...
These characters aren't real people, you don't have to be nice to them
Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/22/25 "Would it help to know that after your relationship ended in failure, she still thought about you all the time, obsessively, even...
Saturday praise
Crock, 6/21/25 Not sure if we're seeing a singular mind at work here or if this is the product you'd expect to get from someone who'd been writing a comic...
Metapost: Early morning COTW
Starting the day off right -- with your comment o' the week: "Leroy's plan to dramatically self immolate by pouring a bowlful high proof alcohol over a lit...
That is an extremely sweet Garfield tee
Blondie, 6/20/25 Imagine how much funnier this strip would be if Blondie had spent any of the past 90 years or so developing the characters and backstories...
Major and minor developments
Six Chix, 6/19/25 Remember kids, the daily comics aren't just for laffs; they also can provide important safety information. For instance, have you ever...
Disappointment after disappointment
Pluggers, 6/19/25 "Wrongo!" my brain basically shouted at me the moment I read this panel. "Pluggers would not shop at Trader Joe's, which is for young, hip...
We all want to be Heathcliff, but there can be only one Heathcliff
Heathcliff, 6/17/25 There are few characters in the comics whose energies are so distinct from one another as Heathcliff and Wilbur Weston, despite the fact...
Mostly one-panel menaces
Heathcliff, 6/16/25 This is, of course, a hilarious joke about rectal thermometers, and I laud the strip for being subtle enough to not use the words...
Dads, but no grads
Blondie, 6/15/25 The Blondie deep lore is that back in the '20s, Blondie was a flapper girl and Dagwood was the dissolute son of a millionaire, and he was...
Good strips Saturday
The Lockhorns, 6/14/25 Once, not long after we moved to Los Angeles, we were driving with friends through a historic neighborhood in Pasadena, full of...
Metapost: Forgetful COTW
As we move on into the weekend, let's think about your achievements for the week, as well as places you may have fallen short. For instance, did you happen...
What does Dolly even have to spend money on. C'mon
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 6/13/25 It's never entirely clear whether Hootin' Holler was cut off from the rest of the Newnited States by some abrupt...
No phones, just living in the moment (they don't know how to use phones yet)
Slylock Fox, 6/12/25 Years ago, I read a book about the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and one of my strongest memories of it is that after the...
I personally am on Team Snert
Hagar the Horrible, 6/11/25 I find this strip genuinely funny, and particularly love the expressions on Hagar and Eddie's faces in the second panel....
Some bleak old people/tech stuff
Pluggers, 6/10/25 Pluggers already did a version of this bit in 2007, only back then the joke was "When a plugger gives you directions, all the landmarks he...