I've seen the future and it is on a single story
Gearhead Gertie, 7/3/25 I am if nothing mercurial, and do you know what I've decided? I like the Gearhead Gerties where the focus is on Gertie's perpetually...
Is "Sunbeam" distinct from the Sun itself, I guess is the relevant question
Beetle Bailey, 7/2/25 Longtime readers know that one of my minor Beetle Bailey fixations is that Miss Buxley's classic little black dress is actually a...
Suspicious grooming and other body presentation
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/1/25 On the topic of bad viewing angles of cartoon heads, the characters in soap opera strips have more or less normally shaped noggins,...
Mostly one-panel Monday
The Lockhorns, 6/30/25 You all know that I hold the Lockhorns in a great deal of affection, but I am not blind to the truth, which is that they are squat,...
Mary innovating new insane ways to hold a small cup
Panel from The Lockhorns, 6/29/25 One of the great mysteries of The Lockhorns that haunts all of us Lockheads is the identity and nature of the non-Lockhorn...
Dustin's been "halfway there" his whole life and will never get any further
Mark Trail, 6/28/25 There's a new Mark Trail adventure starting this week that appears to be about fairly straightforward environmental issues -- poop in the...
Metapost: COTW? COTW
Comment of the week? That's right, it's the comment of the week: "After all the other 'Ed doing things nobody visiting NYC would' entries, I have to...
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...