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...
Hell is for children
Luann, 6/9/25 Back when I was last reading Luann regularly, a decade ago, the whole deal with Toni's niece Shannon was that she was a hellion but that was...
Slenderwilbur will haunt your nightmares
Mary Worth, 6/8/25 Many of our most beloved deranged Mary Worth storylines end abruptly, with antagonists just straight up driving off a cliff or whatever,...
What's the matter, Hi? Are you afraid of the possibilities
Hi and Lois, 6/7/25 Years ago, I was doing some PT for a few weeks, and at one of my sessions there was an older guy there who was rehabbing a knee injury,...
Metapost: Junetastic COTW
Let's roll into summer with the comment ... of the week! "I assume this is the same hardware store where Hi buys his hair fixatives." --Joe Blevins And the...
SHOCKING MARTY MOON MUSTACHE REVEAL!!!!
Gil Thorp, 6/6/25 Deep in the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, I decided that the dream of the '90s had finally well and truly died, and I shaved off my goatee and...
Josh has questions
Dennis the Menace, 6/5/25 I know that "ha ha, this little boy is repulsed by the idea of heteronormativity” is one of Dennis the Menace's go-tos, but to do a...
You ever heard of this new thing called "e-commerce," Hi
Gil Thorp, 6/3/25 I'm really coming to enjoy the on-the-nose "sound effects" that we're getting during sports antics in Gil Thorp. Are "catch," "swipe," and...
I too love it when comics and movies exist. Love those content formats
Mary Worth, 6/2/25 Did you know that the psychological "fight or flight" response is more accurately called "fight, flight, freeze, or fawn"? I think it...
Mostly kind Sunday
Crock, 6/1/25 Imagine if you petitioned Almighty God for a full accounting of all the evil you've done in your life. This is information that He, being...
Saturday quickies
Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/31/25 Wait, is something happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is something interesting happening in Rex Morgan, M.D.? Wild. Truly wild....
Metapost: [COTW title goes here]
[Joke or quip setting up COTW and establishing that the reader has been waiting for it all week goes here] "Mrs Wilson's smiling face makes the gag work....
Did anyone really call him Steve "Guitar" Miller or was that just my dad
Blondie, 5/30/25 Here's a joke for you: a guy with a master's degree in ancient history and a guy with an MFA in poetry were coworkers once, back in the late...
Crime, love, etc.
Mother Goose and Grimm, 5/29/25 Look, obviously I'm not asking that a comic strip that deliberately has fun with a character that's in some ways like a...