Blast (?) from the past
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/12/24 As we move inexorably into a post-newspaper world, we do have to ask ourselves: who are the comics, as a genre and...
Sweet memories
Blondie, 11/11/24 Remember just weeks ago, when Dagwood dismissed the pumpkin spice concept, now in its second decade, as a mere passing craze? Well,...
Josh has some questions
Rhymes With Orange, 11/10/24 Hey, everybody. Have you ever wondered if demons, the dark angels who have turned their back on God and now live in Hell, where...
Saturday is for cheap love
Beetle Bailey, 11/9/24 I know it's just because of basic newspaper comic strip art hackery, but it really bothers me that Beetle's shirt here looks exactly...
Metapost: Today is the day for the comment of the week
It is Friday: the day of the week when I showcase the top comment that were posted on my website. Here is my choice for this week! "The relative superiority...
"Speaking of narrative" ... you fool, if you're speaking of narrative, there's already narrative happening
Intelligent Life, 11/8/24 I can't believe I'm saying this about Intelligent Life, a comic strip that's usually about unpleasant bug-eyed people saying fandom...
Josh says some nice stuff
Flash Gordon, 11/7/24 The new-ish iteration of Flash Gordon got a shout-out from Uncle Lumpy a few weeks ago, but I'm here to give it my full-time blogger...
One-panel Wednesday
Hagar the Horrible, 11/6/24 Not really sure what to make of the wordbuilding behind this one. Are we meant to believe that a wily group of forest Finns are...
Dark Tuesday
Dustin, 11/5/24 The thing about Dustin is that it's a perfect machine of hateability, in the sense that there isn't a single recurring character that I have...
Monday is for cyber, and murder, and love
Alice, 11/4/24 A thing I think about a lot is that the guy who the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory inspired to shoot up Comet Ping-Pong in the aftermath of the...
Bench II: Return to the Bench
Beetle Bailey, 11/3/24 Every once in a while, you do have to wonder how much anyone at Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC knows about the actual...
Century Boulevard ... we love it
Blondie, 11/2/24 The Blondie creative team is usually very locked in to whatever big calendar full of real and fake holidays that's clearly hanging up in the...
Metapost: 1st of the month, 1st COTW of the month
Happy November, all! And there's nothing happier than the comment of the week! "The robot looks like he's been waiting a long time to squeeze this question...
Wilbumiliation
Mary Worth, 11/1/24 Aww, who came to Dr. Ed and Estelle's last-minute, let's-make-it-legal-before-we-have-another-dumb-fight wedding? Well, from left, we...
Spooky, soapy, etc.
Gil Thorp, 10/31/24 Oh, huh, Gil Thorp as a vampire is gonna be a cherished annual tradition now? I'm not complaining, mind you. Far from it! I do question...
Classic enemies-to-lovers arc
Hi and Lois, 10/30/24 Never mind Trixie's baby brain being incapable of parsing this metaphor. What kind of fool's paradise have Hi and Lois been living in...
Doc Pritchart has never heard of Pagliacci and wouldn't recommend this costume
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 10/29/24 No. Sorry. Call me a coastal flatlander elitist if you must, but I do not buy today's Barney Google and Snuffy Smith...
I wish ill upon the New York Yankees, and urge others to do the same
Dennis the Menace, 10/28/24 Dennis lives unbothered by the linear flow of time, existing in an eternal "now" from which there is no escape. When Margert...
I'm not afraid of these little guys!!!!
Dennis the Menace, 10/27/24 The Sunday Dennis the Menace strips always come with a title in the first panel, and usually it offers little pun or light...
Gettin' old and crusty
Blondie, 10/26/24 Look, clearly I'm not as young as I was when I launched this blog back in 2004, and if I had a chance to tell that 29-year-old what what...