Children, animals, etc.
Gasoline Alley, 9/7/23 Hey, remember the human baby who was abandoned in the woods and rescued by a talking bear? Well, the bear viciously bared his teeth...
Blondie and Dagwood are just shocked that Elmo interacts with other adults
Six Chix, 9/6/23 One of the sad paradoxes of aging is that pets can be a great source of comfort and happiness for older people, but many rightfully worry...
If that's like a cross stitch sampler he did himself, I retract my approval
Beetle Bailey, 9/5/23 A lot of Beetle Bailey's M.O. boils down to "We thought of a joke, which of our long-ish list of one-note characters that we've accrued...
Can't believe Buck lost this agenting gig to a guy named "Buzzy"
Mary Worth, 9/4/23 Folks! Mary Worth is taking a moment off from her tale of old people engaging in state-sanction monogamy in order to acknowledge that Hot...
Who's the last comics writer who wore a tie while working, do you think
Mary Worth, 9/3/23 For those who haven't been keeping up with Mary Worth in the aftermath of the Saul-Eve engagement, what happened was that Mary ran into...
This is a medical drama strip, take the courtroom drama over to <i>Judge Parker</i>
Hi and Lois, 9/2/23 If you want a glimpse of how in mid-century America, syndicated newspaper cartooning used to be your ticket to a comfortable life,...
Metapost: Comment! Of! The! Week!
No fuss, no muss, just the first COTW of September: "If he won't get down on his knee for the proposal, he won't be getting down there for the honeymoon...
The cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, etc.
Marvin, 9/1/23 I usually wouldn't describe the syndicated newspaper comic strip Marvin as "realistic," but I gotta say, Jenny in panels one and two really...
Fingers crossed the strip remains Ben Stiller-free
Gil Thorp, 8/31/23 So before we get football season underway, Milford's students are doing some kind of Night At The Museum sleepover thing, only without the...
Get forgiven or die trying
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/30/23 I guess Mud Mountain Murphy's apology tour has now become Mud Mountain Murphy's relentless attempt to extract forgiveness from...
Hopefully this won't be as bad as the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars
Hi and Lois, 8/29/23 Look, I'm just a simple city boy who's always had his trash collected by a municipal service department, and I don't understand the wily...
Love and death
Mary Worth, 8/28/23 Big news: in the presence of their beloved dogs, Saul and Eve have agreed to marry one another! Since their last attempts at matrimony...
Fun and/or games
Hi and Lois, 8/27/23 All the Walker-Browne golf strips are sad, of course, because they're about golf when they could be about literally anything else. But...
Animal nightmares (non-<i>Pluggers</i> edition)
Gasoline Alley, 8/26/23 Hey, remember the bear in Gasoline Alley who can talk? Well, he found a human baby abandoned in the woods and brought him to the...
Metapost: Top comments? Of MY week? It's more likely than you think
Friday morning means COMMENT OF THE WEEK! "I'm intrigued by Gil's 'Did I forget to...’ What rituals does he usually perform to ensure those 'OK to Burn' days...
Deadly Friday
Judge Parker, 8/25/23 Look, Sophie, your parents might have accidentally kinda sorta agreed, under a certain amount of duress, to assassinate somebody, OK?...
Soapy quickies
Gil Thorp, 8/24/23 "Take it up with mother nature, coach! Ever since the Great Blight killed most of the trees, we can't spare wood for frivolous purposes...
Lotta sicko material here today, quite honestly
Dick Tracy, 8/23/23 Hey! Remember, Sprocket Nitrate, the ancillary Dick Tracy character whose whole deal is she goes around barefoot all the time? Well,...
How many ways times do we have to say "Pluggers are dying" before they actually die?
Gil Thorp, 8/22/23 I guess Coach Hernandez didn't realize that his redemption and plush new job at Milford would come with a price, until Gil informed him...
Four runners is pretty weak turnout for a marathon, honestly
Dick Tracy, 8/21/23 Hey, remember that Dick Tracy storyline that I wasn't really bothering to try to follow in any detail? Well, it's ended (?) with the main...