Does Hootin' Holler actually have a golf course, or are they just in an open field somewhere
Family Circus, 3/15/23 I don’t have kids, but I am given to understand that your child handing you a crumb-covered piece of garbage and explaining how its...
All the delivery guys can tell they aren't getting any tips
Blondie, 3/14/23 Normally, the purpose of Blondie is to deliver laughs to comics lovers everywhere assure its readers, who are on average shockingly old,...
Stay Thirsty, friends
Hi and Lois, 3/13/23 You know, I’ve often wondered how lovable disheveled loser Thirsty manages to hold down his job at Foofram Industries, but today we...
Best Makeup and Hairstyling goes to the comic strip Blondie for somehow doing [gestures vaguely at Dagwood] that
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/12/23 Barney Google more or less vanished from his namesake strip in the 1930s as it pivoted to cruel jokes about...
Wow, just an out-of-nowhere slam on the Ritz Brothers
Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/11/23 Hank Jr. and his new bride live with comic book artist "Horrible" Hank Sr., and the most likely interpretation of today's strip...
Metapost: Towering COTW
Folks!!!! Are YOU in or near Los Angeles right now? Do YOU want to hear Josie Riesman, author of the upcoming Vince McMahon book Ringmaster, talk about the...
Friday (mostly) one-liners
Blondie, 3/10/23 Newspaper comics version of horseshoe theory: when new-look Mark Trail and eternally old-look Blondie come to the same position on...
Aggressions, macro and micro
Gil Thorp, 3/9/23 We all of course remember that time that Mudlark basketball star Ted Pearse was living in a homeless shelter and the fans of one of their...
Dagwood's making direct eye contact with the reader, daring you to imagine his awful clothing line
Blondie, 3/8/23 I’m intrigued here by the transition from light to dark between panels two and three – how much time has elapsed, and what conversation, if...
Honestly Alice should be the one snooping rather than Henry, it'd be sexier
Dennis the Menace, 3/7/23 You don’t spend [mumblety mubelty] years as The Comics Curmudgeon without endless little bits of comics trivia ending up jumbled up...
Give Dawn a spin-off strip called Weston Trek: The Next Generation
Mary Worth, 3/6/23 I have been a Star Trek dork since I was a wee lad in the early ’80s, and one of great joys of having lived as long as I have is that I...
Charterstone SWINGS
Mary Worth, 3/5/23 Ah, it looks like Estelle is finally coming to the conclusion that it’s not that she has bad taste in men, exactly, it’s just that she...
Would genuinely love to see Snuffy go down the Sovereign Citizen route
Crock, 3/4/23 Hmm, looks like Maggot has bailed on his marital counseling session and now it’s just Grossie pouring her heart out to some dude in a cave....
Death, dogs, and dog deaths
Marvin, 3/3/23 If, like me, you are hopelessly addicted to the Twitter dot com website, you've been following the company's latest drama for a while now and...
More like "Hi fashion", amiright
Hi and Lois, 3/2/23 I don’t know, man, I don’t think anyone elaborately folds up a handkerchief into a pocket square, its daring bright red color chosen...
Trouble in paradise
Mary Worth, 3/1/23 Uh oh! Looks like Estelle is running into the dark side of dating a hot, animal-saving, ivory-tinkling hunk like Dr. Ed: he has other...
"Why can't they spend all their time on mechanical devices, like we did?"
Gasoline Alley, 2/28/23 One of the fascinating things about the current state of AI is that in science fiction, we imagined that robots would be able to...
Are there actual zebra-pluggers, or are zebras too "exotic"
Pluggers, 2/27/23 Look, I’m not going to say that there are no plugger or plugger-identified referees, but I feel comfortable in saying that for the vast...
This one's got a beehive, the perversions are just going to get more baroque
Rex Morgan, M.D., 2/26/23 This whole Truck-Wanda thing has been slow-burning in Rex Morgan for months now, but somehow it's only now occurring to me that...
Gotta hear both sides
Slylock Fox, 2/25/23 I have sadly accepted that we Slylock readers can never see past the horizon of whatever Event separates our human world from Slylock’s...