"Like this beatnik here, I know you really hate beatniks"
Dick Tracy, 1/19/23 Hey, remember “Wunbrow,” Dick Tracy’s pal with only one [eye]brow? He showed up in 1958 as a Tracy ally and agent of Batista’s...
Flathead and the Mullet, coming this fall to CBS
Gil Thorp, 1/18/23 You might not know it based on his lackluster coaching record, but Gil is capable of shrewdly planning ahead. He’s facing an abrupt firing...
There's no escape, Mary -- no escape
Family Circus, 1/17/23 I'm really loving the body language in today's panel. Jeffy clearly didn't just mouth off at random; rather, he made a deliberate...
Into the past and/or future
Crankshaft, 1/16/23 Now that Funky Winkerbean has vanished into the future, you may be wondering what happened to the Crankshaft zone of the Funkyverse, left...
VAP!, the normal sound effect we all know and love
Shoe, 1/15/23 Sometimes when you have a longrunning media franchise like the syndicated newspaper comic strip Shoe, you have to occasionally recapitulate the...
Saturday quickies
Dennis the Menace, 1/14/22 Look, Alice, if you don’t want your giant jar of evil black goo spilled out all over the floor, unleashing an ancient demonic...
Metapost: Comedic pluggery plus COTW
Folks! Your comment of the week in a moment, but first: If you're in LA on January 13, you can get some more laffs from me, live and in person! That's...
For better or for worse, or at least for a while
Mary Worth, 1/13/23 Iris and Zak just had a church wedding, but it’s never been entirely clear what their religious/spiritual deal is. Zak in particular...
Wilbur's no plugger -- his dreams are too big
Mary Worth, 1/12/23 Are we all disappointed that Wilbur didn’t somehow make a spectacle of himself at Iris’s wedding? Yes, of course. But today we at least...
Should be Elviney and Elvoutey in my opinion
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 1/11/23 Look, I get it, if you were in charge of a century-old comics property about hillbillies, you’d have the urge to add...
Tuesday is for desperation
Gil Thorp, 1/10/23 Sorry, kids! Gil has a new commitment to winning and he doesn’t have time for mere gossip like “checking in on each other’s well being” or...
Sad dads
Dustin, 1/9/23 Dustin is still doing the “Dustin’s dad wants to do pole vaulting” “plot,” for a second week, which I’m reasonably sure is the longest I’ve...
Every old person I know is obsessed with the weather, this doesn't add up
Dick Tracy, 1/8/23 The current Dick Tracy plot takes a look at the age old battle between labor (the master forger who made a fake Da Vinci based on some...
Wilbur combed his combover extra over for this occasion
Dustin, 1/7/22 This whole week in Dustin has been about how Dustin’s dad wants to relive his high school glory days as a pole vaulter, and his wife is just...
Metapost: New year, new COTW
Folks! Your comment of the week in a moment, but first: If you're in LA on January 13, you can get some more laffs from me, live and in person! That's...
Gil's wearing a suit because he has to go to court later
Gil Thorp, 1/6/23 It saddens me that Marty Moon, Gil’s oldest frenemy, feels like he needs to introduce himself here. Presumably he’s doing it not for Gil’s...
Not-so-innocent youth
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 1/5/23 Oh, man, look at the shift on Jughaid's face between panels here. His relationship with Mary Beth is generally of the...
Mostly facial expressions
Blondie, 1/4/23 There are, I think I don't have to tell you, a number of subtle ways in which the syndicated comic strip Blondie reinforces the patriarchy....
Weird world-building
FOLKS, I neglected in yesterday’s return post to promote the big event of Comics Award Season: The Fifteenth (!) Annual Worthy Awards, in which faithful...
WELCOME BACK (to the post-<i>Funky Winkerbean</i> hellscape)
Funky Winkerbean, 12/25/22 FOLKS!!!! I'm back from my winter travel and ready to get back into the swing of 2023 comics blogging! Usually my first post back...