Froggie went a TEMPTIN'
Gasoline Alley, 9/16/21 OK, I am going back on what I said before: I am going to briefly recap the current Gasoline Alley plot (this little girl spent a long...
Third-degree Wednesday
Gil Thorp, 9/15/21 [clears throat] [extremely Beavis from Beavis and Butt-Head voice] FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! [takes a long,...
Kind of Menace
Dennis the Menace, 9/14/21 I am absolutely in love with the idea of Mr. Wilson’s identity as a jazz hepcat suddenly becoming another weak point that Dennis...
Nonsense is more tolerable when the art is good, it turns out
Six Chix, 9/13/21 I know I often slag on Six Chix for doing strips that are opaque, baffling nonsense, so here’s a change of pace: today’s strip is opaque,...
Leroy as a clarinetist? So wrong it's right
Daddy Daze, 9/12/21 Guys, look. I never wanted to have a non-trivial percentage of my waking hours haunted by thoughts of what caused the marriage of the...
"Should I NOT be insufferable and angry all the time?" thinks Wilbur
Shoe, 9/11/21 Spending too much energy thinking about world-building in newspaper comics is probably a waste of time, but [gestures at thousands of posts on...
Metapost: COTW is BACK, baby!
I returned from my absence this week to once again judge the living and the dead, the funny and the not-funny, and I decree the following to be this week’s...
Friday is (mostly) for children
Family Circus, 9/10/21 A lot has changed for me, both in my life and vis-à-vis my relationship to the comics, since I started this blog in 2004, and...
Soapy Thursday
Gil Thorp, 9/9/21 Big news, everybody! Usually football dominates the Gil Thorp fall storyline, just like it dominates the American sports fan's mind, but...
Excited for Halftrack's collaboration with Mr. Brainwash
Dennis the Menace, 9/8/21 We all know, of course, that every time the Henry and Alice Mitchell attempt to make friends, their very first social engagement...
TRIUMPHANT POST-LABOR-DAY RETURN COMICS!
Hello, everyone, I have returned to my comics mocking duties! Everyone who gave to the summer fundraiser will be getting a personal thank you note, but I...
Ah, Wilderness!
Mark Trail, 9/6/21 I’ve been enjoying Mark’s fish-out-of-water misadventures in wildlife-themed social media, and especially Cherry’s return to Elrod-era...
World of Animals IV
“Hello kids, and welcome back to World of Animals — I’m your beloved host, Carl. Well, it’s been quite a while, so let’s all catch up — on entertaining...
The future lies ahead - or DOES it?
So ends the 2021 Comics Curmudgeon Summer Fundraiser! Thank you, everybody! Mark Trail, 9/4/21 It’s charming that with Mark’s long-running Woods and Wildlife...
Never again four hairs—now am I like unto a god!
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Time after time
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Quandries (now with visible comics!)
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Quandries
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Farther afield
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It's the Summer 2021 Comics Curmudgeon Fundraiser!
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