I'm sure there are other plumbers named Andy, why base your branding on being a bear
Pluggers, 4/24/22 When I lived in Oakland, California, there was a plumber's truck that parked near my apartment building all the time with the business name...
Coded signals
Gil Thorp, 4/23/22 Despite having become, late in my life and to my own surprise, a fervent Dodgers fan, at first I was unable to get that worked up about...
Marriages are complex
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 4/22/22 "Not only that, but his extreme laziness has inspired this whole town to shun honest work in the only profitable...
Thursday is for gentlemen of a certain age
Mary Worth, 4/21/22 I hope I have made it very clear on this blog that I love snide, catty Ian much more than I do boring, supportive Ian, and if you need...
Is the shape of her earrings related to the name somehow????
Dick Tracy, 4/20/22 One thing that's been bothering me about this Dick Tracy storyline is the name of the character who dated the dead real Tonsils and is...
The weird overalls and polka dot shirt are embarrassing, to be fair
Mary Worth, 4/19/22 Oh ho ho, our man Ian has finally found out what’s troubling his young-ish bride and isn’t going to fly into one of his trademark rages...
Breaking Ed
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/18/22 We talk a lot about Rex's permanent state of misanthropy, but we don't really talk about the damage his refusal to engage with his...
Seriously, how does she chew
Funky Winkerbean, 4/17/22 If you went back from the Funkypresent to the Funkypast with a medically minded mission, you would probably tell young Lisa to get...
The kids today *are* into overly complex insulting rejections, so that tracks
Dustin, 4/16/22 Look, I'm not saying there shouldn't be a comic strip that makes fun of young people who move back in with their parents. We already have...
Metapost: COTW: The saga continues
Is it Friday? Is it time for the comment of the week? You better believe it buster! "Toby is wearing two black armbands: one for her job, one for her...
"Modern art? *I* could draw like that" thinks Billy, incorrectly
Dennis the Menace and The Family Circus, 4/15/22 Oh, man, this is it. This is the nadir. The Keane Kids have ruined their parents’ outing to an art museum,...
Chag squawk-meach
The Lockhorns, 4/14/22 Really loving Loretta’s expression here. Instead of starting a sentence to sound like a compliment but twisting it into a cruel taunt...
Aged Wednesday
Crankshaft, 4/13/22 Once, many years ago, there was a comic strip called Funky Winkerbean about the antics of teenagers. Then someone got the bright idea to...
Nothing says "sexy" like "Tronc"
Gil Thorp, 4/12/22 Can’t believe it’s taken the Milford student-athlete body this long to figure out Coach Thorp’s main weaknesses: he isn’t very smart, and...
Criminals everywhere shake in fear of "The Dandy"
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/11/22 Ahh, we have now discovered what type of superhero Rex’s patient is pretending to be: the fancy kind! What’s it to him, ruffian?...
Rex will be his sidekick, "Vaguely Irritated Man"
Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/10/22 Oh, man, big shoutout to Rex Morgan, M.D., for coming up with a plot I never saw coming: Dr. Morgan’s latest patient is a wanna-be...
Certainly hope the photographer caught this beautiful moment
Dennis the Menace, 4/9/22 If, like me, you have persisted in the stubborn belief against all evidence that the point of Dennis the Menace is that Dennis is a...
Metapost: COTWabunga
Folks, it’s your top comment … of the week! "I have to admit, when I got to Panel 3 (otherwise known as the 'She said she'll report me to school management'...
Teens: Good or bad?
Gil Thorp, 4/8/22 Gil Thorp generally hews pretty closely to the holy trinity of football, basketball, and baseball/softball, but every once in a while it...
Little Toby In Slumberland
Mary Worth, 4/7/22 Dream sequence, dream sequence, dream sequence, everybody! You might recall that years ago, during one of her fruitless attempts to psych...