Ha ha, that Bizzy Buzz Buzz! She sure is, uh, buzzing
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/26/21 Remember Bizzy Buzz Buzz, the Snuffy Smith character who was named after a popular (?) 1960s toy and whose whole deal...
Is that a ... queen? Did an actual monarch attend this backwoods educational institution? I don't buy it
Mary Worth, 7/25/21 I guess, based on the quote from [checks Wikipedia] American philosopher Irwin Edman, that this is going to be the moment when Ashlee...
Saturday quickies
Hagar the Horrible, 7/24/21 Wait, she went from dating a mollusk to dating a mammal? The mermaid sexual lifecycle in this strip is even weirder than I...
Metapost: Hot summer COTW
Hoo, it's a scorcher out there, folks! Almost as hot as this blistering hot comment of the week: "If Daddy was a workaholic, he'd draw both your nostrils,...
Is the problem with me? Am I too obsessed with the fake death so I can't focus on real life?
Funky Winkerbean, 7/23/21 I don't mean to tell people how to deal with shocking news, but I feel like this Comic-Con crowd has moved on way too quickly to...
Thursday is for booze
Gil Thorp, 7/22/21 So we're still in the early, extremely manic phase of this Gil Thorp storyline, and there's been lots of cutting back and forth between...
Confirmed: Mother Goose and Grimm takes place before 1963
Mother Goose and Grimm, 7/21/21 Good news, everyone! Like Dennis the Menace, Grimm, the lovable dog from the syndicated comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm,...
Death (real, maybe, and fake, definitely)
Mary Worth, 7/20/21 Folks, I feel like this is one of those Mary Worth image pairs that will go down in infamy. Just admire the contrast between base, trashy...
Trust me, nodding and smiling as if you can hear is NOT a long-term solution
Marvin, 7/19/21 Almost ten years ago, my audiologist told me something that has really stuck with me: studies have shown that when someone gets a hearing...
Sunday two-liners
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/18/21 “Wow, so instead of straining to come up with story elements ex nihilo like I’ve been doing, you used aspects of your everyday life...
Birthday funnies (the birthday is mine, it's my birthday)
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/17/21 YOU, A SIMPLE CLOD: “Wow, this joke doesn’t work at all. It’s a real stretch for something that’s not even funny.”...
Metapost: [Title of COTW post goes here]
[Little joke introducing the COTW goes here] "Removing the border between the last two panels of today's Dennis the Menace would work so much better on every...
Medico Friday
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 7/16/21 Wow, I’m not sure if we’ve ever seen a Snuffy Smith before where Jughaid has doffed his coonskin hat, revealing his...
Thursday is for kidnappings
Dick Tracy, 7/15/21 Oh, did I tell you about the Dick Tracy plot where Mysta Chimera was working with Vera Alldid, a cartoonist who does an in-universe comic...
Ashlee gonna upgrade to SUPER-ASHLEE, watch out world
Mary Worth, 7/14/21 It looks like Ashlee is really learning some important lessons here. Physical objects, like watches, can have emotional resonance for...
Good walks spoiled
Gil Thorp, 7/13/21 It’s summertime in Milford, everybody! Is this the year we’re going to get a wacky summer storyline that isn’t about golf? Maybe! We...
Soapy memories
Dick Tracy, 7/12/21 Oh, hey, remember when Dr. Ghost and Dr. Sail stole one of Diet Smith’s space coupes and Diet sent it careening off into deep space, and...
Sunday is for children of various ages
Hi and Lois, 7/11/21 I don’t really care much about the lazily structured “joke” about Chip not mowing the lawn, but I am very interested in the tiny adult...
Death, love, and taxes
Funky Winkerbean, 7/10/21 Hey, do you guys remember Phil Holt, who was (I guess?) a thinly veiled stand-in for Jack Kirby, and who Darrin met at a children’s...
I don't wanna be buried in a bird cemetery
Shoe, 7/9/21 A few weeks ago, faithful reader Tabby Lavalamp raised questions in a COTW runner up about why the notoriously heard-hearted Shoe would...