Comic Strips

Lazy Sunday

While it’s a lazy Sunday for some of us (I ain’t Christmas shopping yet) it is a pretty busy Bizarro panel.

We are accustomed to busy Bizarro Sunday panels and occasionally multipanel Sunday Bizarros, but this Sunday we are gifted with the exceedingly rare sequential Bizarro comic strip.

Added bonus is the substantial, and not so subtle, message.

Though I thoroughly enjoyed Beetle Bailey today that also contained an underlying message.

Beetle Bailey by The Walker Brothers – November 30, 2025

It can be taken as a lesson regarding freedom of speech in some authoritarian countries and maybe when extremists take control of democratic societies. Or maybe just a fact of life in regimented organization.

New Mutts

After two months of reruns Mutts comes up with a new strip today which plays on Patrick McDonnell‘s new holiday, or anytime, books promoting giving.

Before we leave Comics Kingdom …

After setting up Bones Malock as materialistic but with a good heart I can only surmise that this is a ruse.

Poetry Corner

Both Dogs of C-Kennel and Rose is Rose had a bit of rhyming going on in today’s strips.

Boomers and Next Gen

I have to admit there are at least a few comic strips “I don’t get” on a daily basis. (I’m still not sure about that 6-7 thing. But I do get when someone riffs on an old comic creator’s signature.

Third Gen!

Chic Young‘s granddaughters and Dean Young‘s daughters Dianne (Young) Erwin and Dana (Young) Coston sit for a half hour conversation about Blondie with Alex Garcia at Comics Kingdom.

feature image taken from Animal Crackers by Mike Osbun – November 30, 2025

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Comments 5

  1. Any idea when/if Patrick’s sabbatical will ever end? ( I predict that 2026 will be a clone of 2006, as this year is a clone of both 2005 and 2003, and 2024 was a clone of 2004)

    1. I agree. As reported here at TDC, his “sabbtical” was supposed to last “six months“, yet there were just barely three weeks worth of new strips for all of 2024, and I doubt that the count for 2025 will get anywhere close to that. McDonnell should admit that he has retired (except for using the strip to promote new book sales), and stop leaving his readership on a permanent cliff-hanger.

  2. Is that a Stan Lee caricature in the Bizarro Sunday strip? (I loved it)

    1. If so, then I would have to say that both Beetle Bailey and Andy Capp were a better use of newspaper space than the hideous “Spiderman” soap opera strip.

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