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The Complete Comic Strip of the Day Archives

Published: February 16, 2026 1 minute 11 comments

We are excited to announce the complete Comic Strip of the Day archives is now under one roof! As regular readers know, Mike Peterson has been posting his daily column here since 2018. Starting in 2010, he posted on an older blog platform. An end of service announcement gave us an opportunity to migrate Mike’s insightful column into TDC.

A life-long comic enthusiast, Mike created Comic Strip of the Day as an alternative to other comic critics that only to make fun of strips they didn’t like. Mike wanted to create something “to salute good work and link to where people could find it if their local paper wasn’t carrying it.”

Examples of early posts

Over the years his columns became longer and included more cartoons from US and international editorial cartoonists. While he’s stayed true to his intention to draw attention to great cartoons, Mike hasn’t been afraid to insert constructive criticism when he thinks it’s merited. Cartoons who are ripe for criticism are those that “lack of logic, twisting of facts or plain mean-spiritedness.” In 16 years, he’s only had one cartoonist take offense and ask not to be included in future columns.

We sometimes get inquiries on how to be included in Comic Strip of the Day. The first bar to clear is you have to do good, consistent work. Sooner or later Mike will find you. I’ve tried get a list of cartoonists from Mike but there is no master list. He gets up at an ungodly hour and spends a couple of hours scrolling through scores of websites, platforms, and social media looking for the cartoons to include. Before 9:00 am Eastern, he’s hitting publish. After a nap, he catches up on other reading material that he will incorporate into his analysis for a future column.

We hope you take a moment to scroll back through his earlier work. You can jump back to the pre-2018 work or just keep tabs on his whole body of work starting with his latest here.

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  1. This is absolutely GREAT news! I’ve been reading Mike’s blog for ~15 years, give or take, but have always wanted to check out the “early” days of Comic Strip of the Day.

  2. I would dearly love to know which cartoonist was so lacking in humor as to ask to be excluded from CSotD, but I fully expect that this is confidential information.

    1. P.S.: “… Cartoons who are ripe for criticism …” ?!? 😉

    2. More an issue of journalistic discretion. Besides, if I don’t publicly flog him for it, he might sometime decide he’d been hasty.

  3. I don’t see any way to go further back in time than the 15 or so CSOTDs that show up on the page using either of those last two links. I’d expect there to be a button at the bottom saying “Next,” “Previous” or “Older” or something like that, but there’s nothing there on my browser (Chrome). Maybe I’m missing something….

    But it’s a great idea! CSOTD deserves a complete archive.

    1. Thanks for alerting me to that. Should be fixed now. Enjoy!

    1. Unfortunately after the oldest two (shown above as images) the next dozen I checked don’t show the comic being honored – “image not found.” The last few CSotD that were migrated don’t have that problem.

      1. Unfortunately, when we exported his site, we didn’t get all images. I manually added a couple to get those screenshots.You’ll likely find “image not found” the further back into the archives you go.

  6. Ahhh, for world enough and time…

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