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Notes on Today’s Sunday Funnies

Published: February 1, 2026 1 minute 13 comments

Title Panels

A new Sunday Phantom story, “1536” (four hundred years before the February 1936 start of The Phantom comic strip), means a new Sunday Phantom title panel by Jeff Weigel.

The Phantom title panel by Jeff Weigel

Speaking of title panels…

Nancy title panel by Caroline Cash – February 1, 2026

I’m enjoying the new weekly title panels Caroline Cash is creating for the Sunday Nancy comic strip. The Olivia Jaimes era only had a single title panel with alternating colors. But does today’s title panel show Caroline already sweating the daily deadlines?

Barney & Clyde by The Weingartens and Clark w/ LaBadie – Febriary 1, 2026

Barney & Clyde also deals with the pressures of creation. Hat tip to whoever came up with the comic’s title.

Moving on …

Drop Panels

B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart – February 1, 2026

I’ll guess that it is Mason still drawing today’s B.C. and making adjustments (John the turtle’s squarer beak for example), though I suppose he could have drafted brother Mick to provide the art for the top tier drop panels.

It has been almost three weeks since I’ve seen Gary Hallgren‘s “GH” initials in a Hägar the Horrible strip which led me to wonder if he had retired as that subtle signature usually appeared once or twice a week.

Hägar the Horrible by “Browne” (Bob Weber, Jr. and Gary Hallgren) – February 1, 2026

But Gary gets a shout-out in today’s Hägar drop panel and (spoiler alert) the initials return on February 7:

Hägar the Horrible by Gary Hallgren

Comic Strips

So Dani and Franny just spent a week playing Monopoly and now The Forths are playing the game.

Sally Forth by Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe

Naturally Ted can’t resist “improving” the game. But as shown in Dumplings…

Dumplings by Victor Van Acker

…there comes a point in the game where you intentionally spend all your money and then lose all your real estate just to end the dang game.

Reality Check by Dave Whamond – February 1, 2026

What Dave Whamond illustrates in his Reality Check happens to me occasionally (more often than I care to admit). But then that’s what we have comments and CIDU for.

Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan – February 1, 2026

Wallpaper from Pooch Cafe.

Reply All by Donna A. Lewis – February 1, 2026
Reply All Lite by Donna A. Lewis – February 1, 2026

Since I was blathering about the disappearance of the Sunday Reply All Lite from the regular websites I need to acknowledge the reemergence of the Sunday Reply All Lite. Reply All Lite Sundays have returned to the interwebs. I just noticed it today so not sure if it happened now and they just uploaded the archives at the same time. Reply All Sundays have always remained available.

Good Ol’ Spud, how we adore him.

Wallace the Brave by Will Henry – February 1, 2026
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Comments 13

  1. Whamond’s strip reminds me of the marker on Margaret Dumont’s tomb (she was Groucho’s foil in several movies):
    “She got all the jokes”

  2. You forgot to mention today’s all new Mutts.

    1. I completely missed the 2026 copyright. Thanks for the notice.

  3. There was that Sunday a couple weeks ago where it randomly went back to a Jaimes rerun.

    Speaking of reruns, Zits has been weekday reruns for the last 4 weeks(+ a day) now, and I’m starting to get a little worried. The Sundays have all been new. The Saturday before(after the Tattoo week) was a rerun. Can you use your magical KFS powers to see into the future? Something that’s recently started happening is reruns for Zits don’t have a year in the copyright like Mutts. That makes it easier to identify reruns.

    1. The next week of Zits dailies are mostly from the week of February 2-7, 2015 excepting for the February 3rd Tuesday which comes from February 3, 2012.
      The February 8, 2026 is new with the 2026 copyright.

      1. 5 Weeks of Reruns… Is there a precedent for Zits? I know it usually has 2-3 week chunks of reruns 2-3 times a year. I hope everything’s alright.

  4. Today’s “over the head” Reality Check invites comparisons with the second row of today’s “Dark Side of the Horse“. (Please note that the GoComics paywall will block that link for non-subscribers in a few weeks.)

  5. Today’s “Rosebuds” had Scott “Diggs” Underwood do guest art for the comic art that was featured in the comic, and it’s also mentions on BlueSky that Scott also did an Ed Edd n Eddy x Rosebuds crossover art as well.

    1. I noticed the strange art on Rosebuds but also saw the $upr Dee signature in the last panel. What I didn’t notice was the Underwood signature in the gutters.

  6. Someone over at Comics Curmudgeon discovered Wizard of Id from 1/26/2026 is reused from 12/15/15.

  7. Speaking of Wizard of ID, did you notice the Feb. 1, 2026 ID strip is all retracted word balloons dialogue?

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