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Friday Funnies, Too

Published: March 27, 2026 2 minutes 12 comments

Surprise

Dennis the Menace by Scott Ketcham – March 25, 2026
Dennis the Menace by Scott Ketcham – November 11, 2016

Scrolling down the feed there was a shock to the comics identification system. Yes, I recognized the pair as Henry and Alice Mitchell but boy were they looking different. A new artist for Dennis the Menace! Continuing the scroll the “new” artist was Scott Ketcham who for a decade and a half has been the editor and Sunday inker as well as a writer for the comic. And back ten years ago he was part of the regular rotation of cartoonists from Spring 2016 (March 21, 2016) through the Fall of that same year (December 15, 2026). But Scott was drawing a lot more on model then than he was this past Wednesday.

Was Scott swiping art from earlier panels back in 2016?

Was Bill Griffith swiping John Romita art for Zippy?

Zippy by Bill Griffith – March 24, 2026
My Love #1 cover by John Romita – 1969

Bottomliners by Eric & Bill Teitelbaum – March 27, 2026

Another shocker was reading conservative, MAGAfied Teitelbaum Brothers seemingly taking a shot at Trump’s SAVE Act. Are they too not happy with their President’s actions?

CIDU

Macanudo by Liniers – March 27, 2026

I know the Captain Haddock character by sight, but I have only read two Tintin albums so if there is a hidden meaning in today’s Macanudo I’m not getting it. And the comments are no help.

I recently took GoComics up on their suggestion to log out and back in as I haven’t been able to read any comments at the GoComics site for weeks now:

We made several updates aimed at improving the comments experience for readers who were unable to see the comments section. While the issue is not fully resolved yet, logging out and back in has helped restore comments for some users.

Which helped today.

Ziggy by Tom Wilson II – March 27, 2026

Today’s Ziggy went right over my head until I checked in with the comments.

In Sync

Two comic strips offered in the order I read them without comment.

Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling – March 27, 2026
Intelligent Life by David Reddick – March 27, 2026

Rabbits Against Magic followed Prickly City in my GoComics feed today.

Playing with The Form

Alley Oop by Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon – March 23, 2026
Dogs of C-Kennel by Mick and Mason Mastroianni – March 23, 2026
Broom-Hilda panel by Russell Myers – March 26, 2026

Sayers and Lemon in Alley Oop and the Mastroianni Brothers in Dogs of C-Kennel having fun, while Russell Myers has The Comic Panel of the Week in Broom-Hilda.

(For some reason Comics Kingdom doesn’t display this beautiful Broom-Hilda panel.)

Rarities

While searching for something else I stumbled across this specialty Peanuts comic strip Charles Schulz newspaper promotion advocating for newspaper subscriptions:

Peanuts newspaper subscription service promotion by Charles Schulz – 1964

I don’t remember seeing this before. Though since it ran in newspaper from 1964 to 1982 I have to believe that this Peanuts newspaper promotion by Charles Schulz has been posted/printed before now.

Update: The Peanuts strip is not a special creation, rather the September 9, 1958 comic adapted to newspaper promotion. See Solomon J. Behala in the comments below.

Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz – September 9, 1958

On the subject of journalism…

Wiley offered a sad commentary on the current trend in yesterday’s Non Sequitur.

Non Sequitur by Wiley – March 26, 2026
Thatababy by Jonathan Lemon – March 26, 2026

I can’t resist a mention of The Kinks in The Komiks.

And that gives Jonathan Lemon a hat trick for today.

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Comments 12

  1. A hat trick? What an honor!!!!

  2. Macanudo is referencing a scene from “The Dead Poets Society,” starring Robin Williams.

    1. Exactly. In the movie, schoolboys stand on their desk and, in an act of defiance, recite the Walt Whitman poem to support their beloved but beleaguered teacher, played by Robin Williams. Williams is not literally a captain, and I think the gag is: What if students stood on their desks and recited the poem to an actual captain? I liked it.

      BTW, Saturday Night Live did a parody of the scene in which students stood on their desks to protest their beloved teacher’s dismissal in a room with a low but sharp-bladed ceiling fan. One might call it “Pythonesque.”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6LpKOJVf0

      2. Oops my reply posted to wrong comment sorry I am going to blame our cat as he and our dog totally trashed the bedrooom finally found the iPad under the dresser as they apparently had a great time chasing each other around while we were out aI swear worse than a gang of 3year old kids

      3. A great scene, and thank you for pointing it out. Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

    2. As moving as that scene was, it contained one defect that I still find haunting: the “thank you” that Williams gives to his students refers to them as “boys”. I really wish that he had addressed them as “gentlemen”.

  3. I can’t see the captions on the “Dennis the Menace “ strips because the ID/ Date overlay covers them on my old iPad.

    1. Click on the images and they open up whole.

      1. Just curious…. why blur out the bottoms of the toons like that in the first place if they can easily seen just by clicking? Is it a copyright thing?

  4. It is how the system is set up to give credit to the images when put in gallery mode (side by side). A credit for single image can be set below but credit for gallery images can’t, that must be embedded. Yeah, I would prefer it not so but so it is.

  5. The Peanuts strip in the ad is the September 9th, 1958 strip.

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