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Beginning January 1, 2024, The Lockhorns will be found on GoComics, not Comics Kingdom. As we reported Bunny has switched from King Features Syndicate to Andrews McMeel Syndication.

There’s a lot of Year-End and New Year’s material this weekend, most of it pretty much the same, so I went instead to Australia for Jess Harwood’s take on the changeover, which I heartily endorse. Not only are the most well-adjusted happy people I know dogs, but nearly everyone I know in three dimensions is […]

I’m trying to be more productive than the fellow in Matt’s cartoon, but there does seem to be a lot of letdown in the actual week we’re going through. I’m going to assume things will pick up along about the Eighth Day of Christmas.Which is Maids A-Milking and let’s hope we do better than this, […]

Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have selected 103 pieces from their 26-year-old, award-winning strip Zits for Heritage Auctions’ sale on January 4. Zits has appeared in more than 1,700 newspapers worldwide since its introduction in July 1997. The offering consist of nearly 100 daily and Sunday strips and then a few specialty pieces. The strips […]

Snoopy, Olive (Emi Burdge) & Popeye (Randy Milholland), Dilbert and Scott Adams, Noah Voelker, Jason Chatfield, and Thomas May. It’s Snoopy’s world, and Gen Z is just living in it – apparently. For months, social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram have been flooded with memes, clips and stills of Snoopy in action, clipped from […]

The Dogs of C Kennel (Creators) are experiencing a temporary lull, but we’re not. However, St. Stephen’s Day is, granted, not as exciting as Christmas and the dopamine hit is more subtle. We’ll get to the wren in a minute, but there’s no park. I just liked the headline, because if you are of the […]

It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood.As for the current holiday, Greg Kearney noted the downpour in Maine, which was worse than we had it next door, but we also had some power failures and erasure of snow-making on the ski hills and […]

Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” and today, the day before Christmas 2023, a number of cartoonists used the “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem, one way or another, in their Sunday pages. (Which is common on Christmas Eve but this year it landed on a Sunday and could be […]

Ivan Turgenev’s On the Eve is one of my favorite novels, but it bombed in Russia when it was published in 1859, in large part because it was dismissive of effete student idealists who talked reform and accomplished nothing, as one of them admitted:Plus ca change, baby, though I’d suggest that Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) needs […]

St. Nicholas visits George Scarbo, Walt Kelly, Bill Elder, Jim Davis, and, because you were nice, Walt Kelly again.‘Twas a couple nights before Christmas when an Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas by someone or other was first published 200 years ago in the December 23, 1823 edition of The Troy Sentinel. With a […]

In its online edition of the Indiana Prairie Farmer section Farm Progress ran a story by Tom J. Bechman about a cartoon that ran in earlier issues of the Prairie Farmer magazine: Thumb through issues of Indiana Prairie Farmer from the late 1970s and 1980s and you will find Bug Scout, a cartoon featuring a […]

We’ll start the day with a serious piece of folly before we get into the fun stuff. Guy Badeaux reports that Gary Varvel (Creators) got himself into a jam in Canada after the Toronto Sun ran this anti-Ukraine cartoon in a nation with a very large Ukrainian population. {There are places on the prairies where […]

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life” – Oscar Wilde Today’s Barney & Clyde: From yesterday’s Rudy Guiliani podcast (36 minutes, 12 seconds in): From Uproxx: That’s a pretty quick turn around for The Weingartens and Clark w/ LaBadie. (Yeah, we know the Barney & Clyde comic strip was created at least four […]

As we reported last month Bunny Hoest with John Reiner are switching distributors, taking The Lockhorns panel to Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) beginning January 1, 2024 after 55 years with King Features Syndicate. Further confirmation is that AMS has added The Lockhorns to its list of comics available to newspapers… and created a The Lockhorns […]

This week’s Wayback Whensday was put in motion by a Bob Harris comment to TDC earlier this week. The Wallace the Brave strip spurs my obligatory reminder that the Family Circus didn’t invent the footprints gag. Clare Dwiggins (“Dwig”) was using it at least as early as 1919. Tom Heintjes informs us that Bil Keane […]