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CSotD: Please, Sir, Can I Have Less?

Today’s Frazz (AMS) makes me wish for the days when I was Caulfield’s age and expected to live forever. For that matter, I wouldn’t mind going back to those days, because JFK was alive, we weren’t in Vietnam, the economy was booming, and I expected all that to go on forever as well. Though, as Rob […]

Citrus County Chronicle Changes Comics Codex

The Citrus County (Crystal River, Fl.) Chronicle recently changed the comics lineup of both the daily page and the Sunday supplement, apparently without warning.                                           From today’s Chronicle: I’m wondering who decides which comic strips are taken off out of the […]

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…

… Stephan Pastis got the pig to say:Pearls Before Swine made its newspaper debut on December 30, 2001.As Stephan explains it was a premature birth: It was December 30, 2001 that Pearls Before Swine first debuted in newspapers. Well, newspaper. This strip ran in the Orlando Sentinel, which for some reason needed to start the […]

Best Cartoons of 2021 – JD Crowe Edition

From the January 6th Coup Klutz Klan to COVID vaccine resistance, bass-ackward state politics, Alabama sports victories and tributes to icons and victims of devastation, there was plenty to draw from in 2021. JD Crowe picks his favorite 79(!) national and local editorial cartoons.

CSotD: Trading New Years for Old

Happy New Year 1897 There is an old tradition in New Year’s cartoons of looking forward to a more prosperous future, and it goes back at least 125 years to this piece from the Brooklyn Eagle, unsigned but credited to the New York Press, a crosstown paper whose writers, according to Wikipedia, came up with the […]

CSotD: Variety Pak

Dave Granlund offers an above-average obituary cartoon for Bishop Tutu. He doesn’t try to say too much, but points out an important factor: Tutu and Mandela fought together against apartheid with sunny good spirits that encouraged people to make common cause with them.It’s a reminder of the Biblical admonition to be wise as serpents and […]

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