As reported here a Texas school district came under fire from parents, police organizations, and, eventually, the state’s governor for including a David Fitzsimmons cartoon that didn’t show law enforcement in the best light as part of an eighth grade project. As Fitz put it: The good folks of Wylie, Texas, a very white suburb […]
Dave Brown indulges in what I think is a perfectly valid case of whataboutism, as the Republican Party and its Dear Leader ignore the beam in their own eye to attack the mote in Joe Biden’s.Only, as his parallel drawings suggest, there isn’t even much of a mote.For Trump and his myrmidons, it’s simply a […]
Erik Dussere gets the hard copy of The Sunday Washington Post: I really never intended to start reading the comics page of the Sunday newspaper again. As a kid, I always read the funnies, but when I was old enough to start getting a paper myself, it was the New York Times, which famously has […]
Getting to this late, hopefully they got it on a loop so we can watch it after the fact.Check at The Deadline Club. Also very late, but you might be able to catch it. August 25, 7pm Pacific time.I think this will be available on NEWSFROMme.TV via youtube during and after. Here, let me give you plenty […]
Join Phoebe and Marigold on a trip through the history books for 10 magical facts about the most stunning creatures to ever trot the Earth. Okay Sherlock, another Minit Mystery to test your abilities of deduction!Can you gather the clues and solve the whodunit before the September 6 denouement?The special Dick Tracy segment began August […]
I’ll confess (A) I didn’t stay up for the RNC, it being hard enough to get up at 4 AM to get this blog together and (B) I certainly saw more than enough clips this morning of Don Jr’s girlfriend screaming.And I saw that Herschel Walker endorsed the fellow who, lest we forget, should also […]
As is my habit on Sundays I turn to Steve McGarry’s Biographic to check if the new page features Ray and Dave Davies and The Kinks. (A futile exercise that has habitually disappointed me for years.) Yesterday I was disappointed because there was no Biographic at the GoComics site. Looking around finds that other features […]
Earlier this month, on August 14, 2020, I missed the 100th What’d I Miss comic strip anniversary.The weekly What’d I Miss, by R. Alan Brooks and Cori Redford, began in The Colorado Sun on September 16, 2018 with this introduction: Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found […]
This Clay Bennett panel seems harsh.But if he drew back and provided a longer perspective, you’d see all the empty lockers and abandoned uniforms and, in a more just and sane world, there’d be a climactic scene in which star player Kellyanne Conway turns in her playbook and says, “I can’t do this anymore,” sparking […]
Original August 21, 2020 post:Over last weekend the Idaho State Journal made changes to their daily comics page. As we continue to navigate through the changing COVID-19 world, we have made some changes to our daily comics and puzzles. This is based on availability, cost savings and better production methods. We apologize if we have […]
The opening voice over quotes Calvin from the November 8, 1989 comic strip.From Calvin and Hobbes fan Joseph Conover: My fan-made interpretation of Spaceman Spiff from Calvin and Hobbes! This is not canon, not part of any series, not for profit, 100% unofficial, and only for exhibition. This is merely fan art and NOT affiliated […]
From The National Archives of the UK: George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, first published on [August 17] 75 years ago in 1945, is a work familiar to many. The fable (or ‘fairy story’ as Orwell described it) of a gang of animals who take over their farm, overthrowing the cruel Farmer Jones, only to end up […]
Wallace the Brave is consistently filled with such surreal touches that it is generally easier to point out the ways it could have gone wrong than to explain where it all came from in the first place.The timing is exquisite: My feeders have been crowded the past two weeks as birds either gas up for […]
George Herriman was born 140 years ago on August 22, 1880.To celebrate Michael Tisserand, the author of Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White (highly recommended), has given us a present. Sez Michael: In 2016, when I published Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, I included an author’s note promising […]
As announced earlier this year Gary Brookins has decided to retire from the daily grind.It appears he has timed his last dailies to fall on the same August 22, 2020 day.Pluggers:Before moving on Plugger Gary gave youngster Rick McKee some advice yesterday.Elsewhere on today’s comics page the Treetops Tattler crew says farewell to Gary.Ben Lansing […]