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A selection of 4th of July comics strips from 2025 and 1925.

I’m old enough that, like Stephan Pastis in this Pearls Before Swine (AMS), I have trouble remembering things, and it’s comforting to know that “senior moments” are perfectly normal. He’s right that you can remember things if you stop trying. I’ve likened that aspect of aging to losing night vision, in which you can see […]

Douglas Rodger saluted American workers with this Labor Day cartoon in the San Francisco News a century ago, but, in Chicago, my grandmother was involved in a different sort of labor, and I am rising to a point of personal privilege today. In those days, fathers were banished to the waiting room, and so in […]

(Banner by Johnny Walbridge, who, as noted yesterday, went on to be a Disney writer and animator.) We’ll start our look back at 1924 with a strip I didn’t know existed, possibly because it was only around for about three years. Ring Lardner was a popular writer and this was something of an extension of […]

One of these women is turning 94 today and the other is my great-granddaughter and thus her great-great-grandaughter. So, in honor of the occasion, here are some cartoons my grandfather might have read in the newspaper when he wasn’t pacing the floor on September 1, 1924, which is what expectant fathers did in those days. […]