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

Some quick hits about strips in today’s colored comics supplement. My mornings:It’s a vicious circle as previewed in Garfield‘s title panel with the results in Take It From the Tinkersons. “Leaving on a jet plane” “Don’t know when I’ll be back again” Some synchronicity between Judge Parker and Willy Black today. More Marciuliano… I know […]

Telnaes offers a State of the Union commentary at the Contrarian, one of the stronger arms of the resistance. Not only do they offer solid commentary by qualified writers, but they’ve added political cartoons. Ann Telnaes is well-positioned to address the topic, because aside from her own cartooning, she is active in the global free-press […]

TributesLalo Alcaraz thanks Jules Feiffer for his service to cartoonists and humanity in today’s La Cucaracha. While cartoonist John Hambrock riffs on Rube Goldberg in The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.Then Greg and Karen Evans recall a famous Philippe Halsman photo shoot from 1952 in Luann. Prince(ss) Val(entina) and The AdventurersIt seems Prince Valiant has […]

The opening panel of Prince Valiant took my mind to the long-gone time of black light posters. That panel would have made a great one. And maybe that is what got me thinking about the colors at Comics Kingdom, they seemed more vibrant today. Even the pastels appear to be more pastel-ly. Beetle Bailey came […]

(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 his […]

Looks like Dennis and I were on the same page, featuring Comics of Christmas Past, but, as usual, I’ll be more long-winded.Let’s turn the calendar back to 1925, which isn’t a round number but was astonishingly better than 1920. I don’t know what happened in those intervening five years, but newspapers suddenly exploded with comic […]

There’s not much new going on in the political realm, so I thought I’d clean up a few things that either could have run this past Friday but didn’t, or that won’t wait until the next.In his weekly wrap-up blog, Wayno noted that he could have put a sash on the traditional Old Year figure […]

Mike Luckovich goes there.But it’s okay, and has been since Charlottesville, when the nazis declared that, yes, this is who they are, and Dear Leader gave them his blessing.And Godwin’s more recent thoughts on the subject are well worth reading.Now, in all fairness, Trump shouldn’t be expected to grasp the parallels, given that he is […]

Since Memorial Day cartoons seem predictable, I thought I’d go back a century and see what they were doing then, when it was still called Decoration Day. E.A. Bushnell kicks off our coverage. The US was in the middle of the World War, on the verge of having a million men in Europe and not far […]

Kim Warp bats lead off today because we’re celebrating intelligent humor and her New Yorker panel stands out among a plethora of lesser Facebook gags.When I speak of “intelligent humor,” I don’t mean jokes about advanced physics or great unread classics. I mean jokes that indicate that the cartoonist has been paying attention and is […]

While I was poking around in 1913 looking for something you’ll see Sunday, I came across these pieces which you’ll see now.They’re by a fellow named Rube Goldberg, of whom I think it might be said that he “was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist best known for his zany invention cartoon” and very likely was.He’s […]

While I was looking for something else — which you will see Sunday — I came across a stash of Rube Goldberg cartoons from 85 years ago.And not only was Rube Goldberg a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist best known for his zany invention cartoons (one might almost say), but he is the very Reuben whose name is […]

I’ve been feeling a little burned out lately and thought I’d take a break and play around in the files. Having no particular goal in mind beyond that, I decided to follow the example of our Canadian cousins and celebrate the 150th Anniversary of our country, so here are some comics from July 4, 1926. The […]

I was looking back at coverage of the Civil Rights Act a half-century ago and, well, got distracted. We’ll get to the “50 Years Ago” part eventually, but first let’s look at what you’d have looked at if you’d sat down with your paper on April 13, 1914 (This will be a good day to […]