A little late, dated four days after the Big Event, but if you remove the glands under their legs, they reportedly cook up like rabbit or chicken. However, don’t try to eat Phil. Nothing about sentiment, but he’s kind of old and would be pretty tough.Hey, they’re gonna eat your garden. What goes around comes […]
Have added Diamond Lil to our 2025 list of Departures and Rubes to the 2025 Deviations list. Diamond Lil has been in rerun status since the September 29 dailies and the October 12, Sundays.As for Rubes – In Spring of 2025 the panel went new for Monday Tuesday Wednesday and rerun for Thursday Friday Saturday […]
This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: Dearly Departed)2025 DETOURS/DEVIATIONS Some changes to U. S. newspaper comic strips and panels in 2025. 2025 began with Eric Costello as the guest writer of […]
I’d like to apologize to the world for somehow having exported Black Friday around the globe. There are a lot things we Americans could apologize for, though Dancing with the Stars was not our idea, nor was the Amazing Singing Head, another program I only know about because they run promos during more interesting things. […]
My friend got some bad news at the doctor’s this week. A new endocrinologist said he was very impressed with how she handled her various health issues and assured her that she had several more decades ahead of her. That’s the sort of prognosis that would have been welcome in our 50s but isn’t particularly […]
Not sure if anyone who’s been divorced is gonna laugh at this one. From that point of view, it’s a situation where they’re in counseling because they agree it’s gone half empty, but while Leroy wants to try to fill it back up, Loretta is no longer interested.Pretty sure that wasn’t the intention.Another funny/not funny, […]
Today’s Bliss brought about a flashback. The kids were about 3 and 7 and we’d all been East to visit my family. This was before computerization and reserving your seats ahead of time, and somehow the airline broke up our party into three and one.We explained to someone or other that this wasn’t going to […]
Sunday: To Comma or Not To Comma and Two Title PanelsTwo words in Rubes and two words in Cowtown, both with the proper use of the comma or lack thereof.I think my favorite part of The Sunday Funnies was the dinosaur vignette in Little Oop‘s title panel. Also, for no reason I can discern, the […]
From the deepest darkest parts of the comics page comes Wallace the Brave, The Argyle Sweater, Rip Haywire, Over the Hedge, Prickly City, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Rubes, Thatababy, Tarzan, Zorro, Prince Valiant, and Tom the Dancing Bug.From Giggles to GruesomeGot a seven-year-old in my life who complains that her Dad takes naps in […]
This morning’s Duplex reminded me of a news story I was sure I’d clipped, but can’t find. A business professor at the University of Denver wanted to make a point about ethics, so announced to his class that he was going to award a certain number of A, B, C and D grades and that […]
GuestsFlash Gordon isn’t the only comic strip with guest creators this week, Dick Tracy began a new story with a guest writer – though the guest writer remains Eric Costello. I understand that Mike Curtis is in ill health, but sooner than later Eric is going to have to get a promotion from “guest” to […]
Maybe send a valentine and a couple of bucks to Leigh and Teresa Rubin.As The San Luis Obispo Tribune tells it: Teresa’s injury came out of the blue while the two were enjoying an otherwise routine day at home on Jan. 4, said Rubin, who credited his wife’s humor and keen eye as a lifelong […]
Today’s Rubes (Creators) brings back memories of being a reporter at a paper in a city on Lake Champlain, which has its own cryptozoological mascot that people honest-to-Marlin-Perkins believe in, “Champy.”A lot of people believe in him but nobody seems to have ever gotten a clear shot of him, but I do remember one excited […]
Best way to shut me up is to draw the perfect cartoon. Too Much Coffee Man has done just that.Fortunately, the effect is temporary.Matt Golding usually ends up in political cartoon postings, but this one is purely social, and let’s note that obnoxious people with leaf blowers are blowing leaves Down Under. Up here, they’re […]
I believe comics can be educational without being educational comics, and today’s Rubes (Creators) brought to mind a visit to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo when my boys were about three and seven. We had a family membership and visited often, and I think the boys learned something every time, but never so much as the […]