Former editorial cartoonist Jerry Holbert and his wife Cheryl are struggling with a rare and incurable form of dementia. After a long road of prayer, testing, misdiagnosing, and questions, Jerry was finally diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2019 – a rare form of dementia where portions of the brain shrink (atrophy) leading to devastating personality […]
A disaster half a world away has lead Patrick McDonnell to replace a week of Mutts. above: from The Art of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell Reed Brennan Customer Service notification: The strips were replaced at artist’s request for Mutts dallies for the week of January 20, 2020. The original week had a lighthearted theme where […]
(Mo) (Non Sequitur) (Arlo and Janis) “Where’s your social consciousness?” Abbie Hoffman screamed, and then broke into giggles at the humorless politicos who decried anyone who dared to have fun while a war was going on. This three-way Juxtaposition sums up my current mood: I share Mo’s despair, but I agree with Kate […]
Commenters on the Little Oop site seem upset about the school being buildings rather than caves, though the school has been depicted that way from the beginning of the Little Oop comic series. Also – sometime (recently?) GoComics has extended the Alley Oop archive well into the past. It now includes, among other old strips, […]