By the time the comic strips showcased below came around there had been romance in comic strips. Eventually love became, if not the main focus, a frequent topic in some strips. When a strip’s title character is thirty-ish and the main supporting character is her younger sister affairs of the heart will enter the plot. […]
Today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) provides a coincidental coda to the impeachment, because, come on now, what did you expect? I’m actually more optimistic now than I was at 24, when I was sure, along with a whole lot of other people, that Nixon would escape the revelations of Watergate. In fact, I wrote a […]
100 years ago today in Gasoline Alley (from the New York Daily News): Over the years Jim Scancarelli has used the Sunday around Valentine’s Day as a reason to revisit the day Skeezix was found and his life after that momentous occasion. It was not unusual for the birthdays to be numbered. Birthday’s […]