P-Nuts, Q-Nuts, We’re All Nuts

We get a two-fer from Ruben Bolling today with him making political hay by utilizing beloved characters.

Today’s new Tom the Dancing Bug features five strips featuring Snoopy as The World Famous Trumpist attempting to save America, while today’s Tom the Dancing Bug rerun from October 2, 2020 stars a psuedo-Calvin (with a pseudo-Hobbes) in four comic strips plotting to obstruct the will of the people.

Elsewhere Michael Jantze celebrates the 93rd year of Dick Tracy, while Dick Tracy himself confronts a man able to answer the question, “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?”

Spoiler alert!

At least that’s who I took the shadowy figure to be in Tuesday’s strip. Turns out I was wrong.

Unfortunately Caulfield is like too many these days thinking comic strips are “a thing from the past.”

Frazz sets him right.

As for comic strips from the past Comics Kingdom is treating us to not just any Vintage Tiger strips…

Comics Kingdom has switched their Vintage Tiger daily feed to the very first strips by Bud Blake from May 1965. While Blake maintained a high standard throughout the run, these are classics!

Will there be anyone contesting these results?

As a long time subscriber to The Capital, I enjoy reading the daily comics and am surprised that I don’t see any letters that pointed out that you printed the Nov. 7 comics in the Nov. 6 paper, and had the Nov. 6 comics in the Nov. 7 paper.

I’m guessing the staff was preoccupied with the elections (which, of course, were more important).

Unfortunately, I will be out of the country during the voting for Big Nate versus Pooch Cafe, but I sure hope Pooch Cafe wins since Big Nate is already in The Washington Post, which I’m sure that many local people also read.

Annapolis’ Capital Gazette is apparently test running Big Nate and Pooch Cafe for an open spot on their comics page. Do either on of those strips run in Sinclair’s Baltimore Sun?

Paul Gilligan is running a blurb at the bottom of this week’s Pooch Cafe promoting his new Boy vs. Shark book and tying the strip’s gags to the book. I’m surprised more cartoonists don’t do this.

In joke.

Jim Keefe lets us outsiders in on an unknown bit about Wednesday’s Sally Forth:

Fun fact – The names on the tombstones are Jen Beck and Ealish Waddell, my editors at King Features. [emphasis and links added]

First time my future wife and I took my mother out to a restaurant it turned out they both liked the same thing.

Today’s The Born Loser and The Grizzwells synchronicity reminded me of trying to eat my meal with two plates of that stuff on the table.

Also bringing back memories is today’s Flo & Friends.

Since this isn’t Red and Rover living in the past, I’m guessing Francesca is accompanying Winnie to an antique store, because even the Dogpatch USA library hasn’t had those card catalogs for decades.

But yeah, I remember running through those 3 X 5 cards then slamming the drawer closed and going to another file looking up titles and authors – mostly comics and cartoonists of course.

More friends of Flo from earlier this week:

“Early-onset rigor mortis” is a wonderful description of how we feel at times.

We’ll give the final word to Pogo.