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D. D. Degg Updated: November 18, 2024 at 1:52 pm EST 1 minute 7 comments

Piggybacking on Mike’s kinda “nothing new under the sun” post – we present the synchronicity of today’s Dustin and Flo & Friends.

Here’s something new – Bunny Hoest and John Reiner have changed the layout of The Lockhorns Sundays.

For over fifty years The Sunday Lockhorns have been one large panel and four smaller panels:

Until this week when The Lockhorns Sunday page has gone with six small panels.

Is this the new normal for Leroy and Loretta?

What I thought was new is just different. The top tier opening panel of the Sunday Hi and Lois threw me.

The man in that top tier struck me as the most un-Browne character I have ever seen, leading me to think The Walker Factory had hired a new artist for the strip. But, no, Eric Reaves signature remains.

Over the Hedge from Hi and Lois is The Tree That Knows Stuff. This week The Tree was sharing his feelings.

It struck me that T. Lewis and Michael Fry are not Shel Silverstein. Advice, yes; limbs, no.

My first thought on reading Thursday’s Broom-Hilda was the same as everyone else’s: Banana Nut Bread.

Bananas: The best bananas for banana bread are very ripe (the riper the bananas, the sweeter they are) and spotted brown – the browner, the better.

Also Thursday:

GoComics put John Deering‘s cartoon on Jeff Danziger‘s page. And it’s still there! With GoComics not allowing comments on editorial cartoons until sometime next year it seems the majority of readers didn’t know of the mix-up. Stranger still – Jeff Danziger got more likes than John Deering for the Deering cartoon.

More confusion.

Honest Ernest gets both speaking parts in panel three of Friday’s Mark Trail. And what about the changing font on the bakery door?

Synchronicity Part 2.

Hugo’s question in the November 15th Tiger (rerun) comic is answered in the Vintage Tiger strip that Comics Kingdom supplied in my feed that same day.

I’m curious as to how well those thin lines of Rachel Merrill’s Gil Thorp show up in dead tree editions.

Back to the editorial page.

Walt Kelly’s “We Have met the enemy…” poster and phrase became popular after the election (The Daily Cartoonist even posted it to our Facebook page). I was not surprised when it showed up in an editorial cartoon.

I was impressed by Mike Luckovich‘s ability to get so close to Kelly’s style, until I looked at the 1971 Earth Day Pogo special strip and figure Mike lightboxed/traced the image.

The above Thatababy reminded me of my search for the studio version of The Kinks’ Prince of the Punks, only available at the time as the b-side of their Father Christmas 45. (When I found it I had to pay a premium price because of the holiday A-side!)

Hmmmm. Does the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) continue?

Below is the Fort Knox Sunday from the January 5, 2014 edition of The Benton Harbor Herald Palladium:

Below is the Fort Knox Sunday from this weekend’s (November 15, 2024) edition of Stars and Stripes:

There are some minor small print changes – the copyright date and dropping the GoComics notice. But is the WPWG still distributing Fort Knox? Arcamax and the Fort Knox Facebook page have not continued running the strip (the Face book page will continue posting older strips). Has the WPWG made special arrangements for Stars and Stripes until S&S finds a replacement? Will the reruns in S&S run indefinitely? Will Jane burn Joe’s shirt?

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