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It probably says something about me that I consider Gary Larson, the cartoonist who created the single-panel comic strip The Far Side, as one of the great American geniuses of the 20th Century, and the news that Larson plans to bring back his world of anthropomorphic cows, ladies in 50s sequin glasses, rotund children, and Weiner dog artists has me downright giddy. Those of us who fell in love with the comics pages had no idea how good we had in the ’80s, or how quickly our favorites could disappear. The original run of Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County ended in...

Truncated title. Full title: Scott Adams: Hillary Campaign Signaling It’s ‘Morally Justified to Assassinate’ Trump, ‘Likely To Trigger A Race War’ Dilbert creator Scott Adams has at last announced his presidential endorsement: I’ve decided to come off the sidelines and endorse a candidate for President of the United States. This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear.

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Fans of the well-loved comic strip Bloom County are celebrating this morning, after cartoonist Berkeley Breathed issued the first panels of his satirical strip in decades. Breathed won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on Bloom County back in 1987; two years later, he quit producing it. On Sunday, he posted a photo of himself to Facebook in which he sat in front of a computer screen with an empty cartoon template titled Bloom County 2015. "A return after 25 years. Feels like going home," he wrote. And on Monday, one of Breathed's central characters, Opus, awoke from his long...

Leapin' lizards! After 86 years in the Daily News' comics, there are no more tomorrows for "Little Orphan Annie." The plucky redhead with the saucer-shaped eyes appears in her final newspaper strip on Sunday, June 13. "It's kind of painful," said cartoonist Ted Slampyak, who started drawing Annie, Sandy and Daddy Warbucks six years ago. "It's almost like mourning the loss of a friend." The strip's debut came on Aug. 5, 1924, exclusively in the Daily News. Cartoonist Harold Gray, who created the character, drew her until his death in 1968. Daddy Warbucks' adopted daughter starred in a radio series...

CHICAGO (AP) - The iconic redheaded orphan Annie is ending her time on newspaper comics pages after 85 years. Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it will cease syndication of the "Annie" strip on June 13.

"Y'all work too hard!"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Star Tribune warned its readers Saturday that some might be offended by a comic strip about the Red Lake Indian Reservation shootings. In the syndicated ''La Cucaracha'' strip that also ran Saturday, a teacher asks what President Bush might have said to console those affected by the shootings last month which left 10 people dead, including the teenage gunman.One student answers, ''I'm really so sorry you're not an Anglo suburban reservation.'' Another says, ''You shoulda stuck to arrows.'' A third says, ''Pow? Wow!''Editor Anders Gyllenhaal, in a note to readers, said the paper was not aware...

Looks like Mallard Fillmore has company--another conservative comic strip, which I just stumbled across. "About Prickly City A small town in the American Southwest... everything in the desert is designed to prick you, wound you or eat you. What better metaphor for 21st century Earth? PRICKLY CITY is a comic strip about the friendship between Winslow, a coyote pup, and Carmen, a straight and narrow kind of kid. PRICKLY CITY offers a _conservative_ perspective on political and social events within an ongoing storyline. As Carmen might say, "We may not be correct but we will always be right."

The nuts ARE running the asylum in Chicagoland... Today's 11/27 cartoon in the PAPER carried a note: "TOday's Get Fuzzy strip does not meet our standards for taste, so please enjoy this substitute strip from 2002." So, they showed some strip. Curiosity got me wondering WHAT was so terrible that they had to pull it... So, to www.comics.com I went. HERE is the strip they refused to post. Clearly, a cartoon cat with his "thumbs up" review for the pretty puppy is too much for the Trib...but, they printed the Doonesbury "Watch it Brown Sugar" comment cartoon with President Bush...

Can somebody with computer savvy please post today's B.C. comic strip. It is an absolutely beautiful slam against John Kerry. In Hart's style, it is subtle and never mentions Kerry by name, but references to "having a plan" and a "flip-flop" strategy make the point as plan as day.

An upcoming "Doonesbury" comic will deal with masturbation, and across the country newspaper editors are grappling with how to handle it (pun intended). Of the 34 newspapers that responded to a recent poll conducted by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 19 papers said they would not run the strip...EXCERPTED...hit link for balance.

NEW YORK Garry Trudeau said an "unfair process" led to a vote to drop his "Doonesbury" comic from a consortium of 38 newspapers. These mostly Southeast papers carry a Sunday comics section produced by Continental Features, whose president polled Continental clients to see if they wanted "Doonesbury" pulled. Of the 36 that had a preference, 21 voted yes and 15 no. "The popularity of individual comic strips naturally waxes and wanes, and newspaper lineups will naturally reflect the evolving preferences of editors and readers," said Trudeau, in an e-mail response to an E&P request for comment. "Moreover, a consortium of...

NEW YORK Scott Stantis has created a comic containing commentary he describes as "thoughtful conservatism." Will the strip fly in America's polarized political climate? A large charter list of more than 40 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, think it will. "Prickly City" -- which Universal Press Syndicate is launching this Sunday -- stars a conservative girl (Carmen) and liberal coyote pup (Winslow) living in the Sonoran Desert. Its perspective is clearly conservative, but the approach is nuanced. Both sides of issues are discussed, and the comic is character-driven. Indeed, Carmen and Winslow are good friends. "I...

Men and women must be treated the same and it's high-time reporterettes received Presidential nick-names.

'Garfield' in Race Controversy! A discussion thread on the Internet Movie Database (all quotes are verbatim) features accusations that the new movie "Garfield," which apparently depicts the 20th president as a cartoon cat, is racist. "Anyone notice that Garfield has black stripes, but his owner is white?" asks a reader called setht_1. "Makes you think." When another reader asks for elaboration, setht_1 replies: "The stripes are black, the owner of the cat is white. It doesn't take a genius to see the implications." Achievist elaborates further: Garfield is orange, which implies that he represents the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay,...

'Doonesbury' lists U.S. dead in Iraq By JOSEPH KAHN The Boston Globe Readers of today's comics pages may want to keep a magnifying glass handy, or else don a blindfold. Six Doonesbury panels list the names of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq. The list covers the casualties up to April 23, the date that cartoonist Garry Trudeau submitted the strip for publication. Doonesbury serves up the names without comment. For most readers, however, decoding its antiwar message will be no harder than brewing their morning coffee. Some comic strips grind their axes with noisy fanfare. This one is...