The Nutz family is definitely not the Cleavers, the Waltons or the Bradys. But you'll undoubtedly recognize them anyway. Most likely, they're a lot like the family you grew up in... where the battle for the last chicken leg is comparable to the Battle of Bull Run, sibling rivalry is putting it mildly, and family values usually refers to a coupon book. Soup to Nutz by Rick Stromoski stars hard-working Roy Nutz, his loving wife Pat, and their battling brood - sons Roy-boy and Andrew, daughter Babs and rambunctious dog Rosco.
Stromoski is the seventh in a family of 12 children. Growing up in such a large family has given him an especially developed sense of humor that he has expressed through drawing from the moment he could pick up a pencil. A self-taught cartoonist and humorous illustrator, his work has appeared in national magazines, children's and humor books, newspapers, licensed products, national advertising and network television. Stromoski's greeting cards have become best-sellers for several major companies. He has won four Louie Awards for outstanding greeting card design. He has been nominated for his illustration work by the National Cartoonists Society 12 times and was awarded the Reuben division award for best greeting cards in 1995 and 1998, and for magazine gag cartoons in 1999. An NCS board member since 1997, he was elected president in 2005.
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Slowpoke by Jen Sorensen
Speed Bump by Dave Coverly
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msowards said, 3 months ago
How can native Americans really complain. During the initial expansion of western Europe to the America’s the native American culture did not contain the concept of land ownership. So how can they complain about something being taken away if they didn’t think it was theirs in the first place.
Now I know that is a horribly wrong sentiment, but it is a thought to ponder.
Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago
Of course, the US doesn’t have an official language (or religion).
ToborRedrum said, 3 months ago
I think they’re more upset at how the land was taken from them: Smallpox infected blankets. Probably the largest act of genocide ever.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
I wonder where the Apache came from? They didn’t crawl out from under rocks.
Robert Haacke said, 3 months ago
They did have the concept of land ownership as members of other tribes often found out when they trespassed in their territories.
david_42 said, 3 months ago
@ToborRedrum
Garbage. This factiod is based on a single letter by one colonial governor and there is NO evidence that he ever tried it. European diseases were a big factor, but they spread without any help once the Spanish hit the continental shores.
rowf39 said, 3 months ago
Infected blankets? Must have been the same people who faked the moon landing in a big hangar
DavidLena said, 3 months ago
What’s the Apache word for “conquered”?
scbaguru said, 3 months ago
We gave them smallpox infected blankets and they gave us tobacco….White man go home!
battycomic
said, 3 months ago
I agree with the second panel.
Comic Minister said, 3 months ago
For that I have no idea Babs.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
@msowards
Because they lived on that land. No one could move them off to gulags, I mean reservations, to live or die at the hands of “the whites.”
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 3 months ago
@ToborRedrum
Utter rubbish. That would mean the US Army had a working knowledge of the germ theory of disease more than a hundred years before medical science did.
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 3 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
I hope you are concerned for the fate of the indigenous European peoples.
iced tea said, 3 months ago
When the white man gave the Indians smallpox, it taught us who the real savages were.