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Comics I Follow

Non Sequitur

Non Sequitur

By Wiley Miller
Mike Luckovich

Mike Luckovich

Steve Benson

Steve Benson

Rob Rogers

Rob Rogers

Clay Jones

Clay Jones

Doonesbury

Doonesbury

By Garry Trudeau
For Heaven's Sake

For Heaven's Sake

By Mike Morgan
Jeff Stahler

Jeff Stahler

Nick Anderson

Nick Anderson

Jack Ohman

Jack Ohman

Clay Bennett

Clay Bennett

La Cucaracha

La Cucaracha

By Lalo Alcaraz
Jeff Danziger

Jeff Danziger

Steve Breen

Steve Breen

Steve Kelley

Steve Kelley

Lisa Benson

Lisa Benson

Michael Ramirez

Michael Ramirez

Scott Stantis

Scott Stantis

Prickly City

Prickly City

By Scott Stantis
Pearls Before Swine

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis
The Other Coast

The Other Coast

By Adrian Raeside
Frank and Ernest

Frank and Ernest

By Thaves
Shoe

Shoe

By Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly
Pluggers

Pluggers

By Rick McKee
Birdbrains

Birdbrains

By Thom Bluemel
9 to 5

9 to 5

By Harley Schwadron
Pibgorn

Pibgorn

By Brooke McEldowney
9 Chickweed Lane

9 Chickweed Lane

By Brooke McEldowney
The Middle Age

The Middle Age

By Steve Conley
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes

By Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes en Español

Calvin and Hobbes en Español

By Bill Watterson
For Better or For Worse

For Better or For Worse

By Lynn Johnston
Frazz

Frazz

By Jef Mallett
Luann

Luann

By Greg Evans and Karen Evans
Garfield

Garfield

By Jim Davis
B.C.

B.C.

By Mastroianni and Hart
Wizard of Id

Wizard of Id

By Parker and Hart
Strange Brew

Strange Brew

By John Deering
Wrong Hands

Wrong Hands

By John Atkinson
Glasbergen Cartoons

Glasbergen Cartoons

By Randy Glasbergen
Herman

Herman

By Jim Unger
Aunty Acid

Aunty Acid

By Ged Backland
The Flying McCoys

The Flying McCoys

By Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy
The Argyle Sweater

The Argyle Sweater

By Scott Hilburn
Close to Home

Close to Home

By John McPherson
Rubes

Rubes

By Leigh Rubin
Off the Mark

Off the Mark

By Mark Parisi
Loose Parts

Loose Parts

By Dave Blazek
Free Range

Free Range

By Bill Whitehead
Half Full

Half Full

By Maria Scrivan
Speed Bump

Speed Bump

By Dave Coverly
In the Bleachers

In the Bleachers

By Ben Zaehringer
JumpStart

JumpStart

By Robb Armstrong
Mother Goose and Grimm

Mother Goose and Grimm

By Mike Peters
Baby Blues

Baby Blues

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
Grand Avenue

Grand Avenue

By Mike Thompson
Crankshaft

Crankshaft

By Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis
Crabgrass

Crabgrass

By Tauhid Bondia
Sherman's Lagoon

Sherman's Lagoon

By Jim Toomey
The Duplex

The Duplex

By Glenn McCoy
Stone Soup

Stone Soup

By Jan Eliot
The Born Loser

The Born Loser

By Art and Chip Sansom
Nest Heads

Nest Heads

By John Allen
The Meaning of Lila

The Meaning of Lila

By John Forgetta and L.A. Rose
Baldo

Baldo

By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos
Baldo en Español

Baldo en Español

By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos
Drabble

Drabble

By Kevin Fagan
Adam@Home

Adam@Home

By Rob Harrell
Big Nate

Big Nate

By Lincoln Peirce
Peanuts

Peanuts

By Charles Schulz
Snoopy en Español

Snoopy en Español

By Charles Schulz
Pickles

Pickles

By Brian Crane
FoxTrot

FoxTrot

By Bill Amend
Overboard

Overboard

By Chip Dunham
The Fusco Brothers

The Fusco Brothers

By J.C. Duffy
Lio

Lio

By Mark Tatulli
Tarzan

Tarzan

By Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzán en Español

Tarzán en Español

By Edgar Rice Burroughs
Home and Away

Home and Away

By Steve Sicula
One Big Happy

One Big Happy

By Rick Detorie
Ripley's Believe It or Not

Ripley's Believe It or Not

By Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Bliss

Bliss

By Harry Bliss
Bound and Gagged

Bound and Gagged

By Dana Summers
Broom Hilda

Broom Hilda

By Russell Myers
Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner

By Al Capp
9 Chickweed Lane

9 Chickweed Lane

By Brooke McEldowney
Big Nate

Big Nate

By Lincoln Peirce
The Born Loser

The Born Loser

By Art and Chip Sansom
Frank and Ernest

Frank and Ernest

By Thaves
Frazz

Frazz

By Jef Mallett
Grand Avenue

Grand Avenue

By Mike Thompson
The Other Coast

The Other Coast

By Adrian Raeside
Tarzan

Tarzan

By Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ripley's Believe It or Not

Ripley's Believe It or Not

By Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Gary Markstein

Gary Markstein

Mike Luckovich

Mike Luckovich

Steve Benson

Steve Benson

Steve Breen

Steve Breen

Home and Away

Home and Away

By Steve Sicula
The Meaning of Lila

The Meaning of Lila

By John Forgetta and L.A. Rose
Pickles

Pickles

By Brian Crane
B.C.

B.C.

By Mastroianni and Hart
Rubes

Rubes

By Leigh Rubin
Herman

Herman

By Jim Unger
Luann

Luann

By Greg Evans and Karen Evans
Wizard of Id

Wizard of Id

By Parker and Hart
Broom Hilda

Broom Hilda

By Russell Myers
JumpStart

JumpStart

By Robb Armstrong
Nest Heads

Nest Heads

By John Allen
Steve Kelley

Steve Kelley

Recent Comments

  1. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

    — We agree about the Cheneys.

    As I said in citing the litany of long-time consistent conservatives as to ideology and morality, I disagree with them on pretty much all of the main issues of ideology and morality and that does not change just because they did the bare minimum in deciding not to support a direct attack on our constitutional democratic republic and its norms.

    Of course, support for endless wars to enrich the “defense contractors” of the military-industrial complex is a long-standing principle basic to conservatism, going back to Nixon’s sabotage of the LBJ Vietnam war peace talks right before the 1968 election (look up Nixon, Vietnam War and Chennault Affair, which was kept secret under seal for fifty years and just released in 2018) and then extending the war needlessly another seven years, to Reagan’s invasion of Grenada to distract from his failure to prevent the Beirut bombing, to the Bush/Cheney wars of choice in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  2. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

    Agreed. People can change their minds.

    Once upon a time, Ron Paul was an ideologically and morally consistent libertarian conservative.

    Then he changed his mind.

    As for me, for once you guessed right. In 1984 I was a social and economic LIBeral PROgressive who opposed Reagan’s war against middle class working people. I was right then and remain right today. Ideologically and morally consistent, whether or not you agree with it.

    In contrast, what was once a conservative party, today’s Trumpublican MAGA cult has devolved into an anti-freedom, anti-constitutional party of fascist authoritarianism that bears zero resemblance to the party of Goldwater, Reagan, the Cheneys the original religious conservatives who would never have supported the buffoonish grifting scam artist masquerading as a conservative.

  3. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

    — In February 2016 Ron Paul is on video saying that if Trump gets the nomination he will not support him for the presidency. So I guess Ron Paul is NOT the true, ideologically and morally consistent libertarian conservative after all.

    Just another flip-flopping hypocrite.

    Yep, I guess he is your man.

  4. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

    — The people I listed are the traditional conservatives. Sorry, you don’t get to tell people like Liz Cheney on the secular right or Mike Pence from the religious right that they are not conservatives. And while Mitt R-money certainly has been wishy-washy and flip-flopping on many issues (running as a pro-choice, pro-healthcare moderate in liberal Massachusetts then as a supposed hard-right anti-choice anti-Obamacare social conservative when running for president and later Utah senator, the multi-millionaire hedge fund vulture capitalist has been 100% consistent on one issue: tax cuts and economic incentives for the few richest elites at the top and leftovers for everyone else. Mitt R-money represents the economic right.

    I absolutely agree that Ron Paul is a strong representative of true libertarian conservatism. He also did not endorse Donald Trump.

    True conservatives who maintained ideological and moral consistency of the secular right, religious right, economic right and libertarian right have rejected Trump.

    And I would add that, some of his closest advisors who saw his destructive and malicious tendencies close up also repudiate him now, and many are testifying against him. I would call them the constitutional loyalists.

  5. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

    continuation…

    As I have demonstrated for many years in these forums, I have plenty of differences in political, economic, moral and policy issues with the traditional conservatives like Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, and many of those who had help top advisory positions in the Bush and even Trump administrations but no longer support him and many moderate Republicans who have resigned or not run for reelection.

    If we ever get back to political normalcy again, I will continue to vigorously oppose them in those areas. But in the meantime, I can express admiration for the fact that, when push came to shove, they remained true to REAL conservative principles and loyal to the Constitution and to their nation.

  6. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

    — I did not delete any posts. Apparently a moderator did, even though there was no violation of any of the posted standards.

    Bottom line is, I had previously and correctly disputed your incorrect assertion that today’s extreme version of conservatism supports the “freedom” or “liberty” to which they give hollow lip service.

    When conservatives talk about “freedom” or “liberty,” what they mean is “freedom” for ginormous corporations to run roughshod over the rights of workers, consumers and our shared environment, but want to micromanage and dictate control over every aspect of your personal lives.

    Conservatives want to take away liberty and freedom from everyone else and micromanage every aspect of others’ private lives.

    They want to dictate private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry or even what behavior is allowed behind closed doors), private medical choices (reproductive choices such as abortion, IVF or contraception, medical or recreational marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies, gender-identity care), tell us what books we or our children can have access to, or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy and religious rituals into public meetings or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion).

    Your response was to offer detailed excuses and justifications for WHY you feel such control of people’s personal lives is justified, but for the most part you did not actually dispute the fact that those are the positions taken by conservatives. You did note that, in some instances, there are differences between religious and libertarian/secular conservatives, but again, I had noted that I was addressing the most extreme elements, not the more traditional conservatives — the real standard-bearers of true conservatism — like Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, and many of those who had help top advisory positions in the Bush and even Trump administrations but no longer support him.

    continues…

  7. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

    — Social Security and Medicare are indeed “entitlements” is you look at the meaning of the word “entitlement.” Something you are ENTITLED to means something that is yours, something you own and have a right to. While the term is often thrown around in a dismissive or disparaging tone, the reality is, for the exact reasons you cite, we paid for them, we own them, and we absolutely have a right to them. We are ENTITLED to claim what is rightfully ours.

  8. 3 days ago on Clay Jones

    — Oh sure, I got that. Mine was meant in the same spirit.

  9. 3 days ago on Rob Rogers

    I have never suggested a ban on all firearms, only regulation of access to prevent dangerous people from getting particularly dangerous types of weapons, similar to how firearms are handled in Australia, Switzerland and Canada.

    That said, nothing you have provided indicates that the Founders intended it to be an individual right. You have had to twist and bend to make it say that, as ultraconservative Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nixon appointee) confirmed.

    Nor have you disputed or addressed in any way the explanation by Alexander Hamilton (who would, ironically, die by a bullet) in Federalist #29 which clearly states it to be a STATES’ RIGHT issue for a state militia, which is essentially embodied in today’s national guards.

    I have a lot of other material that I can cite that the Founders relied on, as noted in their debates, that demonstrate it to have been a STATES’ RIGHT concern (the Bill of Rights address rights of both individuals and states), but I have addressed this sufficiently, you are not going to change your mind, and I am done.

    As for the term “well regulated,” I agree that it does not mean a lot of regulations. It refers to the orderly, systematic, organized system of a state militia.

    Bottom line, we agree that, even if one accepts your NRA-sponsored misinterpretation, just as freedom of expression per the First Amendment (which contains zero restrictive wording) is subject to certain limitations, so would an individual right to own and use firearms.

  10. 3 days ago on Clay Jones

    — Wrong. We are noting that the images Trump used to try to CONvince gullible suckers like you were shown to be AI generated. That means “ARTIFICIAL intelligence” because he either couldn’t get any actual African Americans to pose with him or he wasn’t willing to get that close to actual African Americans. And like a gullible scam victim sucker, you fell for it.