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Adult Children

Adult Children

By Stephen Beals
Origins of the Sunday Comics

Origins of the Sunday Comics

By Peter Maresca
Underpants and Overbites

Underpants and Overbites

By Jackie E. Davis
Outland

Outland

By Berkeley Breathed
Frog Applause

Frog Applause

By Teresa Burritt
Breaking Cat News

Breaking Cat News

By Georgia Dunn
BFGF Syndrome

BFGF Syndrome

By Patabot
Messycow Comics

Messycow Comics

By Chen Weng
My Dad is Dracula

My Dad is Dracula

By Jason Poland
Wallace the Brave

Wallace the Brave

By Will Henry
Ben

Ben

By Daniel Shelton
Family Tree

Family Tree

By Signe Wilkinson
Angry Little Girls

Angry Little Girls

By Lela Lee
(th)ink

(th)ink

By Keith Knight
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes

By Bill Watterson
Non Sequitur

Non Sequitur

By Wiley Miller
Peanuts

Peanuts

By Charles Schulz
Cul de Sac

Cul de Sac

By Richard Thompson
Doonesbury

Doonesbury

By Garry Trudeau
The Academia Waltz

The Academia Waltz

By Berkeley Breathed
Agnes

Agnes

By Tony Cochran
Annie

Annie

By Jay Maeder and Alan Kupperberg
Bloom County

Bloom County

By Berkeley Breathed
Heart of the City

Heart of the City

By Steenz
For Better or For Worse

For Better or For Worse

By Lynn Johnston
The K Chronicles

The K Chronicles

By Keith Knight
Liberty Meadows

Liberty Meadows

By Frank Cho
Molly and the Bear

Molly and the Bear

By Bob Scott
PreTeena

PreTeena

By Allison Barrows
Prickly City

Prickly City

By Scott Stantis
Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

By Dana Simpson
Skin Horse

Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells
The Boondocks

The Boondocks

By Aaron McGruder
Maria's Day

Maria's Day

By John Zakour and Scott Roberts
Motley Classics

Motley Classics

By Larry Wright
Emmy Lou

Emmy Lou

By Marty Links
Ozy and Millie

Ozy and Millie

By Dana Simpson
Nancy

Nancy

By Olivia Jaimes
Ginger Meggs

Ginger Meggs

By Jason Chatfield
Luann Againn

Luann Againn

By Greg Evans
Sarah's Scribbles

Sarah's Scribbles

By Sarah Andersen
Oh, Brother!

Oh, Brother!

By Bob Weber Jr. and Jay Stephens
Deep Dark Fears

Deep Dark Fears

By Fran Krause
Out of the Gene Pool Re-Runs

Out of the Gene Pool Re-Runs

By Matt Janz
Big Nate

Big Nate

By Lincoln Peirce
Little Nemo

Little Nemo

By Winsor McCay
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

By Zach Weinersmith
Perry Bible Fellowship

Perry Bible Fellowship

By Nicholas Gurewitch
Peanuts Begins

Peanuts Begins

By Charles Schulz
Lay Lines

Lay Lines

By Carol Lay
Nancy Classics

Nancy Classics

By Ernie Bushmiller
One Big Happy

One Big Happy

By Rick Detorie
Lio

Lio

By Mark Tatulli
Garfield

Garfield

By Jim Davis
Cow and Boy Classics

Cow and Boy Classics

By Mark Leiknes
Skippy

Skippy

By Percy Crosby
G-Man Webcomics

G-Man Webcomics

By Chris Giarrusso
Bloom County 2019

Bloom County 2019

By Berkeley Breathed
Lunarbaboon

Lunarbaboon

By Christopher Grady
Gil

Gil

By Norm Feuti
Bad Machinery

Bad Machinery

By John Allison
Shen Comix

Shen Comix

By Shen T
@Tavicat

@Tavicat

By Rikki Simons and Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons
AJ and Magnus

AJ and Magnus

By Bryan and Simon Steel
Ali's House

Ali's House

By Marguerite Dabaie and Tom Hart
Poorcraft

Poorcraft

By C. Spike Trotman
Now Recharging

Now Recharging

By Maiji/Mary Huang
Nick and Zuzu

Nick and Zuzu

By Nick Galifianakis
The Upside Down World of Gustave Verbeek

The Upside Down World of Gustave Verbeek

By Gustave Verbeek
In Security

In Security

By Bea R.

Recent Comments

  1. 15 days ago on Molly and the Bear

    Trudeau pretty much abandoned the stationary camera format over the course of several weeks in 1987. Ever since then he’s used the multiple angle approach. Even for the White House exteriors.

  2. 3 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Yeah, see, the problem is, there are no “leftists” who actually do that outside of the ones in your imagination. It’s not a thing. Your beef is with the Ron DeSantis ilk who openly and proudly gut classrooms and libraries of any books they arbitrarily deem unsuitable.

  3. 4 months ago on Outland

    Breathed really shot himself in the foot, in my opinion. Outland did indeed morph into Bloom Countiy part 2, except it was dramatically watered down because of the restrictions he’d imposed on it. The weekly format really did him no favors. I understand he made the switch because he was feeling burnt out, but the end result just didn’t maintain the momentum that had given Bloom County its energy. There were other limitations that tied it down, but I think the biggest loss of all was Milo. Opus may have been the star and the heart, but Milo had been the glue that held the entire show together. Without Milo acting as a cohesive agent - and instigator of various projects and misadventures - everyone else felt kind of rudderless and adrift. (This was particularly felt, I think, when Steve Dallas eventually returned full-time. Without Milo to play off against, Steve’s antics had a lot less bite.)

  4. 4 months ago on Doonesbury

    For real, I think what was allowed to happen to Mickey Mouse —by his own creators, at that -- is one of the great tragedies of popular culture. It was such a waste. From mischievous scrappy underdog, to straight man with a small mischievous spark, to bland suburbanite, to dowdy humorless corporate mascot - all within about thirty years. He spent several decades pretty much completely in the wilderness of being just a blank, bland mascot, his early feisty personality long forgotten. Only starting in the mid-‘90s did they finally start making scattershot, hit-or-miss efforts to bring him back to his roots. Some of those efforts have been better than others, but even with the good ones, they’re still up against about fifty years of having that bland reputation. Like I said, what a waste.

  5. 4 months ago on Doonesbury

    He didn’t really start writing longer, more elaborate storylines until two or three years in.

  6. 5 months ago on Peanuts

    Boy, this entire arc passes the Bechdel test with flying colors. Or at least colors that jump down from a tree.

  7. 5 months ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Any former kid who claims to not relate to this is lying.

  8. 5 months ago on Doonesbury

    Sigh. Something Trudeau’s long done that I really hate is have his child characters transform from wide-eyed innocents into jaded, snarky, and kind of unpleasant teens/adults. The most extreme case was Jeff, who was a sweet-natured kid with good grades but dropped about thirty IQ points when he hit his teens and mutated into the unlikable jerk he’s been ever since, but it happened with Alex and Sam, too. Alex was a very appealing character as a preteen, but her entire personality changed instantly the day she got the “adult” eyes. And it took longer to happen with Sam, but eventually she succumbed, too. That really disappointed me because Sam in particular had always been a rather pure, innocent type, like her mother in some ways. I thought she was going to reach adulthood and retain that same quality, as Boopsie had. But nope. Eventually she got the adult eyes too, and she became just as abrasive as Alex. Though thankfully neither became a complete jerk like Jeff did.

  9. 5 months ago on Doonesbury

    We both know you don’t care about the lies, kiddo.

  10. 5 months ago on Peanuts Begins

    Violet was still occasionally turning up now and then through the late ’90s. Patty too, but less so.