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1. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Don’t think anyone posted Lynn’s comments yet, so hear they are.

   “Lynn’s Comments: Because some papers only carried the colour Sunday page, the story of Farley’s passing had to happen, almost separately, on the Sunday page as well. This meant having to craft dialogue that covered all of the important points without going into the details of the story. For the papers that carried both the daily and the Sunday page, it was important to show a reasonable flow of information without writing too much! Normally, I didn’t continue a storyline into the weekend because of this conundrum, but in this case, I had no choice. Readers who only had access to the Sunday page needed to know what had happened during the week.”

2. 16 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thank you so much for the confirmation. I was surprised and confused last month when Georgia described herself as the only single mom on the comics page, since I had not heard anything about her marriage ending. Thinking back, I had not seen The Man for a while, but never noticed with 6 cats, 2 kids and all the other characters who joined the strip since it’s beginnings of a mere 3 cats, their 2 humans and “that cat”/Tommy who occasionally appeared in the yard! I figured they had had very a private divorce, but never found confirmation of it until now. Glad Georgia was able to find solace in her comic. Here’s her FB post about it.

   “I have some unfortunate news to share. After much consideration, the Man and I parted ways this summer and our marriage has ended. Our shared focus remains our children and raising them. Thank you for respecting our privacy during this time as we navigate the changes around this decision and move forward separately.”

3. 17 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thanks for the explanation!

   If Gutter were their father, I think he would be raising them — unless there’s some juicy plot relevant reason for his fatherhood to remain a secret…

   :)

4. 18 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Trying to remember. Was Gutter one of Princess Mag’s little brothers?

5. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thanks. It’s hard to keep track of all the info related to this.

6. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   Check their social media to find if they have Patreons or any other way to donate. You can also buy their books and merch, and Georgia has said subscribing to GoComics can help too.

7. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’m pretty sure GoComics won’t. What’s happening in the newspapers appears to be an attempt to standardize the comics within their limited space, based on what they think people want most — classics, plus a few newer hits, which unfortunately is cutting out a lot of woman :(

   Being a website allows GoComics to have dozens of newspapers worth of comics including rerun classics and the latest hits, so it would not benefit them to start cutting comics. Especially since they might be having a lot of new traffic to those cut from the papers.

   In the end, I do hope publishers realize this new system is not giving people what they want and going to hurt papers in the long run.

8. about 2 months ago on Big Nate

   Big Nate’s parents are divorced. She is occasionally referenced in early strips, but was never seen and has long since faded out. The Wiki tries to claim her name is Linda, due to a strip where Dad runs into a woman he describes as his “old college girlfriend.” However, if she was Nate’s mom, he would have called her his ex-wife, so that theory does not work. Pierce gave this explanation of Nate’s mom in an interview for the strips 30th anniversary:

   “Readers don’t know why Nate doesn’t have a mom. The much-too-long answer is that back when I started the strip, I mentioned on a couple of occasions that Nate’s parents were divorced. I thought a single-parent family would set Big Nate apart from other strips. I planned to introduce Nate’s mom as an occasional character, but I soon realized that Nate’s school life was taking over the strip and his domestic life was fading into the background. At a certain point, I decided it wouldn’t make sense to bring Mom into the cast—and so I just sort of pretended the whole thing never happened!”―Lincoln Peirce

   Early trip referencing Nate’s momhttps://>

9. 3 months ago on Peanuts

   That’s just how it is in Peanuts. Sometimes Linus is in the same class as Charlie Brown, sometimes he’s with Sally. Whatever works best for the current joke or storyline. I guess if you want a “cannon explanation” you can say Linus is Sally’s age, but is in some kind of “grade skipping limbo,” where he sometimes is allowed to be in the next grade with Charlie Brown, and sometimes made to go back with Sally.

   Linus was originally several years older than Sally, being not much younger than the older kids when she was a baby. However, she has long since aged up to about the same age as Linus.

   The way ages seem to work in Peanuts is that there is an approximate “cap age” that the kids will not age past. I think the age was originally about 6, but became 8 over time, since that’s the oldest Charlie Brown ever calls himself. Younger siblings might be assumed to be slightly younger, but no one ever ages past the cap.

10. 4 months ago on Swan Eaters

    Guess it’s time for another confident post that Swan Eaters will return someday, even if it takes another 7 years (but hopefully not that long). Georgia did discuss the possibility of having weekly Sunday updates at one point, so maybe she will give that a try someday.