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1. 10 minutes ago on Dinosaur Comics

   “Chad” is a delicious touch. And, alas, it’s all too true, everything said about swans in this strip. When it comes to that, doves are a pretty sad excuse for emblems of peace, love, and holiness. Ducks are OK; their, um, mating habits are a bit raw. (It may look like “gang rape”, but it’s just how they do it.

2. 26 minutes ago on Wondermark

   I might recommend a glance at Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media?; it’s 20 years old, but neither the facts nor the world-view expressed by “Charles” have changed. It’s a good read, in part because non-polemical.

   Actually, maybe ten years ago I came across a newspaper article in, I think, the Idaho Statesman, including a brief survey of reading habits; one interviewee said that he used to subscribe to the NYTimes, but then he found out that they just made up all that stuff. Came to him in a dream, or something.

3. 34 minutes ago on Wondermark

   Oh, and alas. . . .

4. 40 minutes ago on Thatababy

   Tick-bird is a nice touch. —I did not know that about okapi. I did know that, like giraffes, they have a tongue you can tie into a bowknot.

5. 44 minutes ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

   “Too late!”, she cried.

6. about 1 hour ago on Michael Ramirez

   The content here is à propos (for a change) but the art work is as terrific as always.

7. about 1 hour ago on Michael Ramirez

   That’s odd. According to several items on Russian National TV, she’s “a real looker”. Maybe something was lost in translation.

8. about 1 hour ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Laziness Monsters may be lazy, but they’re quick.

9. about 1 hour ago on Loose Parts

   Interesting back-story (as it were). The contents of the text aren’t very humorous, though; perhaps “the other side” (well, the verso) “of the comics page” in most newpapers isn’t more comics.

10. about 1 hour ago on Steve Kelley

    This cartoon is unusually hard to parse intelligibly.