And so it begins: this is the first Charlie Brown missing the football gag from Peanuts. Here it’s not Lucy, but Violet, November 14, 1951.
The first one with Lucy is a year later, November 16, 1952.
This one gets a geezer tag. The Heidi game was in 1968, 56 years before Jimmy Johnson drew this comic!
Back to back in my GoComics feed:
Danny Boy – London Derriere sends this one in. You’ll enjoy them, OFC.
Darren submitted this same-day pair, commenting: “Two separate one-panels with a riff on mimes and the right to remain silent.” — they just don’t come more synchronous than this!
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Darren added: “Although in the Loose Parts [on the left], I’m wondering what made him give in. Has the mime just been standing in one spot for over a week or something?“
Billr sends this in: “Obviously his weirdly shaped cup is key, but what exactly is going on?”
Those who like to ponder cartoon physics might wonder what the characteristics of such a coffee mug might be.
I got this on second or third read, but I don’t think it gets points for execution:
Mitch asked, “What is the soccer ball doing in there?” but once I got the overall point (such as it was), I see why it’s there.
Am I being overly critical here?
Mitch4 sends this in: “NOT synchronicity, but comix history. The 17 July 1956 Beetle (which appeared in the Comics Kingdom vintage feed for today, 30 January 2025) establishes Otto as Sarge’s dog and perhaps his pet, while today’s Beetle contests whether they can have pets and denies that that’s what Otto is.
In that column on the left, there is a Suggest-a-CIDU form. If you see something that particularly puzzles you, let us help by sending it in.
I love the phrase “house camping”. It’s a good description of trying to work around a serious remodeling project.
In that column on the left, there is a Suggest-a-CIDU form. If you see something that particularly puzzles you, let us help by sending it in.
In that column on the left, there is a Suggest-a-CIDU form. If you see something that particularly puzzles you, let us help by sending it in.
Some philosophy showing up in my comic feeds this week.
The term Axial Age is new to me. It comes from a German philosopher, Karl Jaspers, and refers to the 8th to 3rd centuries B.C. For more, see Wikipedia. I note that some major religious thinkers (Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Joel Osteen) are outside this period. I wonder if Zach’s comic was inspired by some trivial argument with his HOA board.
In that column on the left, there is a Suggest-a-CIDU form. If you see something that particularly puzzles you, let us help by sending it in.
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