Heart is a cute little kid whose irrepressible pretensions are adorable. One of my favorite strips.Because she’s about seven years old.By junior high, it becomes silly.If it persists into adulthood, we’re talking delusional and creepy. The unseen driver at the end is that guy, getting the hell out of town but now with the germ of […]
Heart of the City wanders into the new Nancy hubbub.For those who have been living under three rocks, the old strip was taken over a month ago, garnering a lot more attention than I would have expected, though GoComics did make a big deal out of it, and it coincided with publication of a book […]
Eight years ago, CSotD launched with a pithy recommendation that you read Phil Dunlap’s “Ink Pen,” which apparently not enough of you did, since he retired the strip two years later. Although, in the course of moving the blog to a different provider a week later, I got the name of the strip wrong, so […]
Having just spent a few days in the company of a pair of kids who, if they want to go to the park, tell their folks they’re going to the park, and who are occasionally left alone for a little while, today’s Rudy Park got a pretty good laff.I’m not about to start posting those […]
It’s April 15, which means little on weekends and less on Patriots Day, but taxes and Easter are sharing the comics pages today and you still can’t do better on the subject of taxes than this Shoe from 1979.An opinion that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I’m a writer of opinions. And […]