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Six Chix, 6/19/25

Remember kids, the daily comics aren’t just for laffs; they also can provide important safety information. For instance, have you ever wondered if it was possible to turn your ankle while wearing Uggs? Well, the answer: is yes. It’s also possible to do so while wearing Crocs, which is what I’m reasonably sure we’re looking at in this cartoon.

Family Circus, 6/19/25

Over the years of doing this blog, I’ve slowly changed my position on the Family Circus children from “God, the Keane Kids are annoying” to “Haha, the Keane Kids are annoying, and that is in fact the joke in the Family Circus most days.” I’m really enjoying Big Daddy Keane’s facial expression in this one. “Well, that’s one fewer college savings fund we’re going to need,” he’s thinking.

Mary Worth, 6/19/25

“Yes, Mary, it’s true that Belle tried to turn me into goo from the inside with a powerful liquid solvent, but have you considered the fact that Wilbur is no longer getting laid on the regular? Who’s the real victim here?”

Rex Morgan, M.D., 6/19/25

“I know a good doctor, but he doesn’t like it when you make him do medical stuff, so I don’t want to bug him about it. I’m sure whatever private equity fund paid 23 And Me’s creditors pennies on the dollar for rights to use the company’s branding won’t steer us wrong in any legally actionable sense!”

Blondie, 6/19/25

Big news, everybody: Blondie and Dagwood are getting a divorce. It’s been a long and winding road for these two in more than 90 years of marriage, and I think I speak for everyone in wishing them and their children the best during this difficult time.

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The Lockhorns, 6/14/25

Once, not long after we moved to Los Angeles, we were driving with friends through a historic neighborhood in Pasadena, full of Craftsman-style homes with neat, well-tended lawns, and we turned a corner and suddenly saw an utterly horrifying looking creature — Google Image Search would later confirm that it was a coyote with some kind of condition that had caused all of its hair to fall out — taking a big dump smack in the middle of one of said lawns, in broad daylight. It made eye contact with us and had the exact same expression on its face that Leroy has here, which is why I have to dub this Lockhorns one of the greatest ever made.

Mary Worth, 6/14/25

How are Wilbur and Dawn handling the fallout from the Belle Situation? Well, they’re sitting in pitch darkness, binging on fast food, and telling each other stories about all the terrible relationships they’ve had with dangerous, abusive people. This is … healthy behavior on their part, maybe? Healthier than usual? Less unhealthy?

Crock, 6/14/25

It’s crazy to call Crock an “innovator,” but this strip is from 1997, before most people had ever used the internet, and yet it manages to perfectly capture the experience of being online: you log on, and you get hit in the face with a bunch of water. Pretty sure all comic strips about the web in the subsequent 28 years have been downhill from this.

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Hagar the Horrible, 6/11/25

I find this strip genuinely funny, and particularly love the expressions on Hagar and Eddie’s faces in the second panel. Obviously they consider themselves to have landed in a suboptimal situation, babysitting-wise. But could they have prevented this? Maybe, but they’re damned if they can figure out how.

Mary Worth, 6/11/25

To be fair, Dawn, Wilbur didn’t “believe” Willa so much as “walked in on Belle trying to eat her.” I’m sure that if he had actually seen her trying to poison you he … probably would’ve done something about it? Right? Probably? Anyway, I like how they’re both vaguely smiling here. They can joke about all this, now that it’s over, Belle has been safely taken home by her brother, and the two of them are driving away from Charterstone and never coming back because explaining what happened to anyone they know is far too embarrassing a prospect to even consider. Better to make a clean break and start over in a new state with all new identities.

Garfield, 6/11/25

Today, in a very special Garfield, Odie fully grasps the concept of death for the first time. He’s not a fan!