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Some readers have said that the new ad pictures in the sidebar are causing rendering problems on the site. If you are seeing these problems — or, for that matter, if you aren’t — can you email me and tell me what you see? Please include the operating system (e.g., Windows XP, Windows ME, Mac OS X, Linux) and browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape, Safari) that you’re using. If you could attach a screenshot, all the better. Thanks in advance.

Update: OK, I think I’ve fixed the problem, but keep those comments coming if you’re having trouble. Sheesh, who knew that turning the future Mrs. Curmudgeon and myself into media superstars would be such a pain? Which reminds me: if you want to be a media superstar, just buy some Comics Curmudgeon crap fine products at my lovely CafePress.com store, have a friend photograph you wearing and/or drinking out of it, and send me a digital version of the picture, and I’ll put it into rotation with the fiancée and myself. The logos should be at least vaguely legible when the photo is reduced to 200 pixels wide. I reserve the right to reject photos that are in wildly poor taste, or that depict people so much more attractive than me that it makes me look bad.

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Faithful readers, the day you’ve been waiting for pretty much your whole lives is here. Now, thanks to the good people at CafePress.com, you can purchase high-quality shirts and mugs with your favorite bizarre and incomprehensible quotes from the daily comics. First up is are t-shirts commemorating the catchphrase that swept the nation after it was bellowed at Margo, Apartment 3-G’s enslaved brunette:

Next are some shirts that salute north-of-the-border jive talk from For Better Or For Worse. If you wear this shirt, your friends and school will know that you’re no foob:

And finally, enjoy a little stimulation with your morning coffee when you drink out of a mug adorned with one of Mark Trail’s pearls of pharmacological wisdom:

Act fast if you like these: since I’m too cheap to upgrade beyond the free version of CafePress.com’s story, I can only have one graphic per type of shirt, so I will probably be rotating in new stuff as it comes up. To see what these images would look like actually on the products themselves (and, of course, to buy said products) just visit the Comics Curmudgeon store at http://www.cafepress.com/joshreads. Remember, every penny of profit goes to help pay for my bandwidth costs, and, if I cover that, to help pay for my sweet, sweet booze.

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A few weeks after I started out this blog, readers pointed me in the direction of a similar project that I had never seen before: Funny Paper, a hilarious feature that had run on the Web site of my own fair city’s weekly City Paper. Funny Paper’s tagline was “We read the comics so you don’t have to.” This was remarkably similar to the title of my blog, but since Funny Paper seemed to have stopped publishing around six months before I began my own endeavor, I figured the coincidence didn’t matter much. Well, last week I got an email from the writers of Funny Paper, saying that they felt rather proprietary about the phrase, and that their column wasn’t defunct, only “on hiatus.” So, since they were first and all, I have now changed names. Behold, the Comics Curmudgeon! You will now be able to access this blog at comicscurmudgeon.com. Of course, the joshreads.com address will still work, since nobody (myself included) can spell “curmudgeon” consistently.