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1. about 24 hours ago on Wallace the Brave

   “Can you believe I’ve never been hit in the fact with a pie before?” This is certainly a very different comic strip to Garfield.

2. about 24 hours ago on Aunty Acid

   A ghost or a CIA spook?

3. about 24 hours ago on Aunty Acid

   That certainly dates you.

4. about 24 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Cactus makes perfect.

5. about 24 hours ago on Nancy

   Does Nancy actually want Mildred to help her or is she just wasting Mildred’s time. It looks like it is the latter.

6. about 24 hours ago on Andy Capp

   By Andy’s standards.

7. about 24 hours ago on Red and Rover

   October 13th was also Margaret Thatcher’s birthday. She became Prime Minister of the UK in 1979 when I was twelve and resigned in 1990 when I was approaching my own twenty-fourth birthday. That meant that Maggie had been Prime Minister for nearly half my life. She is still the UK’s longest reigning Prime Minister as well as the first of our three woman Prime Minister’s.

   My sister’s birthday is October 29th. She shares her birthday with the fictional character Jack Reacher.

8. about 24 hours ago on Red and Rover

   Roland and Ratfink was made by De Patie-Freleng studios for United Artists rather than for Warner Bros. They were supplying cartoons for both studios at that time. There best cartoons were almost certainly their Pink Panther cartoons for United Artists.

   The “Merlin the Magic Mouse” cartoons were directed for Warner Bros by Alex Lovy from Hanna-Barbera studios and largely reflect on the Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons of that period. Nowadays, the Hanna-Barbera characters are all owned by Warner Bros studios.

9. about 24 hours ago on Nancy Classics

   Some are dated as early as 1949. There was a strip dated 1949 in which a newspaper headline read, “China Broke! Appeal to government for loan!” Someone asked whether it was Red China or Nationalist China since 1949 was the year that the Communists came to power in China. I replied that it must have been Nationalist China as the Communists would have appealed to Russia for the loan.

10. about 24 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    I agree with much of what you say. I assumed that Calvin seeing Hobbes as a living being and other characters seeing him as a doll meant that Hobbes was meant to be part of Calvin’s amazing fantasy world. As I have explained many times, I started to doubt this when I noticed that some strips show Hobbes as alive when Calvin is not with him so I started to look out for these strips and to remember them. I also started to notice that the joke sometimes is that we readers know that Hobbes has tricked Calvin but Calvin is unaware of this. I still feel that these suggest – if not actually show – that Hobbes is beyond Calvin’s imagination.