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Mike Peterson
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Cartoons critic, history buff, retired editor, reporter, business and education writer. Amateur dog walker.
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I think our pinball wizard just scratched the 8-ball. Come view the damage, along with Christian Adams, Clay Bennett, Jack Ohman, Jeff Stahler, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Margulies, John Deering, La Cucaracha, Prickly City, Rabbits Against Magic & Steve Kelley
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CSotD: Buyers’ Regret
Bennett’s day-after cartoon would have been easy to nit-pick a year or so ago, because half of us wanted the exchange immediately while half of us were pleased, so using Uncle Sam would have been unfa...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Take a trip back 50 years for a look at holiday greetings from an all-star cast of strips on Christmas 1975.
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CSotD: Merry Christmas 50 Years Later
December 25, 1975 * — Older Strips # — Special Materials
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December 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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It's a Holiday Humpday, plus we look at a graphic novel about two daring women. Come join Daddy's Home, Dave Ostow, Frazz, Freckles and His Friends, Mads Horwath & Tyson Cole, plus Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland.
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CSotD: Holiday Humpday
We’ll let Mads Horwath represent all the strips in which kids try to be good in the week before Christmas, hoping to make up for 51 weeks of normal behavior. The idea of Santa Claus rewarding good chi...
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December 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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A closer look at Dear Leader, through the pens of Dave Whamond, Harry Burton, Jack Ohman, Jeff Stahler, Matt Wuerker, Michael de Adder, Nick Anderson & Rick McKee
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CSotD: Trumpery
There’s a lot to like in this cartoon, starting with the dim lighting that counters the bold bragging about a golden age most people aren’t seeing, and the absolute normalness of the woman and child w...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Fasten your seat belt: Reality and policies are taking some unrelated turns. Come join Barry Blitt, Dr Jack & Curtis, Greg Kearney, Joe Heller, Kal Kallaugher, Marian Kamensky, Matt Wuerker, Michael Ramirez, Prickly City & Rob Rogers
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CSotD: Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better
‘If seven maids with seven mopsSwept it for half a year,Do you suppose,’ the Walrus said,‘That they could get it clear?’‘I doubt it,’ said the Carpenter,And shed a bitter tear. As noted here the other...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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A spoonful of grinchy helps the holiday glurge go down in a most delightful way! Come join Arlo & Janis, Baby Blues, Chip Bok, Daddy's Home, Deflocked, First Dog on the Moon, Frazz, Guy Body, Pickles & Zits
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CSotD: Holiday Anecdotes and Antidotes
Christmas greetings from First Dog, who gets special placement today because he likes mince pies and fruitcake. I’ve made something of a tradition here of mocking cartoons that mock fruitcake, because...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Lame ducks, redacted Epstein files and even lamer political reasoning. A few clarifications today, with help from Cathy Wilcox, Clay Jones, Dana Summers, Ed Wexler, John Branch, Rick McKee & Steve Kelley
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CSotD: Clarifications
Donald Trump is not a lame duck. No offense to Wexler, who is just passing along the current meaning of the term, but the original meaning mattered. The term comes from before 1933, when newly elected...
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December 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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If I were holding the Epstein Files, I'd release them all right now, because the haystack of irrelevancies would smother the real things people want to know.

Same reason I didn't mind my mail and phones being followed in the 60s -- Pile it up, you nitwits. You'll never sort through it all.
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Truth or illusion? We can't tell the difference. Come explore our subjective reality, with Benjamin Slyngstad, Clay Bennett, Dave Granlund, Dennis Goris, Doonesbury, Gary Markstein, Matt Davies, Morten Morland & RJ Matson
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CSotD: Carrying on as if we did
I don’t know how many times I’ve alluded to this, but if you’re never seen Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, it’s time you did, because the question of “truth and illusion” is currently far more relevan...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Some cartoons aim to convert, others to comfort. See some of both, through the pens of Bill Bramhall, Dana Summers, Dave Pope, Dave Whamond, Jimmy Margulies, Joel Pett, John Darkow, Nick Anderson & Tim Campbell
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CSotD: Conversions and Comfortings
I had intended to run a collection of Reiner/Trump cartoons to show the depth of rejection Trump’s insane post had sparked, but Campbell sums it up. There’s not much more to be said, and the people wh...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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"We are not telling troops to disobey lawful orders. We are not giving individual legal advice. Instead, we are doing what the administration should be doing by ensuring servicemembers have access to accurate information, legal standards, and independent resources"
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Trump is threatening troops who question "illegal orders." So we're giving them lawyers.
DEFIANCE.org is launching an effort to make sure concerned servicemembers have access to the best legal advice, despite White House intimidation.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Today we offer a stochastic tranche of humpday humor. Look out your Overton Window to Arlo & Janis, Deflocked, Frazz, Kyle Bravo, Robert Leighton, Super-Fun-Pak-Comix, the Far Side, the Other Coast & Tom Toro
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CSotD: A Tranche of Stochastic Humpday Humor
I suppose if you’re going to mock the word “stochastic,” you shouldn’t use a relevant cartoon to open the discussion. I finally looked it up because everyone has been writing about stochastic terroris...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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"Reuters reported last month that Meta earns $7 billion a year just from the portion of scam ads it considers “high risk,” and that 10% of the company’s 2024 revenue ...was projected to come from ads for scams, illegal gambling and banned products."

Read the rest:
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December 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Things said, and things that might have been said but weren't. Come join Boondocks, Garth German, Jess Harwood, Michael de Adder, Mike Smith & Nick Anderson
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CSotD: Things Said And Left Unsaid
There are a lot of Rob Reiner/Pearly Gates cartoons out there, but you won’t see them here. I’m sorry he and his wife are dead, but the best I can do is refer back to John Donne yet again: Each man’s ...
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December 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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There's a lot going on. Here's a haystack, seen through the pens of Ben Jennings, Christopher Downes, Clay Bennett, Dana Summers, Ed Wexler, James Mellor, Matt Golding, Michael Ramirez, Pedro X Molina, Peter Broelman, Sean Leahy & Adrian Raeside
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CSotD: Miscellaneous Monday
Not sure what motivated Bennett on this one, but I know why it resonated with me. For some half a century, I imposed journalistic ethics on myself and did not register with a political party. Granted,...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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These are a few of my favorite rants! Come enjoy the complaints, along with Jeremy Banx, Bizarro, the Lockhorns, Mutts, The Duplex & The Flying McCoys
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CSotD: A Few Of My Favorite Rants
Let’s start with something guaranteed to offend somebody: I’m okay with death. We all die eventually and maybe my stoicism makes it easier to deal with but I can’t think of a major religion in which a...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Cheer up! We're still showing signs of life! Come look through the eyes of Ann Telnaes, Dave Granlund, Dennis Goris, Mike Smith, Paul Fell, RJ Matson, Scott Stantis & Steve Brodner
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CSotD: We’re Not Yet Warm And Dead
There is an expression within the Cold Water Rescue community, “They’re not dead until they’re warm and dead.” It comes from having pulled people out of icy water with no discernible signs of life, on...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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We're running out of excuses. They are who we thought they were. Come join Ben Jennings, Clay Bennett, Dave Brown, David Rowe, Gary Varvel, Glen Le Lievre, John Darkow, John Deering, Martyn Turner & Nick Anderson
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CSotD: They are who we thought they were
Dennis Green is gone, but his rant lives on, not because it applied to a football game, but because it continues to apply to people who look a threat straight in the eye and decide not to see it. Gree...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The world watches Australia try keeping kids off social media. Come see the process, through the pens of Ben Jennings, Cathy Wilcox, Dave Pope, Day by Dave, First Dog on the Moon, Gatis Sluka, Jess Harwood, Matt Golding, Megan Herbert & Michael Ramirez
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CSotD: Media Matters. At least it used to.
Golding offers a Banksyesque tribute to Australia’s new age limitations on social media. The first thing to note is that kids under 16 are not being banned from going on-line. Rather, as of Wednesday,...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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We'll delay Humpday to contemplate a Yahtzee, then learn about learning. Come join Andertoons, Brewster Rockit, Clay Jones, Cornered, Crabgrass, Frazz, Grand Avenue, Paul Noth, Rob Rogers, Theo Moudakis & Ward Sutton
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CSotD: Yahtzee Days and Humpdays
It happens, and I’m leading off with Clay Jones’ version because he acknowledged what is known in the trade as a “Yahtzee.” I hate it when another cartoonist does the same idea that I draw, but honest...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM