Recent Comments

1. about 10 hours ago on Monty

   The “vinegar valentine” featured insulting messages, and started being made and sent soon after greeting cards were invented, in the genteel polite Victorian era.

2. about 10 hours ago on Buni

   Honk honk, why, it’s Wobbles the goose!

3. 4 days ago on Cul de Sac

   In all fairness, an eclair is a difficult thing to pass up.

4. 14 days ago on Richard's Poor Almanac

   I’ll note that is a spot-on depiction of Sir Graves Ghastly – I would have recognized him in a heartbeat even if I saw the picture out of this context.

5. 16 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   I know the feeling – our family moved out of a house I really liked to one that really was nicer, and bigger, but wasn’t the same.

6. 16 days ago on Kliban

   Maybe it’s The Fish that Shall Not be Named.

7. 17 days ago on Kliban

   I referenced a famous abstract expressionist artist who spilled paints on large canvases, but couldn’t use his name.

8. 19 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   The spinach ex machina started up pretty early in the cartoons, back in the early 30s, maybe even in the first one, a crossover with Betty Boop.

9. 20 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   The first/pilot Popeye tv cartoon “Barbecue for Two” had an odd approach – it’s like they didn’t know at that point what name they could use, and have him saying “Junior?? Don’t call me a sissy name like that! My name is ARRRGGGHHH!”

10. 21 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    That’s so accurate it’s scarry.