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1. about 12 hours ago on Wallace the Brave

   No, Spud, you are no Saint Nicholas.

2. about 12 hours ago on Wallace the Brave

   Christmas rap or C-rap.

3. about 12 hours ago on Garfield

   She’s often too honest with him for his liking.

4. about 12 hours ago on Garfield

   RIP Marilyn Monroe (aka Norma Jean Baker) and Princess Diana.

5. about 12 hours ago on Ginger Meggs

   A much more complicated question than she realizes.

6. about 12 hours ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Unicorn!

7. about 12 hours ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   Never try to BS a BS expert like the Fink.

8. about 12 hours ago on Fred Basset

   But it is the turkeys who have died.

9. about 13 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Watterson certainly stated that he intended Hobbes to be more realistic than an imaginary friend. As you say, an interviewer did tell him that a real child may argue with an imaginary friend just as a real child might deliberately start an argument with a real friend. However, this did not change the fact that Watterson saw Hobbes as being independent of Calvin’s wonderful imagination and his quote about not seeing Hobbes as “a product of Calvin’s imagination” was made by him in The Calvin And Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book shortly before he decided to finish this marvellous comic strip and six years after he was told that some real children do argue with imaginary friends.

   As I say, he made his statement about Hobbes being “more real than any kid would make up” in 1989 – four years after he began the strip – and stated that he did not see Hobbes as “a product of Calvin’s imagination” in 1995 so his belief that Hobbes is not part of Calvin’s imagination lasted through the run of the strip.

10. about 13 hours ago on Red and Rover

    Today’s strip reminds me of my late Mum. She used to tell me that the brightest star in the sky – the one that we see when no other stars are visible – was the Star of Bethlehem. Dad once heard her call it the Star of Bethlehem and told her it is NOT the Star of Bethlehem but Sirius the Dog Star. My Mum had me christened David soon after I was born on December 15 1966 as carolers Once In Royal David’s City in her maternity ward soon after I was born.