Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 13, 2021

Either kid’s gift idea sounds flabbergasting.

These two are gonna have Santa scratching his head!

Stephen Wright said he had an actual size map of the United States.

Well at least they know what they want.

I have a few complete Sunday comics pages from the early 1900s, found them at a thrift store

The pages aren’t really that big, but they are big and the comics are huge

Okay, what are the actual dimensions of the original artwork for this strip? Anybody know?

Catsup is over rated.

So is Ketchup.

What does Petey prefer to eat?

I agree, Petey!

Totally, Wrong, Pete. Nuggets without sauce? Sandwiches without mayo? Vegetables without Ranch? Hot wings without Bleu Cheese? French Fries without catsup? Prime rib without horseradish? Ribs without sauce? It would be a sadder world than it already is!

I am also condiment free

I’m from the Reagan era when school lunch catsup was considered a vegetable rather than a condiment.

Wow, is this an early Christmas present for us? Panel 1 is an extremely rare sighting of a smiling Petey with a look of happiness bordering on joy. It’s a Christmas miracle!

Naturally, I’m gonna side with My Hero here. Condiments automatically mean “foods touching each other”!

Why, even in my memory, comics were two or three times larger than the postage stamps of nowadays….

I would love the original paper, but walking out to half mile driveway to get the paper?? NO! I guess getting it digitally is good enough. And they want to know why print is dead? Tell the delivery person to deliver it to the front door. How hard is that?

Thanks to GoComics for running the Origin of the Comics which takes me back to my childhood Sundays and the Mayor of New York reading those to us via radio (quite before TV). The imagination and drawing were outrageously good.