Recent Comments

1. 29 minutes ago on Red and Rover

   It may have been a regional thing. It definitely wasn’t popular in the western half of the US where I lived.

2. about 6 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   Hope that garbage bag is sturdy!

3. about 6 hours ago on Red and Rover

   911 was still decades away during this strip’s time frame- have to dial “0” for Operator.

4. about 6 hours ago on Red and Rover

   There are many wonderful, authentic Mid-Century details in this strip. But I don’t understand Red’s cuffed jeans- not a part of the 1960’s I remember- more 1950’s.

5. about 6 hours ago on Red and Rover

   Dave Berg, Mad Magazine’s eminent cartoonist (“The Lighter Side of…”) had fun with teen girls ironing their hair in the 1960’s.

6. about 6 hours ago on Pickles

   Of course they come in pairs. Opal does the laundry, not Earl.

7. about 6 hours ago on Pickles

   What else does Earl store in his sock drawer? Seriously, my sock drawer is overfilled with…socks.

8. about 6 hours ago on Baby Blues

   Smoking outside is a relatively new concept. Second-hand smoke wasn’t recognized as a serious health hazard to non-smokers for a very long time, and even when it was, it took a couple of decades for legislation to beat the tobacco industry’s lobbying.

   " ..in the 1960s and even into the 1970s and ’80s smoking was permitted nearly everywhere: smokers could light up at work, in hospitals, in school buildings, in bars, in restaurants, and even on buses, trains and planes."

9. about 7 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   That’s the joke here. Jason’s paste IS what Andy cooked for dinner.

10. about 7 hours ago on Doonesbury

    You expect a lot of premonition from a 23 year-old comic strip.