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We interrupt our regularly scheduled updates…for short stories!

As sad as it is for the three people following my cartoony tribute to Short Story Month (full archives here), I must interrupt with three ...

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Short Story Month: Food, sports, and sexual tension

Cathy (Short Story Month #21) There’s much bravery to be found on the comics page — the criticism of the military industrial complex that is ...

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Short Story Month: Taxes are for chumps

Sherman’s Lagoon (Short Story Month #20) And who might these mysterious “taxpayers” of Sherman’s Lagoon be? Sherman’s admission of being lax on paying his taxes is not ...

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Short Story Month: Not wearing pants was the first sign

Ziggy (Short Story Month #23) To quote the great humanitarian Charles Montgomery Burns: “Ah, Ziggy. Will you ever win?” On the comics page, the bumbling Ziggy ...

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Short Story Month: Dare you gaze into the Cockney abyss?

Andy Capp (Short Story Month #19) There’s nothing funnier than a wife-beating drunk, is there? Nope. Except: what if said individual is also an unrepentant serial ...

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Short Story Month: My Dinner with Sally

Sally Forth (Short Story Month #18) We all know that one of the most stressful events in a person’s life is hosting a dinner party. While ...

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Short Story Month: Foreplay!

Luann (Short Story Month #17) And thus we discover that rarest of cartoon topics: effective, consensual foreplay. The three panels capture a perfect moment of impending mutual ...

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Short Story Month: Very handy

Dick Tracy (Short Story Month #16) Make no bones about it: in no way does Dick Tracy exist for traditional narrative purposes. As displayed here, it is obvious ...

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Short Story Month: A bugatty devotchka goes bezoomny

For Better or For Worse (Short Story Month #15) Dude! Whazzup!? Mobility! Random words??! Awesomesauce! Droogs! Splortch!!! So far ahead of its time that reading it ...

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Short Story Month: No picture is worth a thousand words

Archie (Short Story Month #13) And so we return to Riverdale, hamlet of bitter tears, where every act disguises a perversion, every truth conceals a lie, and every witticism ...

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