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May 13, 2015
Short Story Month: Chaos rules
Henry (Short Story Month #14) They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Which is lucky for Henry, because it’ll take as many words as ...
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May 12, 2015
Short Story Month: Feminists take over the playground
Baby Blues (Short Story Month #12) Welcome to the conservative fantasy that is Baby Blues, where men are men, feminism is an insidious evil, and any deviation from ...
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May 11, 2015
Short Story Month: Ignore reality at your peril
Blondie (Short Story Month #11) If you should perchance happen to look up the definition of sanguine, you will in all likelihood discover an image of Dagwood ...
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May 10, 2015
Short Story Month: Edward Albee redux
The Lockhorns (Short Story Month #10) Comic strips, usually viewed as a relatively light-hearted art form, can on occasion bypass the comedy altogether and plum the ...
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May 9, 2015
Short Story Month: Bowel discharge as literary inspiration
Shoe (Short Story Month #9) On the comics page, the feathery residents of Shoe represent the purest form of newspaper metafiction, being as they are overworked muckrakers ...
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May 8, 2015
Short Story Month: The “War on Terror”
Garfield (Short Story Month #8) Garfield: as trenchant an examination of the mindset of the American suburban landscape as ever was. Where, oh where is Jim Davis’ Pulitzer ...
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May 7, 2015
Short Story Month: Science fact
B.C. (Short Story Month #7) Morality, thy name is B.C. Since it crawled from the primordial soup, B.C. has functioned as the ethical conscience of all comic strips, ...
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May 6, 2015
Short Story Month: Death comes for us all
Momma (Short Story Month #6) Momma, one of the bravest cartoons ever to grace a newspaper, has long served as a devastating ode to the fragility of life ...
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May 5, 2015
Short Story Month: Right-wing sedition
The Wizard of Id (Short Story Month #5) If the conservative mindset has an outlet on the comics page, it’s The Wizard of Id. Set in the fantasy ...
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May 4, 2015
Short Story Month: Vikings don’t tell
Hägar the Horrible (Short Story Month #4) There is true irony in the concept of a cartoon such as Hägar the Horrible — ostensibly concerning as it does ...
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