Category Archives: Comics

Sunday’s Best: Spice of the Season

There’s a little bit of seasonal humor in the air in the Sunday funnies.  Today’s FoxTrot is all about the spice, pumpkin spice, that is.  It’s not something that I find particularly appealing, but it’s definitely become part of culture … Continue reading

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Sunday’s Best: The World When You’re In It

Lots of fun in the Sunday funnies, but a classic Calvin and Hobbes takes the title. FoxTrot has some fun seasonal humor, with Jason trying to use tree-and-property knowledge to his advantage. Canines end up basking in a better light … Continue reading

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Sunday’s Best: Sunday Fun-Day

Quite the fun day in the Sunday comics today: There’s a great Calvinball game going on in Calvin and Hobbes, Frazz and Caulfield have an interesting conversation about wake-up times, and A math quiz reveals a serious character flaw in … Continue reading

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Sunday’s Best: Other Ways to Fail

Today’s Sunday-sized WuMo is a great reminder about planning ahead, but it’s today’s FoxTrot that reminds us of something vital in the conversation about AI in academics.

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Sunday’s Best: Summer Extensions

Lots of school and seasonal humor today.  FoxTrot points towards the fantasy in fantasy football.  Peppermint Patty tries to beat the clock with a math problem.  And Calvin?  Well it turns out that he’s the neighborhood alarm clock. But it’s … Continue reading

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Sunday’s Best: Birds of a Feather?

The Sunday funnies are high quality this week.  In today’s classic Peanuts, for instance, Sally treats her attempt at writing as a spy-like cover-up.  Then, in this week’s FoxTrot, Peter has to learn to speak Jason’s language as a way … Continue reading

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Sunday’s Best: Open for Interpretation?

A day late but rarely a dollar short with this Sunday’s best comic strip.  Yesterday’s standout was a classic Peanuts strip by Charles Schulz that challenges our assumptions on what’s going on when a dog is barking. And here’s today’s … Continue reading

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The Taste and Feel of Summer

This is why corn-on-the-cob is better than creamed corn, all year long. It’s also a great one-liner from Calvin.

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Sunday’s Best: Sunscreen Options

Today was a solid day in the funny pages.  Calvin compared bedtime fantasy with reality (and found reality wanting, of course), while Snoopy took Chuck’s newspaper request all-too-seriously. But it’s the sunscreen joke in FoxTrot that takes the top spot … Continue reading

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The Mid-Week’s Best?

I usually wait until Sunday to post links to some great comics, but I think yesterday’s comics call for an exception. First: it’s not every day that you get the word “ontological” in a comic strip.  But Calvin does, and … Continue reading

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