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JERRY BECK (LA)
AMID AMIDI (NY)
The Sunday Funnies (12/20/09)
December 20, 2009 3:00 am


Our weekly survey of recent comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters.

Mike Peters in the Dayton Daily News.



Rob Rogers from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.



Rhymes with Orange by Hilary Price (12/11/09)



Janis & Arlo by Jimmy Johnson (12/12/09)

(Thanks, Jim Lahue, Billie Towzer and Uncle Wayne)

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Chris Garrison says:
12/20/09  9:26am

I don’t understand that last panel of that last strip. Is he thinking about himself in the third person?

 
Michael F. says:
12/20/09  9:49am

That Rhymes With Orange strip is pretty corny but I couldn’t help but laugh about it.

 
Leirin says:
12/20/09  10:43am

“Hannukah Matata”? Ah well. Lovin’ these strips, possibly even better than last week’s!

By the way, how do you guys find these comics exactly, especially in such good quality? Do readers send them in?

 
mrscriblam says:
12/20/09  10:47am

have sunday/political comics always been this tame and boring?

 
FP says:
12/20/09  10:48am

You should have featured the POPEYE comic strip in this weekly round-up. Last week, it featured the famous animation character Popeye.

 
Jonah Sidhom says:
12/20/09  11:22am

Yeah, Chris, that’s the only thing I don’t get as well. The others were pretty good though. The Clifford one is my favorite.

 
Isaac says:
12/20/09  1:44pm

Arlo might be giving a motivational speech to his cat in hopes of getting it to finish its thesis. Sometimes I wonder where cartoonists get their inspiration.

 
robcat2075 says:
12/20/09  2:08pm

I don’t get the second one. In which alternate universe does Olympia Snowe support healthcare reform? Maybe the same alternate universe where everyone wears a button on their lapel stating their name or political affiliation.

 
Slash Halen says:
12/20/09  2:48pm

Ha, Hopey. I gotta remember that one.

 
Scarabim says:
12/20/09  8:40pm

Unfortunately, Hopey and Dopey are pretty much interchangeable…

 
Andy says:
12/21/09  9:25am

Ha-ha! Political topic + pop culture reference = comedy!

At least in the lazy minds of feeble cartoonists. Syndicated “comics” are dying their well deserved death.

 
Peter H says:
12/21/09  9:32am

Should’nt the thought bubbles in that last panel be emanating from the cat?

 
T says:
12/21/09  1:38pm

These remind me of the editorial cartoons in The Onion (esp. the Snow White one).

 
Scarabim says:
12/21/09  3:12pm

By god, Peter H, you’re right! The strip makes sense now!

Still isn’t funny, though.

 
shlocko says:
12/21/09  4:19pm

wait until all the dust setles and they will get all your money to pay
for this turkey…

And what’s coming!!!!

 
Leirin says:
12/22/09  6:45pm

Scarabim: Why is that unfortunate?

 
Ann says:
01/20/10  10:29am

Rob Rogers will be appearing at the Lauri Ann West Memorial Library in O’Hara Township on Thursday, January 21 at 7 pm. He will talk about his new book “No Cartoon Left Behind.”

 
Pixar Fan 2010 says:
03/11/10  7:07pm

It’s like The Grinch switched roles with a human.

 
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