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  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) The Ghost Who Metas

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Phantom, 8/18/24 A fun running bit in The Phantom is that we sometimes see original Phantom creator…

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday nightmares

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Bizarro, 8/17/24 Hey, have you heard of the concept of “burial at sea?” Well, get this, what if…

  • (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024

    Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if…

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Metapost: Highway to the COTW zone

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! It’s Friday morning, and you know what that means: your comment of the week has arrived: “Folks said…

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Mmm … slop

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie, 8/16/24 This strip may on first read seem entirely incoherent, but I actually think it nicely captures…

  • ( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Failing the Empathy Exams by Sher

    In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Hi Ifran, I think I met you once — long ago. Maybe when you were just friends with Alison. I seem to recall her raving about you. This would have been the summer of 2000, just before 9/11. I just read your above p…

  • (QC RSS) It Really Happens

    This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.

  • (Policy of Truth) “Justice by Means of Democracy”

    Modesty is supposed to be a virtue. Freeriding is an expression of vice. So how could modesty lead to freeriding? Well, suppose you have bloggers so modest that they refuse to advertise their own publications. Then it’s left to me to do it for them. With that preface: PoT blogger and freerider John Davenport has…

  • (xkcd.com) Ferris Wheels

    This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.

  • (The Comics Curmudgeon) Thursday emotional roller coaster

    Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dennis the Menace, 8/15/24 Spent a long time … no, that’s a lie. I spent like 30 seconds…

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