Friday is for failure

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! Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/15/26 Oh, I had sort of forgotten that Lonnie didn’t just turn to blackmail because he was evil; he was actually acting out of financial desperation, which hasn’t gone away just because Mae Mae decided she doesn’t care about privacy, actually. Ha ha, look at him burying his face in his hands as his world falls apart around him! This scheme was his last hope! Alice, 5/15/26 Part of the whole deal of newspaper comics is that their characters are at least a little bit silly. Are they really qualified to opine on the big issues of the day? Shouldn’t they simply sit silently and learn more about all this complicated stuff from their betters on cable news talk shows? Mary Worth, 5/15/26 Tommy! No! No!! Not your beautiful locks! Please don’t take this…