The Thanksgiving Comic Strip Special 2008

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY! Instead of the usual comics review today I will bend these comic strips to my will so I can show what I am thankful for on this holiday week.

F-Minus 11/24/08 & 11/26/08


I give thanks for the great new humorists like Tony Carillo who make me laugh every day so that I can read all the bad comics and not hate the world for it. We need more new blood in the syndication print scene and not just on the web; if you appreciate their work as much as I do, send them emails and buy their books so they feel the love.


In The Bleachers 11/26/08

I'm thankful for football. It's gratuitously violent one moment and extraordinarily elegant the next. This has been another amazing year of college ball and it's not even over yet!


Lio 11/24/08

Cross-strip comics are another thing to be thankful for. The more horrible things Pearls Before Swine or Lio can manage to do to the Family Circus kids, the better. Cameos and practical jokes that cross from one strip to another may be easy pickings but low hanging fruit can be delicious too!


Judge Parker 11/24/08

I'm thankful for soap opera strip depictions of late night sexual liasons in hotel rooms. Oh wait that's not what's going on here? Then how about the way you can twist a single day of any soap strip to fit your own twisted purpose? That's the trick.


Gil Thorpe 11/25/08

Freedom of speech?


Basic Instructions 11/24/08

Cats? Yes I'm thankful for my noisy cats too. Of course I am also thankful for my wife, my family, health, my job - but how funny are those things?