Birthday Review

It's my birthday today. If you are on Facebook and so inclined, pop over to my fan page and give me a hand with my birthday wish. It's for a good cause.

Hopefully the ravages of age will not lead to any more of the mistakes I've made the past couple of weeks.

Speaking of cognitive dysfunction, Bill Griffith may be slipping.

Zippy the Pinhead, 8/3/2010

I think I understand this one.

On the topic of aging, I have been getting into Mad Men. The new season has sets and props that are nostalgic for me, although I'm way too young to remember the type of office and sexual politics they represent.

But Office Hours, one of DailyInk's recent additions to the vintage comics (and which doesn't seem to have any kind of "about" page? Does that link work for non-subscribers?), seems to be set right in the Mad Men milieu.

Office Hours, 8/3/2010

This kind of attitude — that work is a place to find a husband — has been a theme on the show.

Taking the nostalgic tangent, we have a pretty nice homage to Calvin and Hobbes from Rip Haywire.

Rip Haywire, 8/3/2010

But back on the aging track we see that the previous Phantom (yes, Phantom, not Mandrake — I stayed up late, studied the differences, and wrote notes on the back of my hand) apparently never grew up and proposed marriage like a 4th grader.

Vintage Phantom, 8/3/2010

Proof that I haven't really grown up: "tooting" and "flammable" in the same strip still get a laugh from me.

Brenda Starr, 8/3/2010

This guy is dealing with aging poorly. So poorly that he, like Mallard Fillmore often does, forgot to tell a joke.

My Cage, 8/3/2010

Sarge has serious issues that may or may not be age-related.

Vintage Beetle Bailey, 8/3/2010

Vintage Beetle and sad and kind of scary sometimes.