Lio by Mark Tatulli for July 03, 2024

Is there another syndicate war brewing?

2 of my fave strips together XD

Not Puns on the Run delivery service? Cheap Shot Couriers?

Lio’s been Pasticized.

I was curious about the “since 1892” on the truck and found the following in Wikipedia:

“The Little Bears is an American comic strip created by Jimmy Swinnerton, one of the first American comic strips featuring talking animals and one of the first with recurring characters…”

He seems to have started drawing it in 1892 and it began appearing in the San Francisco Examiner the following year.

About time some showed up there.

I like comic mashups.

Lio before Pearls before Swine

This comic freaks me out a bit. Buuut the artwork is so amazing I keep watching.

Do you tip someone if they deliver your package to the wrong comic first?

Is Pearls adding a squid to their cast?

Is this implying that Pearls before Swine isn’t very funny, missing jokes?

The delivery driver refuses to go to PBS. They have porch pirates.

Delivery from Bob’s Big Box ’o Puns?

Yes! Yes they are! :D

I have no idea how far in the past the first anthropomorphic story is, but it predates writing and probably drawing. “There once was a giant sloth named Nkrzo who knew a dire wolf named Leon…”

Poor old Pastis sure gets beat up in other strips

Genius