Free Range by Bill Whitehead for October 25, 2022

Startling realizations trigger fits of “self awareness”.

Worse, they have to come up with a new punch line tomorrow.

They’ll be beside themselves tomorrow!!

Wait, you mean I’m NOT seeing these people in real life?!?!

Oh the horror.

Maybe we all are. Trapped in a cartoon and reading a cartoon about being trapped in a cartoon.

The cycle or recycle of life

Don’t be silly, the front of the panels are open to the world. I come and go all the time

She can read your thoughts, right there, in the balloons!

Before panicking, you should try to find a trap door.

Think about it, commenters, you ALL exist as comic strip characters to me. Bwa-ha-ha

welp, they’ve figured it out… wonder what the cartoonist is gonna do with them now?

Relax, you’re cartoon folks on “Free Range” which means you can come and go as you like.

When the Twilight Zone invades the comics.

No. A comic. Not a cartoon.

Groundhog Day for the Trumans

When they find the pencils and pens they can outline their escape.

We’re sunk!

That third panel should’ve had them looking out at the “camera,” AKA us!

Oh great, first reality TV, now reality comics.

At least you have each other.

You haven’t wondered why everyone was speaking in clever sound bites?

I’ve been thinking of starting a webcomic series based on this general premise, except that only one person realizes it.

Squiggly lines ? Is the newspaper written in longhand ?