Recent Comments

1. almost 14 years ago on Lio

   I don’t know which is funnier, the comic or the attack on the cartoonist (artist?) above. Trying to compare a real world example (Vick) with a comic character (Garfield, and the artist’s use of it) is absurd. Frankly, I would have preferred Jeffery instead of Garfield getting it but I’m Canadian. For the future : looking for a good Lio/Pearls Before Swine cross-over bonanza!

2. almost 14 years ago on Lio

   woulda preferred Jeffery from Family Circus…

3. about 14 years ago on Lio

   The old octopus in the sewer joke!

4. about 14 years ago on Lio

   Love Lio, but a little distasteful coming on 9/11. Too soon?

5. about 14 years ago on Lio

   Up here in Canada, they have even banned smoking from restaurants and bars (!). Previously you could have enclosed, separated designated smoking sections but that too was eventually phased out. People were upset over it and businesses/bars said that would be the end of them, but guess what… not much difference. Since we have a nationalized health system, this saves us money in the end. Maybe all that crazy government control won’t work in the US, but it is a saner way to live. Watch someone with COPD and I dare you to smoke!

6. over 14 years ago on Brewster Rockit

   While I don’t read Family Circus anymore I do appreciate it for the fact that it was one of the 1st comics I read in the newspaper. This continues today, although I’ve moved on to Pooch Cafe, Doonesbury, Lio and Brewster. There is a need for a spectrum of comics in the newspaper so that people of all ages and comic sensibilities can enjoy this great medium. (plus, I always liked the large Saturday comics where they do the dotted line path of the kids).

7. over 14 years ago on Pooch Cafe

   First appearance of an umbilical cord in a comic! Hope the (social) conservatives in the crowd don’t try to shut this ‘deviant’ comic down. Good starting point to explain to my sons about childbirth.

8. over 15 years ago on Lio

   My impression is that Lio knows he is ‘different’. However, he doesn’t seem to be bothered that he isn’t like everyone else. And if you remember you childhood, almost all children find it difficult when they don’t fit in. I like to think that his father’s unconditional love and support have given Lio the confidence to be different which is a wonderful testament to the father. This is especially true since he appears to be a single dad. I can’t even think of another positive single dad role model in pop culture can you?>

9. over 15 years ago on Lio

   This gives us concrete evidence of a number of things:

   that his Dad is aware of his son’s preoccupation with unusual and disturbing themes that his Dad loves him nevertheless Lio understands both 1+2 by the look in his eyes