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Tuesday, October 07, 2025
TOMORROW!!! Murder Podcast #1 Launch Signing with JEREMY HAUN!!!
Sunday, September 28, 2025
That darn Michael Ramirez
Chalk it up to bias [Michael Ramirez letter]
Patricia Heck, Sewanee, Tennessee
Michael Ramirez's Sept. 9 editorial cartoon, "Windy city," continued his habit of twisting reality, usually against Democrats. He implied a massive murder rate in Chicago, reflecting the Trump administration's argument for sending in the National Guard. In reality, the city's 2024 homicide rate of 21.7 per 100,000 residents ranked it eighth in a Rochester Institute of Technology report on U.S. cities, below three Southern cities: New Orleans (34.7), Atlanta (24.7) and Richmond (23). Incidentally, the rate in Los Angeles, where Trump sent National Guard troops, was 7.1.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
That darn Diamond Lil, Specktickles, Pickles and Frank and Ernest
Neither "Diamond Lil" nor "Specktickles" are in the Post print edition. So that first letter writer is going to https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/comics/ which just has the strip names and is choosing to click on and read those strips. 
(Brett Koth/Distributed by Creators)
(Bill Abbott/Distributed by Creators)
(Brian Crane/Distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication)
Cut 'Diamond.' And tell these obtuse triangles to go fly a kite.
August 23 2025
The Post has a great number of great cartoons. But the worst is definitely "Diamond Lil." The Aug. 3 strip was typically inane and insulting, both to women and to men. Day after day, the little quips and puns are just tiresome.
Second-worst — and first-weirdest — is "Specktickles," the one with all the triangular eyeglasses. Besides its ugly characters, the dialogue is contemptuous. Just look at the Aug. 2 strip.
"Pickles," on the other hand, is the greatest.
Ty Childress, Mokelumne Hill, California
Grandpa and Frank and Ernest don't seem to be trying very hard anymore
The Aug. 5 print edition was the usual report from the Bad News Bears. But unusually, there was no offset in the Comics.
Any job that has to be performed routinely under a deadline is unenviable. So even the best cartoonists occasionally swing and miss under pressure. But this collection in aggregate was the lamest in memory. Even my two favorites, "Pickles" and "Frank and Ernest," were well short of the mark. I searched diligently but couldn't muster a smile, much less an LOL.
William A. McCollam, Fairfax
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Those darn comic strips in WaPo
Free for All
Washington Post July 26 2025: A15.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/25/nvidia-gergen-texas-flood-misogyny-reagan/
Buzz off
"Dustin" portrays women as shallow, mean and rude. The strip's female characters consistently shame male characters about their weight, intellect, appeal (to women), lack of initiative, struggle with willpower and so on.
The strip also relies on the trope of men approaching women in bars and getting shot down. I find this outdated, stale and devoid of creativity. Do the writers hold a resentment toward women?
Rhona Bosin, Silver Spring
(Dan Schkade/King Features Syndicate)
A comic walks into a bar
Amid all the chaos and violence in the world today, do The Post's comics really need to regularly feature imprisonment and torture? The new "Flash Gordon" strip is written and formatted for a graphic novel, not a newspaper whose readers include children. This kind of material doesn't belong in the Comics section.
Eric Wenocur, Olney
A blight in shining armor
The July 15 "Hagar the Horrible" comic lived up to that titular sobriquet. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a medical condition that can be debilitating to those living with it, not a casual term for somebody who likes things to be clean. The Post's decision to print that strip belittles those who struggle with OCD.
Thomas V. Berry, Orlando
(Mark Tatulli/Andrews McMeel Syndication)
Ay güey, mucho mejor
Regarding the Corrections in the July 19 paper, I must say I rather enjoyed the comic "Lio" being published in Spanish for four days. It made me take the time to look up the translation, and I actually laughed more after translating than if I had read it in English to begin with. It was a nice change of pace and made me use my brain more than I usually would have reading the comics.
Mark Doty, Glen Allen, Virginia
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