'Madame, I don't know if your name is Minnie Mae or Mae Mae or what have you but I do believe someone has drawn your hand out of proportion to where your arm ought to be and it has me positively transfixed...'
'Beetle Bailey' often relies on overdramatized military humor, but this panel is based on a truth: No one in the foodservice industry would serve a peanut butter sandwich with peach jelly and regular butter already on the bread. It would be like putting mayo on pastrami...
Disney is betting on ESPN's Omar Raja to keep NBA fans tuned in to ABC as its Oscars red-carpet coverage starts, part of the company's growing focus on managing audiences around live telecasts....
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'I may have touched a nerve,' says Mary Worth, which may have led to my extremely elongated neck!
Sean Hannity says he's taking a different tack on his new podcast, which will make one of Fox News' truly signature personalities available to consumers off its traditional subscription-based platforms....
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There's nothing funny about a species self-immolating, and that no doubt informs the expression on the visage of the bird-being on the right: 'Has society really fallen apart so quickly?
Mary Worth's face says it all: 'You DO need my advice. And you're going to find out the hard way.'
Fears that Mark Trail is getting a little too close to the animals that inhabit the world around him appear to be borne out...
Who says local-news economics are cratering? Judge Parker has his mitts on a thriving daily broadsheet, chockablock with classified ads on the back page and thick enough not to get wafted by indoor breezes....
Kent Babb; Kareen Copeland; Robert Klemko; Chuck Culpepper; Tom Schad; and Ben Strauss all heading to ESPN, which is scooping up the six former WaPo sports scribes....
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Rashida Jones led a news network often accused of being too “woke.” Piers Morgan has for the last few years railed against people taking such a stance.
Now they're working together....
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One of Bill O’Reilly’s most infamous lines becomes the title of what he no doubt hopes will becomes a popular new venture.
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Jesse Welles in Port Chester NY
Every once in a while, someone still cheers for the local broadsheet....
BREAKING: Mary Worth's new cat, 'Muffin,' appears in comic for first time. Should we be concerned the feline is named for the food that Mary loves to bake and put in the oven? Hope this kitty can keep things cool....
'We expect HBO Max to essentially be shut down at the end of 2027 ' -- MoffettNathanson analyst Robert Fishman in a research note today...
More shake-ups at 'CBS This Morning,' where EP Shawna Thomas will leave as the program gets set to pursue some of the lifestyle and soft-news content it previously avoided....
Gayle King, Nate Burleson will stay with CBS Mornings even as CBS News readies strategy to make the AM program more competitive....
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Or the new Branson!
Corporate bellwether Dithers & Co. has adopted A.I. and the employees are nervous! Check out the bespectacled fellow below, whose visage turns from "What's this now?" in the first panel to "Oh, God, it's finally begun" in the second..
The makers of Chipz strike again in 'Beetle Bailey,' this time enticing consumers to gorge on empty calories with a 'resealable' bag that does nothing to thwart the lure of whatever mix of salt, sugar and forever chemicals with which its snack foods are laden...
Versant, the newest company in the media sector, is getting ready to tackle some of the most lucrative properties in the business.....
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Procter & Gamble has backed ad mascots ranging from Mr. Clean to the Charmin bears. Now it's hoping to add another one to its roster --- for weed-killer?
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You write a 3,000 word story on an eyebrow-raising industry dynamic with multiple on the record interviews with hard to get senior executives and no one says 'boo.'
You write a 300 word squib on someone's fushlugginer primetime news special and everyone yells at you on a Sunday
ABC News readies Sunday primetime special devoted to coverage of attacks in Iran, anchored by David Muir and featuring reporters stationed around the globe...
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Years-old 'Ziggy' mystery revealed as the random guy Ziggy talks to in the park while searching for something - anything - to distract from a miserable life turns out to be named Mr. Pendleton. Why is he always in the park with nothing to do but engage with Ziggy? Still unknown!
Today's 'Mutts' tribute to 'Dick Tracy' is probably better than 99% of modern 'Dick Tracy'...
'With all the angry customers around here, we like to have some fun,' says the mechanic, armed with a socket wrench in case one of those aforementioned customers tries to attack...
'Too quiet in here. Gonna turn on some tunes....' by using the vintage radio handed down to me by my ancestors, rather than my smart phone, subscription music service and mobile speakers!
