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This week’s comic is News of the Times: Republicans Suppress the Democratic Rights of Certain Americans.
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Sadly, I suspect that voter suppression comics are going to become my third category of perennial comics. The current two categories are: Comics about mass shootings; and comics about police violence against black people. I could run re-runs of these types of cartoons just about any week of the year. Nothing changes.
This week is obviously and tragically no exception. Here’s an installment of Chagrin Falls from 2014:
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is another News of the Times: “‘News of the Times’ Bought by Beneficent Nerrex Corp.” (from 1996). (Note that my fictional all-purpose Nerrex corporation makes an appearance in this week’s comic too.)
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2005).
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That’s it. Stay safe and stay well, everybody.
Below is a picture of Otis the puppy, now six months old, sporting his new haircut.
And below that is more Tom the Dancing Bug stuff. You know what to do.
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Rb
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