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A collection of first panels from the annuals of British girls comics such as Bunty and Mandy. All the ponies, photo stories, and boarding school hijinx you could ever hope for.

First issue of excellent Britpop-as-sorcery comicbook miniseries “Phonogram”, scanned and online for your delectation.

FoxTrot strip is going Sundays-only after the end of this year. This makes me sad, as it is one of the few genuinely funny comic strips in syndication today (Doonesbury being my other favourite).

Because all too often, the subtle humour of Marmaduke requires explaining.

Currently making me chuckle muchly is the dead-tree version of ‘Toothpaste for Dinner’ — Only ten bucks at Amazon. Here’s my favourite cartoon from the book.

“Totally dismal and excellent”

Meanwhile is a fantasticly headfucking “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style comic-book from Jason Shiga, who was responsible for the superb “Fleep” strip.

Grauniad dumps Doonesbury strip without warning as part of shrinkifying of paper. Hundreds of readers complain. 24 hours later, the features editor posts “mea culpa” in their blog comments, and says that it will return. Good for them. (FWIW, Steve Bell and Doonesbury were two of the main reasons I started reading the Grauniad when I was 15.)