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Jul 04, 2026

I hope you’re all staying hydrated as we navigate the oppressive heat—and the oppressive stupidity—affecting large portions of the country. If you’re indoors keeping cool, you might want to grab some chuckles from the cartoons and commentary in this week’s blog post.

Here in the Little Shop of Humor, I’ve been working on cartoons for mid-September and imagining cool autumn weather, assuming that’s still a possibility. The latest batch of gags involved race car drivers, a mythical creature, doctors, package deliveries, and a surrealist icon.

Looking Ahead & Looking Back

This pescatory character will also grace the funny pages in a couple of months.

Turning our Cartoon-O-Scope back to 1991, we present an item that appeared in Hyena, a short-lived humor anthology from the short-lived Tundra Publishing Company. The original art was a small acrylic painting collaged with a tiny photocopy of a Nancy comic strip.

Spectacularly Surreal Secret Symbol Shirt

The Bizarro Summer Collection in the Comics Kingdom shop includes this tee bearing a surreal landscape with multiple Secret Symbols and Magritte’s “Son of Man” self-portrait. The shop also has ladies’ V-neck tees available.

Alternate Configurations Department

The swollen, inflamed hand in Monday’s comic required a different approach for the black-and-white version. I think this one looks more painful than the color image.